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Best burning software for playback on DVD players?

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ArmadX

The video is currently in AVI format, and I believe it needs to be converted to MPEG-2 before it's burned onto a DVD-R disk.

Anyone know a good program which'll do the conversion and burning in one go? Any advice for burning? I haven't done it before, I'm a USB kinda guy. I know you should burn it at 1x speed to reduce the chance of write errors, and verify it after, but not much else.

Added bonus if the program is free, but otherwise I'm sure the school will pay for it

Thanks, and sorry for no giveaway this time, money isn't being very kind to me at the moment xD

Note: this is not for burning pirated films onto DVDs, this is for burning the video of a school play which I've been charged with since no-one else in the school seems to know how to use a computer.
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Gabzilla

I always used either Nero, either ConvertXtoDvd, and they both did a pretty good job.

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ArmadX

I'll have a look at them both, particularly ConvertXtoDVD

Thanks :)

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BearHugger

I second ConvertXtoDVD. Though it may need some tinkering to make it the best quality

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ArmadX

Awesome, I'll have a look through the settings and look up some suggestions if needed

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PhantomTa2

+1 for ConvertX, it's awesome. If you Google, you'll find a site that has, arguably, the best settings to use for higher quality encodes

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midnightshooter

Cotton filled with gasoline.

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ArmadX

That would burn quite well, yes

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PhantomTa2

You know, that NEVER gets old.......

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nightwolf

I've already used ConvertXtoDVD, DVDFab and Xilisoft Video Converter; All paid, but work quite well and do everything for you. After all, DVD authoring can be quite... complex.

Off all of those, ConvertXtoDVD was totally the simpler one. Add the input, click 'start' and you are pretty much done.

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ArmadX

I'll have a look at them all, especially ConvertXtoDVD since I've heard it mentioned a couple of other times, and I believe it has a trial :)

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Cyowolf

DVDFlick Has worked fantastically for me before, as I had to burn some HS basketball games to DVD for my Dad. It's free too.

It'll also convert files to the proper format as well. Here's an article for the how-to.

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ArmadX

Thanks, and it's free too, awesome :D

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Bondiablo

It's been a while since I made any DVDs but this was always my go to site. You can find/learn anything you'll ever need here.

http://www.videohelp.com

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ArmadX

Thanks I'll have a look :)

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MartDrummer

DVD Player?
Ancient technology? o.0

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ArmadX

Yeh I know, apparently some people still have them :O Must be relics or something

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DrPavelImCIA

It seems you don't either.

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ArmadX

I'm sorry for not knowing about burning DVDs, something I have never needed to do before in my life, seeing as they are, as MartDrummer said, "ancient technology" :)

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Jokke88

Go with ConvertXtoDvd, its as simple and fast as you can get it.

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ArmadX

Think I will, thanks :)

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Hanneman213

Recode with ConvertXtoDVD and burn with imgburn.

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ArmadX

Why not burn with ConvertXtoDVD?

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fecske

i'm using Nero 8 Lite version for burning, a bit old but still rocks ...

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