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Gear / Technical Help => Post-Processing, Computer / Streaming / Internet Devices & Related Activity => Topic started by: JasonSobel on February 09, 2011, 12:01:59 PM
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I've got a couple of m4v/mp4 files that I would like to burn to a regular DVD. I'd like to do this to be able to watch using a regular DVD player.
Any good software recommendations for this? The m4v/mp4 files have chapters, and while it would be nice to keep them on the DVD, it's not really necessary.
Thanks.
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The spec for a DVD to be played in a DVD player is standard definition video only 720 x 480 (not HD)and also must be an Mpeg-2 with either PCM audio or dolby digital(Ac3).You'll have to convert your files to mpeg-2 with proper audio.You can do this with the freeware.MPEGSTREAMCLIP,You can get it here.
http://www.squared5.com/
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will that software create a VIDEO_TS folder with VOB files (and all other files needed)? Or is the output just an mpeg-2 file? If so, how do I then burn the mpeg-2 file to DVD?
thanks for the suggestion.
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windows or mac?
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Just tried sone mp4 files in mpeg streamclip and it doesnt like them so forget i mentioned it.
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windows or mac?
Windows.
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TMPGEnc 4.0 XPress.
It will do everything you need to do.
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Try convertXTODVD. May work.
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Before you burn a DVD *VIDEO* disc, see if your DVD player will read a mp4 or m4v file from a DVD *DATA* disc. Mine does.
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Thanks for the suggestions everyone, though through my own searching, I came across DVD Flick:
http://www.dvdflick.net/
It seems to do everything I need, and it's freeware. I'm encoding the first one as I write this.
Before you burn a DVD *VIDEO* disc, see if your DVD player will read a mp4 or m4v file from a DVD *DATA* disc. Mine does.
That's good to know that some regular DVD players will play a mp4/m4v files from a DVD data disc. However, it's not something I can test. I don't even have a regular DVD player hooked up anymore. instead, I have a small Dell Zino computer, hooked up to my TV via HDMI. Most of the time, I just watch/listen to files stored on my 7.5 TB's of hard drives hooked up to it (or stream online). sometimes, though I use the DVD drive to watch movies. anyway, because it's a computer, of course it will read/play from a DVD data disc. But I'd like to burn DVD-Video discs for a friend, who is less tech savvy.
I'll report back with how DVD Flick works out.
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in case anyone else is interested, "DVD Flick" worked, but with 2 issues.
1) The video files I am starting with are widescreen, and the DVD made with DVD Flick is 4:3. Thus, everything is distorted (i.e. people look very skinny), because the screen proportations were changed. I can't find any option to change from 4:3 to the 16:9 widescreen, so I'm out of luck.
2) It took 11 and a half hours on my computer at home to convert the mp4 file to a set a files in a VIDEO_TS folder that was ready to burn. This is most likely not a fault of the program, however, and more of a result of my 8 year old desktop at home.
So, after a bit more looking around, I came across "DVDStyler". I put this on my work computer (quad core Xeon W3530 with 12gigs of RAM), and I can convert the same mp4 file to a DVD image (.ISO file) in about 20-25 minutes. Also, it lets me choose 16:9, so the end result looks much better as well.
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So, after a bit more looking around, I came across "DVDStyler". I put this on my work computer (quad core Xeon W3530 with 12gigs of RAM), and I can convert the same mp4 file to a DVD image (.ISO file) in about 20-25 minutes. Also, it lets me choose 16:9, so the end result looks much better as well.
I just read this, thanks for the tip. Encoding some mp4s now, thanks again.