i have a bunch of video files that i want to burn to a dvd. i want to the dvd to be readable by a simple dvd player but im not really sure what the format of the files is supposed to be. can someone point me in the right direction here thanks in advance
DVD Flick is free and will burn your file's using IMmgBurn but what running time are they? You can put about 3 hour's on a regular DVD but quality is going to suffer, about 2 is usually all you want, and you want good quality file's to start with: http://www.dvdflick.net/guide/index_en.html Another guide just to look over, a little more detailed: http://beginwithsoftware.com/videoguides/dvd-flick-guide.html
one more thing when using dvd flick can i put more than what it indicates on the right bar onto a disc and will the quality of the videos be worse if i put more videos on the dvd?
Not familiar with DVD Flick so someone else will have to answer but if you mean the percentage of disc used on the left, probably not. Anytime you put more video's on a disc, quality will drop unless they're short, say music video's or burned as data, I'd stay with 1 movie to a disc and even then, try to start with good quality material. (for example, I won't bother with torrent's in cam or ts form. If not familiar with Bittorrent, ignore this).
its just that whenever i put about and hour of video on the dvd it says the dvd is full. and these videos are about 150 mg a piece( after about 3 of them it says the dvd is full)
It doesn't matter what size the video is, it's solely running time but more than 1 1/2 hour's should fit. Another is Avi2dvd but not familiar with it either. Probably the best 1 step program is ConvertXtoDVD but it's payware and the trial leave's a watermark in your video.
You can add video as data until the DVD is at the 4.3 G mark to fill it but runtime is alway's the consideration when converting to achieve as much quality as possible. Video runtime is alway's equated to the Bitrate used to convert the video and a video can only have as much Bitrate as a DVD will accept (4.3 G unless Dual Layer). The Bitrate can be lowered to fit more video but quality will suffer. Bitrate = quality and also converted video size, the higher the Bitrate, the bigger the converted file will be or too much Bitrate and the converted video won't fit a regular DVD. I suppose the Bitrate could be lowered to fit several converted regular video's on a DVD but the result wouldn't even be viewable on a pc. Your 1 1/2 hour's may be due to a "best" quality setting, you might want to look into getting a DIVX capable player and burn avi as data too, no converting but no one without the proper player will be able to see them except on a pc.
