Best Format to Convert to for DVD Burning

Discussion in 'Video to DVD' started by fdates, Jul 5, 2012.

  1. fdates

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    I'm using Wondershare AllMyTube to capture a video found on YouTube.

    The video was on Cancer, and I want to share this with a friend who has Cancer.

    Wondershare provides several formats that I can convert to.

    I want to make a DVD from the video downloaded that can play on his tv's DVD player.

    I converted to DVD-Video NTSC which created a single VOB file. I was able to play this file using VLC media player so I assume it is a good conversion.

    Then I tried to create a DVD from that file using Ashampoo Burning Studio 10. It kept saying "The folder 'E:\TV VIDS\VOB' doesn't contain valid DVD-Video files.". It contains the single VOB file.

    So I used DVDFab 8 to convert this single VOB file into a DVD folder that contained a AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders. The VIDEO_TS folder was the only one that actually contained any files (BUP, IFO and several VOB files).

    I then used the VIDEO_TS folder of files to create a DVD using Ashampoo.

    That was a lot of steps. Converting downloaded Youtube to VOB and then again to several VOB's including BUP and IFO before I could burn it to a DVD using Ashampoo.

    Would I have been better off converting to AVI, or MPEG-2, or MP4, or ????

    So many formats that I'm not sure what would be best to do.

    Suggestions please?

    Thanks.
     
  2. xboxdvl2

    xboxdvl2 Regular member

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    easier way to convert to dvd would be dvdflick.a few clicks and a bit of waiting and your done i know it does avi to dvd and mp4 to dvd not sure what other formats its supports.
     
  3. fdates

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    Thank you xboxdvl2. :)
     
  4. ps355528

    ps355528 Active member

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    fyi .. standard dvd's are mpeg2 .. so if you have mpeg2 files you don't need to convert them to anything else and can just author them.. saves some time.
     

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