burning movie files from Computer to DVD

Ok I FINALLY got me a DVD burner, but it's not dual layer, and I got a bunch of movie files i wish to burn, but I heard to burn them without a dual layer drive, I need to compress them, I have Nero, but I need help on the compressing part, i am confused there.

 

You need DVD Shrink, to compress the files, so they fit on one disc.
Good luck!

As you can see, the words DVD Shrink are underlined. Click on it to go to the page to download it.
Enjoy.........

 

check out the guides I have listed in my sig if you need help.

 

ok, I have DVD shrink, so i just use that, pick my file, compress itg, burn?

 

ok, all my movies are on my F:\, or my external hard drive,
problem is this, I try to open them, and i get this message: "DVD Shrink encounters an error and cannot continue. Failed to open file "F:\Movies\Beavisandbutthead\VI(DEO_TS.IFO" The system cannot find the file specified."

 

Are you reading the guides before starting :

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd9_to_dvdr_with_dvd_shrink.cfm

or the ones squizzle listed :

Newbies------>http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/183136
ScubaPete's guides------>http://www.dvdplusvideo.com/tutorial007.html
Bbmayo's guides------>http://home.comcast.net/~bbmayo/index.html

 

where did you get these files? Sounds like you only have VOB files or you have corrupted IFO files.

 

I downloade them, I think it's becuase I have no VIDEO_TS directory, can anyone tell me how to make one?

 

Here's a picture of how the structure should look. You'll have a different number of VOB files and they'll be numbered differently, but basically you should see IFO and BUP files with the VOB kinda like I have. If you don't see them then the DVD won't work and you'll need to make them. We can help with that too if need be.

 

all i have are movies I downloaded, and they are just .avi, .mpg, .asf

and on DVD Shrink, I click on "Open Files" and I try to select a folder which holds them movies, but I get that error message I posted earlier, can someone help me on JUST opening the files from my computer to DVD Shrink, i already know how to do the "Open Disc" I just want to burn movies I have on my computer to DVD, that's all, my DVD burner isn ot dual layer, so I guess I have to compress it first, but yeah, the message ocmes up when I try to "Open Files" option, please don't tell me how to do it with a DVD, I already got the movie on my computer, please, just tell me how to burn it to DVD, I am really confused....
Thanks.

 

I do not know how you get all them VOB files and such, I just got one .asf file, which is just the movie, and I want to burn that to DVD

 

your movies are not in DVD format. You will need to convert them. There are many programs available for this, WinAVI, AVI2DVD, DivxtoDVD (which is what I use).

 

that's my VIDEO_TS directory, when I click OPEN FILES and select that folder, all I get is a 2 second clip of nothing, and it says "Demo Version, go to dvdsanta to buy full version" that's what it say when i play the 2 second clip

in the little black box it says that, something like "Buy full version of dvdsanta for only $29.99 @ dvdsanta.com" but it won't show when i take a screenshot

 

that's my VIDEO_TS directory, when I click OPEN FILES and select that folder, all I get is a 2 second clip of nothing, and it says "Demo Version, go to dvdsanta to buy full version" that's what it say when i play the 2 second clip

in the little black box it says that, something like "Buy full version of dvdsanta for only $29.99 @ dvdsanta.com" but it won't show when i take a screenshot

 

http://www.freewebs.com/marioman11/g.jpg
that's my VIDEO_TS directory, when I click OPEN FILES and select that folder, all I get is a 2 second clip of nothing, and it says "Demo Version, go to dvdsanta to buy full version" that's what it say when i play the 2 second clip
http://www.freewebs.com/marioman11/cd.jpg
in the little black box it says that, something like "Buy full version of dvdsanta for only $29.99 @ dvdsanta.com" but it won't show when i take a screenshot

now i couldnt shrink thep ics anymore without being unable to read um, but still to big for this, so go to the link.

 

I went to the links but they both took me right back to this thread.

I've heard good and bad about DVD Santa. You can do a search for it here and get a free trial of it if you'd like, but it's gonna leave its logo on your movies.

I'd suggest going with divxtodvd, they offer a free trial. The best thing about that program is its simplicity and it will do MPEG, avi, and wmv formats, probably some others too. Most other programs only do 1 format or so.

 

ya, so i should uninstall DVDSanta?

 

files in my VIDEO_TS folder are: Beavis and Butthead Do America, which is a .asf file, VIDEO_TS.IFO, VTS_01_0.IFO, VTS_01_0.VOB, VIDEO_TS.BUP, and VTS_01_0.BUP, soo how do I make my movie, Beavis and Butthead into a DVD? Because I mean, whenever I open that folder (VIDEO_TS) in DVD Shrink, all it brings up is a 2 second lcip of nothing but black and top left says "Demo Version" bottom rightsays "Get the full version for only $29.99 @ dvdsanta.com"

 

so ya, can someone help me open the movie in DVD Shrink?

 

Ok I got ya now, I used DivxToDVD, problem is, I used trial version, and it put it's logo on it, is there a free converter i can use, that won't put a logo on it?