I am getting ready to take a driving trip with my family. I would like to be able to play movies on a portable DVD player for the kids. I understand copying DVD movies with DVD Cloner, etc., but these are various movie files downloaded from an online torrent site and include .mpg, .avi, .mp4, .mov, and .mpeg files. How do I burn these various files to a DVD-R (preferred) or a DVD+R so that they will play in the car? I have the VLC media player that seems to play most of the files. I also have Nero 7 and a couple more players, etc. I am currently using Windows XP, SP3. What do I do to get car-ready disks?
You can use dvd flick (freeware) to convert most of what you may d/l to dvd compliant, and you can burn with nero, or my favorite imgburn to dvd disks.
Thanks for all of the suggestions. Obviously, once I a few attempts at burning DVD's many of my previous questions were answered (such as the format to burn to - yes, DVD Flick takes care of all of those decisions and the included "ImgBurn" does the rest}. I am surprised at the time it takes to encode the average avi movie file to the DVD format. If the movie is 1:25, the encoding seems to take about the same time and the burning takes a bit more. I was using one computer to encode and another to burn but the encoding machine was a Pentium 2 with 1 GB memory and the burning computer a Pentium 4 with 2 GB. Would a newer PC speed things up? A second problem area was where to find reliable files to download. Some downloads came with different movies in the file, some came via Video Cameras taken in to the theater (obvious by a person walking past the camera while it was recording), while many files were either in the .mov format or were such poor copies that they were unusable. One last question - the .mp4 files. I assume they were meant for an iPod and not a portable DVD player since the images were much smaller than my 10" screen.
