Burning a movie to a cd?

Mr.Nice Guy · 21-06-2007 9:06pm #1

Hello all,

I have Windows XP and I'm trying to burn a video of mine onto a cd. Does anyone know how to do this?

I'm pretty sure I found out how to do this a few months ago but I can't for the life of me remember what I did. Google hasn't been much help either. I think there's a special way of downloading videos to a cd?

Help would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

galactus · 21-06-2007 9:17pm

Assuming you want to burn an .avi to CD* and play it on a standard DVD player you'll need Nero other buring software.

XP's built in DVD burner will only burn the avi file as data: this is OK if you have a newer (DivX) player.

Great guides for all this are at afterdawn.com

*Meant to say DVD here!!

philstar · 21-06-2007 9:32pm

but you can't burn a movie/video to cd...it has to be a DVD disc??

Mr.Nice Guy · 21-06-2007 9:55pm

When I say a movie I mean like a movie from Windows Movie Maker. One of the video files.

Isn't there an easy enough way to do this without special software?

Oman · 22-06-2007 12:00am

well if its in movie maker save it as movie, click file and then click save movie. then with whatever software u have for dvd burning it should recognise it because its a wmv file i think instead of a msmms thing or whatever it is when you save it normally

degsie · 22-06-2007 8:02am

I think what u are looking for is software to burn a video file to VCD (Video CD). Loads on guides on how to do this. Afterdawn & doom9 sites are really good.
A VCD will play on a standalone dvd player, old or new.

galactus · 22-06-2007 8:09am

philstar wrote:

but you can't burn a movie/video to cd...it has to be a DVD disc??

My bad typo.

Tom Dunne · 22-06-2007 11:44am

philstar wrote:

but you can't burn a movie/video to cd...it has to be a DVD disc??

Yes you can, it's called, a Video CD.

I have a load of Video CDs. They were big in the Far East a while back. And yes, they were perfectly legal.

degsie wrote:

A VCD will play on a standalone dvd player, old or new.

I would say that is not always the case. Video CDs are Mpeg 1, DVDs are mpeg 2. Some DVD players can't play mpeg 1.

Mr.Nice Guy wrote:

Isn't there an easy enough way to do this without special software?

Google it. I remember doing it a long while back. There's an article on Microsoft's website about it.

degsie · 22-06-2007 5:23pm

tom dunne wrote:

I would say that is not always the case. Video CDs are Mpeg 1, DVDs are mpeg 2. Some DVD players can't play mpeg 1.
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Ok so, then use SVCD which is Mpeg2

Burning a movie to a cd?

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