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It has to do with the format. Not all players will play a CD or the mpeg and AVI file formats. Bluerays will definitely not read a cd.
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The above has all kinds of how-2’s about video, software, etc.
It will take some reading, but you should find allot of information.
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You have a number of videos of different types that you want to compile into ONE big movie that you can play on a regular DVD player?
The software I use for converting a single file into a DVD iso is avi2dvd.
It works great, justs takes it a while to convert each file.
I can’t help you, since I download music from websites to cassettes. However, I read these threads with interest, since I’m curious about digitizing techniques, especially for analog materials.
Until I read this thread, I was unaware that video could be saved on CD’s.
If you need to convert it to a different format, Handbrake is where it’s at.
For burning I use Nero, but there are free alternatives out there
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.flv plays on my Total Video Player (the conversion software I use is Total Video Converter and the player came with it). .flv is associated with TVP.
.mpg and .mp3 play on my Windows Media Player by double clicking. .mp3 is audio only and that only plays a shorter clip on both players so I'll have to figure out why it didn't convert the whole sound track.
Actually I got a message on Windows Media Player that it would try .flv and .mov. It plays them, but I had to do an open with.
So it looks like WMP and TVP both will play all four.
I haven't tried to burn any dvd's on the imac yet. I got an external dvd burner for my pc, but there's a conflict with Roxio cd burner. Since I didn't want to remove that because it's so intuitive, I can't use the dvd player on my pc.
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Ok first off forget about play on blue ray,you can’t burn blue ray onto cd because of the way the burner lays down the data. To play your avi files on DVD player from a cd:
Convert avi to DVD,I use DVD Flick
Burn converted files to CD, I use Nero.
Insert Cd into player and watch.
If it doesnt work... You did it wrong or you have bad disks or you exceeded the space limit of the disk(which should produce an error before you start burning). I’m not trying to sound cute or snobbish about it but it really is that easy. If it’s not working it’s because the files aren’t in a proper format or the burn to the disk is somehow messed up. Try just the avi files with the programs I mentioned and see if that at least works and you can then work on the other file types.
Video CD is very low quality, MPEG-1. This is early 90s stuff. DVD is a bit better, MPEG-2, and any decent authoring tool can make DVDs of your content for you. If you’re on a Mac, the included iMovie will do it brain-dead easy. Not sure of the best for a PC, but there’s a lot out there to choose from.
If you want a CD with data files that can be read and played, the best standard that is most widely supported is MPEG-4 (mp4). That’s the codec that’s behind most Blu-Rays.
Then you want to find out what video file format the CD burning program wants as input.
Then you get to convert your video files to that format. The best video format converter I've used is a program called Handbrake.
I’m just completing putting a bunch of old film and VCR tapes on DVD using Windows Movie Maker - you import the raw video into the program, build your project using what ever clips you want and then convert the project to permanent form for which you have several choices including writing it to CD - if you have or can get hold of WMM it sounds like what you need....
Probably, the best hope you have is to just burn a data cd of the best compression available (mpeg4 of some sort, like divx or h.264) and hope that the dvd player will be able to read the filesystem on the CD.
My Blu-Ray player will play HD mpeg4 video from CD just fine (you just can’t fit much video on the CD). Most recent DVD players will as well.
The problem is, if you’re wanting to send someone a video, their dvd player is probably old and doesn’t support anything but a plain DVD (maybe not even a burned DVD). So you essentially have no hope at that point.
Are you saying you want to resulting media to play in your DVD player? If not, if you just want it to play in your PC, and it fits, you can record it on any media you want. If the first thing, then it’s somewhat dependent on your DVD player’s capabilities. Some of them are somewhat PC-format-aware. Mine will play audio CD’s; one time I put a CD with a bunch of photos in to see what it would do. It put up a screen of thumbnails you could navigate with the remote and offered to do a slideshow!
But seriously, if you’re just doing this to be able to use the 200 CD’s, why bother? You can replace the same GB capacity in burnable DVD’s for like $7.00!