DVD Burning help

[TheMail]

Hey, so I'm interested in burning files to a DVD that can be read across the board on all dvd players. Since I'm new to North America, I'm not too sure how Region 1 DVD's work, anyone care to lend me a hand?

Also, what are some good programs to do so with? Money isnt really an issue so it's alright if the program costs money.

[dalekphalm]

Hey, so I'm interested in burning files to a DVD that can be read across the board on all dvd players. Since I'm new to North America, I'm not too sure how Region 1 DVD's work, anyone care to lend me a hand?

Also, what are some good programs to do so with? Money isnt really an issue so it's alright if the program costs money.

What kind of files are you wanting to burn?

 

What kind of players? (DVD Readers in computers, or Set-Top DVD players?)

 

If you're wanting to burn video to the disc to play on any set-top dvd player, then the only sure thing would be to transcode all your video to MPEG-2 video. It's the only video that is guaranteed to work on all players. Most players support newer stuff like divx AVI files or even h.264 (mp4/mkv), but video codec support varies wildly between different DVD Player models.

 

You're really gonna need to give us more information on what exactly you're trying to do. We need as much specifics as you can.

[Sors]

With burned discs, there are no region restrictions, and pretty much 99% of all DVD players will read -R and +R discs.   So all you need to worry about is rendering the video files in the right format, I think Nero burning rom has the option to make video DVDs from video files.

[EChondo]

ImgBurn.

 

All I use to burn ISO's, works perfectly.

[Prince32780]

If you burn a dvd yourself there aren't generally any region restrictions, you'd have to put them in.

 

I use DVD Flick, it's very simple to use, and I've had no compatibility issues so far.  http://sourceforge.net/projects/dvdflick/

Used the discs on atleast 10 different dvd players from the cheap 40 dollar ones to 300.

 

 

Here's a description:

 

DVD Flick aims to be a tool to convert various PC video formats to a DVD that can be played on pretty much any standalone DVD player. Its main target audience is people who know at least the basics about DVDs and video and audio files.