Video to DVD

tommo · 12 Aug 2018

Need help,when I copy a video from my video folder to a DVD I cannot play it on my DVD player,the videos are .MOV, .MP4, .AVI, .3PG format is there anything I can do to solve this,i'm using a windows 10 PC

dalchina · 12 Aug 2018

You need a DVD authoring program in general. That creates you the title page, chapters and puts everything into a format your DVD player can understand.

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MozartMan · 12 Aug 2018

tommo said:

Need help,when I copy a video from my video folder to a DVD I cannot play it on my DVD player,the videos are .MOV, .MP4, .AVI, .3PG format is there anything I can do to solve this,i'm using a windows 10 PC

First, you need to look in the manual to see if your DVD player supports playing media files from data DVD.

Second, does your player have USB port?

If not, I am 99.9% sure the your DVD player doesn't support this feature and you would need to buy at least Blu-ray player with USB port and just use flash drive or external HDD. You will not have to waste time to burn media files to DVD.

MozartMan · 12 Aug 2018

dalchina said:

You need a DVD authoring program in general.

OP will have to spend a lot of time to re-encode all those video files to MPEG2 format.

tommo · 12 Aug 2018

Thanks,yes my DVD player has a USB port

Bree · 12 Aug 2018

MozartMan said:

OP will have to spend a lot of time to re-encode all those video files to MPEG2 format.

No, any DVD authoring program does that for you. I use DVDStyler (the Portable Apps version). You just include any *.mp4, *.avi or whatever in the DVD you want to make, and DVDStyler re-encodes them for you on the fly when you burn the DVD to a disk or an ISO file.

MozartMan · 12 Aug 2018

tommo said:

Thanks,yes my DVD player has a USB port

Good. Take a USB flash drive, format it with FAT32 or exFAT, and copy those video files to your flash drive.

You DVD player should 100% play MP4 file, may/may not play MOV, AVI, and 3GP files. You need to look in the manual for supported formats.

MozartMan · 12 Aug 2018

Bree said:

No, any DVD authoring program does that for you. I use DVDStyler (the Portable Apps version). You just include any *.mp4, *.avi or whatever in the DVD you want to make, and DVDStyler re-encodes them for you on the fly when you burn the DVD to a disk or an ISO file.

And you lose quality.

Bree · 12 Aug 2018

MozartMan said:

And you lose quality.

Depends on how much you try to put on the DVD...

DVDStyler chooses the compression factors to fit the videos onto the DVD making full use of the available space. If you only make a short DVD then there is no loss of quality, as you put more and more videos onto the DVD the compression is adjusted to make them fit.

MPEG2 is larger than the equivalent quality in mp4, so you can't put as much on the DVD if you want to make one that will play in any standard DVD player, but until you try to make the DVD hold too long a video the quality won't be lost.

MozartMan · 12 Aug 2018

Bree said:

Depends on how much you try to put on the DVD.

It's not just the issue of how much.

Look at this image:

Relations between ISO Base Media File Format, MP4 File Format, 3GPP file format and 3GPP2 file format. Based on the 3GPP2 technical specification published on 18 May 2007.