Burning Movies

[kharley]

I want to burn some movies I downloaded to a DVD to play on my tv and was wondering if I have the right hardware and disk. I have a ASUS CRW-4824 AH CD Rom, I have a ATAPI DVD A DH20A4P USB Recorder, I have a sony DVD RW DRU-710A Writer. I bought maxwell DVD+R 4.7 GB 16X 2hrs SP mode disk the disk has RW on them also. I would like to know if I have the right stuff or do I need something totally different and are those the right kind of disk, Thank you.

[Jason [WS]]

from the description, looks fine.
in case that what you downloaded are AVIs or some other compressed media format, you should search for programs which can "recode" them to DVD-Video state. just like in say Nero, you can create Audio CDs from MP3, because it "recodes" them and writes the CD as Audio.

now, you may be in luck, and maybe your home cinema or w/e is smart enough to play compressed formats too, without the need for you to recode.

wish I could suggest some programs, but this is definitely not my field of interest and I've no experience.

[kharley]

I tried burning them a couple of times but they wouldn't play on my home DVD, I was told to convert them to DVD and then burn but they still wouldn't play. I have never done this before so I guess i'm doing something wrong, I just dont want to waste a whole thing of disk trying to figure it out. I was just hoping someone could tell me step by step in dummy terms how to do it, maybe someone will have some advice Thank you.

[Chippychap]

Hi Kharley, I couldn't use Nero et al.
I use ConvertXtoDVD and it is brilliant.
It really is a couple of buttons to work AVI in and DVD out.
Give it a go mate, it REALLY did it all.

[lipripr]

The one thing I see that you may be overlooking is that even using ConvertXto... you still need to tell it which region to code it for your stand alone DVD player.
There is a box in there that allows you to choose PAL or NTSC. PAL is Euro and NTSC is for the US.

[kharley]

Thank you all for all your help used the convertxtodvd worked perfect thank you.

I have another question if you dont mind, I have downloaded windows me for a antique computer for my husband to use instead of mine he crashed the old one but it wont take the restore disk anymore. I downloaded windows me sense thats the original windows but I dont know how to burn it to make it boot to the computer when I restart it. I would appreciate any help you might be able to give sense you solved my other problem, Thank you.

[Jason [WS]]

OK, from my experience, neither Win98 nor WinMe come as bootable CDs.
you should make a clean install, that's the healthy way to go..
(clean install -- destroying all data on your hard drive.)
unless there is important data on the PC which has to be preserved.
anyway here goes assumption..

case (1) -- good if you're doing a clean "from scratch" install
- you downloaded WinMe as ISO.. which means it ought to be bootable.
you burn the image with Nero to a CD.. select "Burn Image" entry in the SmartStart.
- then, you should be able to start up your computer with it.

case (2) -- a bit tougher
- you downloaded WinMe as archive. you have to decompress it, using WinRAR, WinZip, 7-Zip or whatever else can handle it.
- download a bootdisk.. you will have to make a floppy so that you can install WinMe from the CD you'll be burning it to.
http://www.arrayservice.com.br/download/index.php?dir=8%20-%20Utilitarios%20de%20Boot/Disco%20Boot/&file=boot98se.exe

http://vcic.com/vault/bootme.exe
any one of the above should work fine.
- burn WinMe as is to a CD, and make the bootable floppy.
- start the computer with the floppy, and use the CD. change drive to D:\ (supposing that's your CD-ROM drive letter), change to the folder of WinMe on it, and start SETUP.EXE:
D:
cd winme
setup.exe

whatever happens, come back and let us know.

EDIT: also, when the PC boots, check in the BIOS (get in by hitting Del, F1 or F2 or whatever it needs) that it can boot from the CD, i.e. it has the CD drive in the bootlist, among with the floppy drive and hard drive.

[lipripr]

Nicely done Jason... rep for you!

[Jason [WS]]

TBH it bothers me a bit that kharley didn't return with a response, yet.
oh well let's hope for the best.