Hi! I Have A Stupid Newbie Question..

[kac99]

i just downloaded a movie & want to transfer it to cd-r, on the computer is a cd burner but no dvd burner. what do i need to do next? if i get nero, will it convert the movie & burn it to cd-r ? is it a user friendly program?
does anyone have another program they prefer?

thanks in advance

k

[[B][O][T]]

Nero is the best, and it's easy to use.

will it convert the movie

Do You want to burn the movie as a SVCD? Yes Nero can do that.
Or You could just burn the movie as a data cd.

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[kac99]

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is there much difference between burning to svcd vs data cd?

k

[[B][O][T]]

Do You have a DVD player that can play SVCD?
Where do You want to watch the movies? On Your computer?

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[kac99]

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on the dvd player for the tv

k

[[B][O][T]]

Then You should burn it as a SVCD (Super Video CD) or Video CD.

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[Tinny0001]

Careful, if it's a divx movie it might not work and converting from avi to mpeg(vcd format) takes time unless u have a very fast comp.

[superdude]

heres what i understood about downloading movies, (im a noob yep)

1. download (its not duh, its were it all starts&#33

2. the file, just take it to nero and choose vcd or svcd. (btw whats the diference between these 2? and my dvd player i dont think it reads any cd-r, but it reads dvd-r, wtf is going on here? also on the dvd screen thingy, u can slightly see how there are displays for mp3, vcd, and dvd. But i never use other than dvd originals and some burned. ussualy rentals.)

3. wait for the file to be burned.

oh yeah what if the file is .avi? and i got another problem. there are some other movie formats like asf and shit. i got a movie of those and it plays and u cant forward! and tehres this really long comercial part and i want to forward, ive never really been patient enough to get it seen!!!

i suppose, burn in lowest speed, i dont want any stupid buffer underruns, shit ive lost like 1000 cd's in that stuff.

and should i use a reg. cd-r or do i got to buy a special cd for video or such.

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[ZLOsiris]

Ahh i appreciated ur question iam a noob when it comes to burning movies ..... still working on it .... my problem is fitting them on a disk...iam looking for a program that can split the movies into and burn them cdr ..... most newer dvd players play cdr.

[THE DUDE]

Originally posted by ZLOsiris@8 July 2003 - 03:42
Ahh i appreciated ur question iam a noob when it comes to burning movies ..... still working on it .... my problem is fitting them on a disk...iam looking for a program that can split the movies into and burn them cdr ..... most newer dvd players play cdr.

oh yeah what if the file is .avi? and i got another problem. there are some other movie formats like asf and shit. i got a movie of those and it plays and u cant forward! and tehres this really long comercial part and i want to forward, ive never really been patient enough to get it seen!!!

I don't know if any one program will do all that.
but you could use TMPeng or M2EDIT Pro to cut the movie in half.
i use nero to burn but there tons program that will do what you want.

Superdude

If the file is a different format other than MPEG-1(VCD) or MPEG-2(SVCD) u can get you need a program that converts the file format.