What software will turn computer video into DVD playable video?

[Testosterone boy]

I have a wedding ceremony on a hard drive. The host machine crashed and I cannot get the video unto a DVD with the host machine.

I can hook the hard drive up to a computer and burn a DVD. But the DVD will not play on a console (TV viewable) DVD player.

There should be software that installs something that a console DVD player will recognize.

 

[puddlemonkey]

I use DVDshrink and DVDencrypter

 

[p0ink]

ok, what format is the video currently in?

 

[Testosterone boy]

ok, what format is the video currently in?

Where you been? Working for www.ronpaul2008.com I hope.

I know almost nothing of the involved lingo. I used a firewire to get the video from a camcorder unto the hard drive.

When the host hard drive/DVD player worked, it would install the needed code to make the DVDs playable on home console (TV) units.

Hope that helps.

 

[p0ink]

what are the file extensions of the video files you transferred over? .vob? .avi? .mpg?

 

[Testosterone boy]

what are the file extensions of the video files you transferred over? .vob? .avi? .mpg?

.vob

I also have an mpg I'd like to transfer. I don't like to watch video on a computer.

 

[The Shadow]

I have a related question:


what software will allow DVD with other country codes to play in US DVD Players??

 

[Testosterone boy]

I have a related question:


what software will allow DVD with other country codes to play in US DVD Players??

I do not know about software at all. There are 'region free' dvd players on ebay for cheap however.

I hear you can make some DVD players region free with your remote if you have the knowledge. My repair tech thinks he can do that anyway. maybe he just wanted the remote. We shall see.

 

[p0ink]

ok, here are the answers to both questions.

t-boy, if your files are *.vob, *.ifo, etc. you should be able to use any dvd authoring program to write the dvd.

all you would have to do is use an option (like in clonedvd2) like 'author dvd from existing data, and pick the directory those files are in (they should be in sub folders like VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS). this will burn the disc so it will be recognized and played on any standard dvd player.

as for the mpeg file, if it is in xvid or divx format, you can just burn it to disc like any other data file and pop it in your player to watch (so long as you have a dvd player that supports divx or xvid files - and most new players do.

shadow - AnyDVD will remove region codes which *SHOULD* make it playable on your player / tv. however, if the disc is in PAL (european standard) or SECAM (asian and african format) format, as opposed to NTSC (the format used in north america, japan, korea, etc), it will not read / display correctly unless you have a player that supports PAL, SECAM, and NTSC.

finding a region free dvd player is pretty easy. hell, i just picked up a RCA player at office depot for $50 - $30 rebate - $20 coupon = $0 that is region free and plays divx and xvid videos.

 

[p0ink]

taking off the region protection will get you nothing if the disc is in PAL format and your player is NTSC only.