Note to self… Burning a DVD

Monday, 23 March, 2015

Part of a note to self…. I wanted to burn a DVD of an mp4 i had downloaded and started looking around for an easy and quick way to do this. And you’d have thought it would be simples…. but no! Which surprises me because all you need to do is transcode the video in to mp2, create the DVD file directory structure and then burn to the disc. All things for which there is open source software. So after some false starts with Infracorder, cdrtfe and ImgBurn and, after a little bit of DuckDuckGoing, I ended up coming back to Windows DVD Maker which… errrrr… didn’t quite work!! A couple of gotchas….

1. It doesn’t work with mp4…. so I quickly loaded TEncoder and converted it using the DVD_Player_avi settings, but changed the audio codec to Wmav2

2. When I burnt the disc - there was no audio!! A quick DuckDuckGo later and this page was useful. In short, try using WMA audio instead of AC3 (hence the point above) and then TURN OFF any filters. To do this click on “Options” (bottom right of DVD Maker screen) and go to the Compatibility tab and untick the “AVI Decompressor”.

Once I had done this things worked perfectly. As with much in the Microsoft (and Apple!) world, if you do it their way it works well.

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