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MasterJedi
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14 Feb 2011, 9:04 am

how do you make a dvd from a movie you have on your computer so it is playable on a DVD player?

For example, if I ripped a copy of The Bourne Identity onto my computer and the disk is now destroyed through neglect or 3 1/2 year old kids, how can I put it back onto a blank DVD -/+ R?


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14 Feb 2011, 10:27 am

MasterJedi wrote:
how do you make a dvd from a movie you have on your computer so it is playable on a DVD player?


A lot of hardware video players (i.e. DVD players) will play MPEG2 files, and will make a simple menu of all the files on any DVD or CD put in them. Some will also play specific versions of DIVX / XVID / MPEG4. If your player is one of these, then you just copy the file onto a DVD and call it .mpg or .vob - most players can play file01.vob and file02.vob without a break if you need to split a big file.

Avidemux is a good tool for cutting, joining and re-encoding files. If your film is now an mp4, then you can turn it back into a DVD-compliant MPEG2.

If your player does not handle un-mastered discs, then you will need some DVD mastering software - Dvdauthor makes single-title discs without needing complex menu designs. Kdenlive or k3b or many other tools will let you design menus with still images, animated backgrounds, multiple titles, chapters and all the other stuff.