It is some years since I made DVDs which could play on an ordinary domestic DVD player as well as PC, and have forgotten the software to use, and how best to do it.
Any thoughts or recommendations? Free is good, as ever. Files I want to burn include mp4, avi and mkv. These are films. Using W10 32 bit and ordinary 4.7GB DVDs.
YWes, ImgBurn is excellent - does what you want and no more, and does it extremely well. I do not often burn CDs/DVDs under windows but that is the one I always use.
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IIRC it tries (or used to try) to install a couple of spurious extra 'browser toolbar' type applications as part of the installation process - a way for the author to try and get a few bob back. If you pay attention and don't just randomly click on 'yes' to everything when installing you should be fine.
The last version I downloaded a little while ago installed malware on my PC which kept loading web pages for one of the bookmakers, William Hill. I had to improve my antivirus software to eliminate this.
The website says, "You can use it to build DVD Video discs (from a VIDEO_TS folder), HD DVD Video discs (from a HVDVD_TS folder) and Blu-ray Video discs (from a BDAV / BDMV folder) with ease."
Do you have a DVD player that will just play the files if they are written to a disc without menus, etc.? TBH, I've not yet seen one (my own player is quite old), but it seems like a silly feature to leave out in this day and age.
Otherwise, if you want menus, chapters, etc., you need (as others have mentioned) DVD authoring software. Problem is, if it then recodes the video to DVD standards (image size, frame rate, etc.), which it always does, unless the video file is already in the correct format, you may noticeably lose some quality. If you are able to just put the files on a data DVD and play that, you won't. Unless they are too big to fit without compression.
I have to admit, though, that I haven't made video DVDs for years. I used NeroVision Express, which seemed good, but trashed my first Win7 machine when I tried it on that. Nowadays, I just share a folder on my PC, and use a Raspberry Pi with Kodi on to play them on the TV.
Well, the Pi was a Christmas present - I was looking for something to do with it :-) The media player OS was a pleasant surprise. I'm not sure if my telly will connect to a media server by itself, but I suppose I ought to check.
I use ushare, and that does a good job too (apart from when I hosted it on a machine with two interfaces and it picked the wrong one, but I just hacked it a bit)
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