Divx to dvd or cd

[hah]

Can someone recommend a good freeware program to converts divx to dvd or cd?

Thanks in advance

[fredr123]

Maybe something like this? Check that site every day for free software giveaways. Sometimes there is some useful stuff on there.

[BlackEleven]

There are guides on www.doom9.org. I would definitely recommend checking out this site. It's the best site out there for anything to do DVDs, divx, etc. Check out the Guides section for what you want to do.

Also, if you're willing to invest a bit of money there are DVD players out there that will play divx files without having to convert them (kiss is one brand I know for sure does it, but there are others as well).

[someguy51]

http://www.videohelp.com/ has lots of tutorials and links to free software to help you convert from virtually any format to any format.

[nfotiu]

It costs about $100, but Pinnacle media Studio does a great job of authoring dvds from just about any media file type.

[Jayems]

Is there a way to put divx files onto DVD with out encoding for 5 hours? Or is that just the nature of the beast?

Cheers.

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Is there a way to put divx files onto DVD with out encoding for 5 hours? Or is that just the nature of the beast?

Cheers.

Well, if you want it to play in any DVD player then that is the nature of the beast.

If you literally want those files on a disk it is much faster.

You just make sure your software knows it is burning a data disk (as opposed to video) and it should just burn the files.

[nfotiu]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Is there a way to put divx files onto DVD with out encoding for 5 hours? Or is that just the nature of the beast?

Cheers.

Get a faster CPU. Transcoding is all CPU.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by Jayems

Is there a way to put divx files onto DVD with out encoding for 5 hours? Or is that just the nature of the beast?

Cheers.

There are some options to try and get around this. I don't like decoding divx back to video because you lose quite a bit of quality doing this (you're basically compressing images and then uncompressing them). Plus I'd some times run into issues where something wouldn't be decoded quite right and I'd get a bunch of distortion. After the distortion the audio would be out of sync. There's also the time savings, like you mentioned.

If your video card has tv-out, you can buy cables that attach to an input (RCA or S-video) on your televsion. Then you just play the videos out from your computer and display them on the tv. This is what I do and it doesn't look too bad. Its not perfect but its a lot better than burning to DVD, I find.

The other option I mentioned above is you can get DVD players that will play divx with no need to convert.

[hah]

Thanks for everyones help.

I actually transferd the "files" using Sonic.That came preloaded on my CPU.

I had to reduce the quality from Dvd to VCD to get all the information on the DVD disc.

I will try and play the DVD on my home dvd player, which I think is compatible with multi formats. I will follow up.

I was trying to convert a DIVX movie.