Guide to Converting Divx/Xvid Movies to DVD

[jona100]

I decided to put this up here, as a lot of my friends have asked me how to do this, and it seems to be a common request for a lot of people. Since most people who download movie on P2P do not want to watch them on their monitor and would rather have the movie on DVD, here is a handy quick quire to converting those Divx and Xvid movies on to a DVDR or DVDRW disk to watch on TV.

You will need

A DVD burner (obviously!)
A Blank DVD disk (even more obvious!!!!!!!!)
A copy of Avi Codec installed (available from Here)
A copy of Roxio Easy media creator or Roxio DVD builder. (I am sure you can find somewhere to get this).

Step 1
1. Open up ‘Avicodec’
2. Click the Select button in the top left hand corner. Navigate to the directory where your movie is you have downloaded from the internet and select the movie you want to put on DVD.
3. At the bottom of the screen there is a box with 3 rows. Look at the row called ‘Video’ and write down the number along side the letters ‘fps’ on a piece of paper.

Step 2
1. Open up ‘Roxio Easy Media Creator Home’
2. Click ‘Create new DVD’
3. Click ‘Add new title’ in DVD Builder (on the left hand side of the screen)
4. From the ‘add media to project’ dialogue box that opens, navigate to where your downloaded movie is on your hard drive and select it. An icon is now displayed on the DVD Builder screen below the word ‘Menu’ (you can select the word ‘menu’ and overtype it with the name of the movie if you wish).
5. Now click ‘Burn’ in DVD builder - A ‘Burn setup’ box now appears
6. Make sure the following is done:
• A blank DVD is in your DVD burner
• The ‘Burn to Disk’ box is ticked
If your DVD disk is not blank, click the erase disk button now to erase the disk
7. Click the ‘Show Advanced Settings’ button
8. Click the ‘Fit to Disk’ button (this will make the output movie the right size to fit onto your blank DVD disk). If the button is not clickable don’t worry about it.
9. Look at the piece of paper you wrote down the ‘fps’ (frames per second) when you used Avicodec at the start.
• If the fps equaled either 23.975 or 29.7 select NTSC in the ‘standard’ box
• If the fps equaled 25 select PAL in the ‘standard’ box
10. Make sure ‘DVD Video’ is selected in the recording format box at the bottom NOT +VR.
11. Click OK.

The DVD will now be created, it will take about 1 ½ to 2 hours to do (about the same length of the movie).

[evilmegaman]

good job. I think I will move this to the general computing forum and sticky it.

[Neonfxp]

why is it that when ever i try to select the xvid file it wont let me>> it has a red circle on the file?

[Cydor]

or better yet, buy yourself a DVD/DIVX player and skip all that trouble you have to go through converting.

[infringer]

A good place for full comprehensive guides on movie backup, conversion, and playing and requires no registration is:

www.vcdhelp.com

Converting with ease in no time flat.

-infringer-

[DigitalJunkie]

Roxio, is no more! Get Nero Burning ROM software instead.

[Jared Moya]

Roxio, is no more! Get Nero Burning ROM software instead.

Fuck yah NERO's the best, all you have to do is drag and drop XVID, DIVX, MPEG, aVi, whatever, select what output you want and let it do the rest...........stopped using ROXIO long ago when more and more flics were coming out in XVID........

[mfgbypooter]

I'm glad all I fuck with is lossless media.

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[shawners]

Nero Vision express will convert to svcd and vcd as well as DVD. The media player sucks on it but other then that, its all good.