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Looking at the manual it only does data format CDs for mp3 audio and JPEG pictures, for video it'll have to be actual DVD video, use DVD Styler or similar to make a proper DVD video disc https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

I use dvd styler to make the dvd menus. Best part it’s free being open source. Lots of options and can make some very professional looking dvd menus. Cause normally I will change the back ground to the intro of the show so when you put the dvd in you know what you watching.

As for then cd labels and dvd sleeves is use Avery templates and those are free to use as well online through Avery website.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

https://www.avery.com/templates

the dvd case inserts labels fit well for slim dvd cases like I got

You'll need authoring software to create a DVD Video compatible disc as well as a drive.

Adobe discontinued Encore, but if you have a CC account and can hunt down a trial installer you should still be able to activate it providing you're on Windows or an older version of OSX. (You need Photoshop too for menu design, but you should be able to do it with any version of Photoshop.)

Otherwise DVDStyler will work, though it's capabilities in terms of menu customisation is very basic, but at least it's free!

Use single-layer DVD-R's. Dual layer ones don't work very well on some players and are more prone to bad burns.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

DVDs are standard def, so they're never going to look great on a modern smart TV.

Most smart TVs these days can play 1080p/4k files off of a USB memory stick - that might be the better way to do this.

When I still made DVDs, I used DVDStyler, which I thought was the least bad FOSS. It allowed making good-looking DVDs, but I had to use my own images and even graphics, because I think the ones they provide are poor, dull, and lacking imagination. But it was very useful for making menu layouts and cutting the files in VOB.

The problem nowadays is that DVD is a format whose resolution is no longer really sufficient compared to our modern TV screens, and many people don't have blu-ray players.

So now I leave my videos as MKV files, but nobody else but me plays them, whilst are still people who watch DVDs, and this packaging gives a material existence to videos that otherwise might become old files on a computer that nobody will watch anymore...

Do you need your discs to be Blu-ray? You could always encode your source files down and burn in your subtitles, then use DVDStyler to create DVDs with menus and such. You might even be able to make DVDs without menus or with an auto start, I just haven’t tried. If you father isn’t very tech savvy, then he probably won’t notice the difference between DVD quality and Blu-ray.

There's a hundred different YouTube downloaders out there. I wrote a simple one that I've uploaded here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/youtube-dl-gtk/

Download the videos you want and then use your choice of DVD authoring software to burn to disc. Obviously, don't go selling these or reproducing them without the consent of those who made the video, but for your own personal use it should be totally fine. A couple you might consider are: DeVeDe: https://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DVD Styler: https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

No matter what, you can only get 2 hours of video on a single layer DVD and 4 hours on a double layer. Compressing the files any further would result in a loss of quality. You can burn them with this.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

The DVD format file structure itself is probably all you really need if the person you are giving it to is not tech savvy. On the Root of a DVD file system you will find a Video_TS and Audio_TS folder, the video files are then stored in the Video_TS folder usually with a non meaningful names, lots of them are just numbers or chapters and mixed in with any menu and transition files. Any free DVD authoring software should be able to help you convert to the correct format. If the person is tech savvy enough to be able to explore the file system of a DVD, copy the correct file, then rename them to meaningful names then any additional DRM you can put on a DVD would be useless as well.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/ This is a free open source authoring software to help create the menus and file structure if you need one.

I have a client that requires lots of burned DVD's (sadly).

I export my video in H.264 and just use a 1080p preset for youtube or vimeo. It doesn't really matter, it's getting mushed onto a DVD anyway. After I have the .mp4 file I use DVDStyler to setup the menu structure and create a .iso file. Then, I use Imgburn (You can use Burn.) to burn the iso to a blank dvd.

DVD Styler: https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/downloads Burn.:http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html

I do everything on a PC but I believe this is a similar process.

Are you using AWS for the write speed?

If you're trying to create a DVD from video files, there's DVD Flick or DVDStyler.

The PS4's media player can also play files from a USB drive or media server.

DVDStyler (free) can still do this, that is, automatically convert videos to mpeg-2 vob files and create DVD menus intuitively. The software is available for OSX, it looks a bit old-fashioned, but DVD's are not bleeding-edge technology either.

1. Use the "Remux" option in the file menu of OBS to make it an MP4 (which nearly everything can edit.
2. Not enough info for your hardware. CPU, RAM, GPU?
3. Any tool will do the edit (I'd probably pick Olive or Shotcut). A bigger problem is DVD authoring - DVDStyler - https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/ is likely the best free choice.

https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/downloads

Free and open source, probably the only decent free one left!

If you can hunt down an old boxed copy or trial of CS6, I'm fairly sure you can still activate Encore with CC credentials.

However Encore won't work on Catalina, and doesn't run great on Windows 10 either!

The other poster is unfortunately misinformed.

DVDs use the MPEG-2 codec. .mpg (or sometimes .mpeg) is the file extension for that format.

In order to put that on a disc and actually play it on a DVD player, you need to authour the DVD, which means taking the video and packing it up into the right format for a DVD video disc.

Authouring is also the process that allows you to do things like add menus and chapters.

This requires special software. DVDStyler is free and open source (so community developed) and pretty straightforward to use, that's what I'd recommend.

You have to be a little careful when searching for DVD related software - a lot of the free ones contain adware or are a little, uh, less than reputable.

Like, you want to make a DVD that you can play in a DVD player or laptop? Yeah, there are some good freeware programs like https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/ that don't have watermarks or size limits. They may take a bit of time to figure out, but I've used DVDstyler before and it's pretty reliable.

I've been stuck with the same problem.. VLC is fine for playback.. but not creation... I think people might be confusing iDVD with DVD Player (which is still part of macOS).

The best free alternative I can find right now is DVDStyler I've seen people mention Peng Guiping's "DVD Creator - Burn Video Maker" but there are two versions (an appstore version and a direct-purchase verson) and I'm not sure which one would be worth the bother compared to DVDStyler..

http://www.greatdy.com/mac-os-x/dvd-creator-pro

Word of advice: While the capability is there - do not bother with Toast.. ever since Corel bought Roxio Toast has turned to garbage and authors low-quality DVD video..

> I'm assuming that would be under the software thread, where every program mentioned was editing, w

You're not being a jerk; and your question here is logical. But it's the software thread. Not the "Editing software" nor "encoding software."

We try and make it all valuable for everyone - not just your use case.

> The rules section doesn't seem to suggest that I'm breaking any, the wiki doesn't seem to have anything about burning DVDs, and the software link in the sidebar also doesn't cover DVDs.

Software in the software thread.

> And as mentioned in my post, the search efforts have turned up nothing relevant in recent times - either people haven't had this issue, the software isn't made/accessible anymore because the threads are so old (Encore free trial sounds like it would have helped, but that thread was from 5 years ago), or my searching skills are bad in which case I still need help.

I'll have suggestions - but there, in the software thread.

DVDStyler would be my go to choice here - but I don't know if it has chapter capabilitites. DVDFlick also exists.

Beyond that, we might have to look at paid options.

Try DVDStyler I use it for my backups both blu-ray and dvd and it works great. It does have options for audio on the main menu, just right-click the background to get the properties. You can also add multiple menus for chapters and extras. Not sure about animated background though but I've add just about every type of image file and they mostly worked.

Yes. https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/

The built-in presets aren't very nice, so I went with "no preset". You can create buttons to titles by dragging the clips into the design area.

If you just need something to make an auto-playing DVD, give DVDStyler a shot.

You can still export DVD spec compliant mpegs from Premiere, so you should be able to import the files straight in without needing a transcode.

(Eatch out for the weird aspect ratios - DVD is actually slightly wider than 16:9, so using the default template settings you'll end up with pillarboxing. Use scale or stretch to fill on export to work around it.)

DVD authoring softwars is garbage these days. Encore was about the best you could get without shelling out $20k on Scenarist.

I've moved to USBs.

There are two programs that spring to mind. DVDStyler, but I don't know if it'll do manually assigned chapter points, but then there's always Adobe Encore, but that will require a Creative Cloud subscription (at least for Premiere, so you can download CS6 which includes the last version of Encore).

I have used DVDstyler and it was awesome for creating menu screens. When you select a background image for the menu, you can open a video file instead of a still image. It also gives you a lot of freedom for adding additional image overlays and buttons.

Note that the program starts to get a little laggy when you have a lot of clips or menus in it and I have had it crash on me once, so just make sure that you save often, and maybe save two copies of the project you are working on. Other than that, it's by far the best free DVD creation software I have used, and I have tried almost all the free ones out there.

I used DVDStyler back in the day. It doesn't look impressive at all when looking at the screenshots and the templates that comes with it, but it is actually quite capable. You could actually create commercial-grade level DVD's. That being said, that would require serious dedication and mastering of the software. But I don't think there are alternatives where you don't need that kind of skill.

Just a heads-up, it was a long time since I used it, and now alternativeto.net labels it as bundleware, so I guess that means don't blindly press "next" during install.

Cheap and easy don't go together.

Easiest way is via iDVD - you need a mac, the software is free.

If you're just trying to make a set of stills play - why not toss them on a thumbdrive player and have it play the clips - usually around $50.

If you want to do the work and burn a dvd? DVD Styler is open source software. Can't speak for it's ease.

If you want to create DVD menus to make the 'disc experience' a bit more similar to commercial DVD releases, you need to use a DVD authoring tool like DVD Styler (https://www.dvdstyler.org/en/) or WinX DVD Author (https://winx-dvd-author.en.softonic.com/).

A more comprehensive list of tools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DVD_authoring_applications

Some of these tools lack the disc burning feature, but they can create the DVD Video disc formatted files that you can simply copy and burn to the DVD with other free tools like Burnaware Free.