Burning a movie to DVD

smithcorp · Post by **smithcorp** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:22 am

G'day chaps

I "acquired' a movie on torrent that came out as a .img file about 4.1 gigs. After casting about on the net for some advice, I renamed the file as a .iso file and attenpted to burn it to a DVD using Nerovision (or whatever its called).

It "saw" the iso file, but when I added the file to the DVD to be burnt, it showed it was only 10 minutes long, appeared to only be a title/warning screen and the file size was only a few MB.

I then renamed it back to .img and tried again, but Nero wasn't having any of that.

Any ideas, help, hints chaps?

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:33 am

CloneDVD2 from the slyfox mob
That will read the img file.

smithcorp · Post by **smithcorp** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:07 am

What about DVD Shrink? I've got that (haven't got a clue how to use it though).

Sambo · Post by **Sambo** » Tue Nov 29, 2005 9:09 am

try alcohol 120%, just drop the image into a virtual drive and it should pop up like any other dvd would.....last time i checked it had burning capabilities aswell and its only about 20mb for the full version, miniova should be able to "sell" it to you

smithcorp · Post by **smithcorp** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 12:50 pm

Strange things. Nero ended up burning the disc image fine, by using a different part of Nero (not nerovision). Weird.

Then I had some avi files i wanted to burn to DVD as a movie. Researched, ended up using TmpgEnc to convert the downloaded avi's to mpeg2, then burnt DVD, having to fiddle with bitrate to get it to fit on a 4 gig DVD blank. Result - great video on home DVD player, but no sound, after like a 50 minute burn. Frustrated, u tried to get Nero to burn the avi file as a DVD movie and it did it. Result, DVD that will play fine on home player and a file size that will fit two 50 minute episodes on one DVD. What gives?

w00dsy · Post by **w00dsy** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:45 pm

smith, if you want to convert an avi etc to a dvd try either winavi or dvdsanta. The are both very simple to use. Once it's made them i still use CloneDVD to copy them to a disk though.

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Thu Dec 01, 2005 1:50 pm

Smith, make sure you have the full on version of Nero. Most people have the basic version which does not allow for DVD encoding or video file coversion. In the window I have of options, I have at least 6 pages of different DVD encoding burning options in Nero.

smithcorp · Post by **smithcorp** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 7:11 am

My Nero version came with my DVD burner. I guess it's the full version, but I'll check.

SamC · Post by **SamC** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:13 am

I just use DVDShrink, It's a peice of cake, put the DVD in DVD drive and blank DVD in the DVD burner, you can select which parts of the movie you want aswell, choosing which menus etc. then choose to burn it and wait about an hour and a bit depending on the length of the DVD and your done.

I would have thought that nero would do that img thing, but ah well

Nigel · Post by **Nigel** » Fri Dec 02, 2005 8:30 am

I dont like DVDshrink. I don't think it does a good job on contrast. If you look at the eyes, the whites seem to be very bright. There is just something off about it. DVDclone gives the best results when backing up your originals.