dvd/bluray burning software

[RABun]

I refute that i didnt give the best advice you can tell from the way i describe the solution that i am the worlds expert on all things IT

[ampersand]

right, rabuns way hasn't worked as my bluray player must be a cheapy that doesn't have that function. shite!

right, going to try the burning programmes.

[Paul ™]

Still the best advise?

I have no need for burning, encoding, transcoding, copying files, using USB pens,etc..

I just simply turn on the PS3, browse to the file, stream the download from the NAS box (which even downloads the torrents for me overnight with no PC/Laptop being on)m, straight on to my telly

Not bad for £90 (even better I only paid £30 for it as had £60 in free vouchers from my Valued Opinions account)

[ampersand]

i saw one for £75. so how does it work? what does it actually play from? i only have my laptop (which is too slow to run a film like that)

tried burning the file to a dvd and didn't work. no sound and the playback was shite. perhaps cos the discs are old, but i doubt it. and all my files are in that format (mp4) so not going to bother trying.

ach well, sky movies for me

[Paul ™]

i saw one for £75. so how does it work? what does it actually play from? i only have my laptop (which is too slow to run a film like that)

[ampersand]

aye i've got the router jazz.

but how does it work? does speed of laptop come into it? the whole thing confuses me (surprise)

[RABun]

[ampersand]

[ampersand]

bollocks to this. network drives, not convinced. lovefilm me thinks. £14.99 for 2 discs at a time unlimited. will give me a chance to try out games that i will inevitably sell as well.

[Gre]

aye i've got the router jazz.

but how does it work? does speed of laptop come into it? the whole thing confuses me (surprise)

[ampersand]

If you still want to go the free way, the easiest way is to convert the files to an ISO and burn that to DVD using Imgburn. Pop the disc in your DVD/blu-ray player and you're off. Depending on what you've downloaded, you can have all the menus etc as well.

[windy_miller]

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[ampersand]

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[Gre]

idiots guide to coverting to an iso?

i only have the film file. some have subtitle files (which i can't be arsed with)

thanks for the help i'll try tonight but if not, then i'm reregistering with lovefilm and just doing that. someone says you can get 6 months free, so need to hunt for that code/offer

[windy_miller]

If you still want to go the free way, the easiest way is to convert the files to an ISO and burn that to DVD using Imgburn. Pop the disc in your DVD/blu-ray player and you're off. Depending on what you've downloaded, you can have all the menus etc as well.

[Gre]

That's not going to work if the file is HD. You can't play HD content from a DVD, unless you just burn the file to the DVD instead.

[ampersand]

Oh absolutely. I'm assuming (which I think we've established) that

1) Ampers doesn't have a blu-ray burner

2) His blu-ray player can't read whatever type of video he's trying to play.

[Paul ™]

i do have a bluray burner (though i'm assuming it still burns bluray. it doesn't play them anymore cos windows 7 thought it best not to tell me that before i installed it. twats!

[Gre]

i do have a bluray burner (though i'm assuming it still burns bluray. it doesn't play them anymore cos windows 7 thought it best not to tell me that before i installed it. twats!

[ampersand]

That's an arse.

Well, if you can get it to work, you want to make a blu-ray disc image, and then burn that to a blu-ray. No idea what programs you'd use though, sorry!

[sifi]

Right, this is how I do it.

I download my avi file from where-ever. Generally I download 700MB avi files, or occassionally 350MB avi HD television shows. Dexter for example.

Using DivX Player 6.8.2 - there are newer ones avaiable, but I like this one - I import the files to the DivX.

It uses something called FREE EASY BURNER which I had to install.

I select about six or so files that I've downloaded, and drag them onto the blank DVD icon.

I buy ten blank DVD-Rs from Asda for three quid.

I press burn, and ten minutes later the disc has like six films on it.

I put them in my DivX DVD sony player which cost me forty quid.

I watch them.

It works.

[ampersand]

right, i bought a new bluray player that would play files from my usb drive. only to learn that my usb drive isn't f**king compatible for some reason!

its a sony bdp s370. and i've got a standard 300 or so gb usb hard drive. what the hells the problem?