PC to DVD?

[RobAdair]

A friend of a friend transferred some of my old camcorder tapes of the kids when they were little to PC for me to watch. He sent these via email. I've tried to burn a DVD of them, but it wont play in the DVD player? I think the problem is the file format, they have been saved as .flv files and only play on GOM Media Player on the PC. Is there any way of converting them to a file format that can be burned onto a DVD and watched on the telly?

 

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Rob Google the program ,"convert x to dvd " ,mate.

 

[KeithB]

A prog called WinAVI (amongst others) will convert it Rob.

Just google "flv to DVD"

 

[dazzer]

AVS Video convertor 6 is excellent also

 

[5150]

I'll second convertXtodvd, it's spot on. plenty of cracked versions out there.

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

It might be worth getting them redone in a higher quality format before burning to disc. I'm guessing if the files were small enough to e-mail effeciently they will probably be very poor quality.

 

[RobAdair]

Thanks for the help lads. Tried to convert them (which took hours) but only some of them would burn onto disc (keep getting disc burning error message with some of them?)

As Ian rightly states the quality of the ones I managed to convert is poor, so Im going to get them all done again as the original Hi8 tapes are really good quality and I was hoping for much better DVD quality than I got.

 

[5150]

make sure you've got the latest codec packs - this one is pretty uptodate Free-Codecs.com : Download K-Lite Codec Pack 5.6.1 FULL, K-Lite Codec Pack 5.6.1 STANDARD, K-Lite Codec Pack 5.6.1 BASIC : K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools

 

[KeithB]

Rob,

I've got a standalone DVD recorder that I rarely use you could borrow that if you want.

Connect the camera press play, press record on the DVD recorder - SIMPLES!!

 

[RobAdair]

Thanks for the kind offer Keith, I may take you up on that if I can't get sorted. It got me thinking though, what would I need to to able to just plug the camcorder directly into the pc and burn dvds that way?

 

[KeithB]

Nero will capture the video and burn it in DVD format for you. Just a case of what connections your camera and PC have.

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

If it's an analogue format camera like vhs and hi8 (I think) you will need a video capture card, I don't think they cost a lot now. You can get editing software and cards bundled together. Pinnacle is worth looking at. If your computer has a firewire connection that's all you need (+cable) for digital video.