Create a DVD for your home collection

Remember, as Matroskin's cat, the character of the cartoon "Three from Prostokvashino," said "At the end of the 20th century, and we have one pair of felt boots for two"? Surely, many in this statement will recognize themselves. Of course, in a figurative sense.

Modern TVs contain a post-processing processor that successfully copes with the task of playing MP3, DVD and some other streams. For owners of such a miracle of technology, this means one thing: it's time to send to the garbage a faithful and true DVD player. However, the process of replacing TVs is not yet complete and many are forced to watch movies in the old fashion - through the player. If it supports MP4, then this is good, otherwise there is only one way - creating a DVD yourself.

Play a classic DVD-movie can any player, all the same standard is the standard. Why do we need such a conversion? First of all, for older players, the chip of which can not decode the MP4 stream. In this case, creating a DVD is the only way to watch a movie. Of course, it must also be written to a CD. And since with the development of the Internet you can download any video for free, the creation of a DVD from AVI is not a curiosity.

If all modern players easily reproduce MP4 and its derivatives, then with the format of the MKV matryoshka, most are still having problems: the codec is unknown, then the speed for processing the stream is not enough. This is where the understanding comes that you will have to master the creation of a DVD. After the conversion, the player will happily "pick up" the familiar format, inviting everyone to view.

Applications that perform conversion (conversion) of video files to standard DVD-Video format, a lot, but today we will consider creating a DVD using VSO ConvertXtoDVD 4. Why through it, and not through any other? The reason is obvious - this program for creating DVD Video really works. A small drawback is that developers are asking for their work to pay. Using the application without the purchased key is possible, but in the final movie there will be a logo, which is not very good. Buy, search for a key on the Internet or watch video with a logo - it's up to the user.

After launching the program, you can call up the settings in the menu. There are three lines of tabs here, which is quite a lot. The "Encoding" option allows you to select the size of the disc (4 or 9 GB) for subsequent recording, and the double-pass option improves the quality of the DVD movie, though, by increasing the conversion time.

In the "Video Processing" tab, there is an important option for selecting the number of enabled cores. You must set the maximum number (you can not exceed it anyway) - this will speed up the conversion. The way to change the size of the image makes it possible to indicate the desired result to the program (proportional stretching, trimming, adding bands) - for screens with a 4: 3 ratio this is important. The proportions are rigidly specified in the DVD specifications. The "Recording" tab allows you to configure the program so that the final video file is immediately recorded on a CD. Here you can select the drive, write speed and some other parameters.

In the audio settings, you can specify the format of the audio compression (the least amount is occupied by MPEG). Conversion to AC-3 is recommended only when there is a problem with the playback of the DTS stream on the DVD player in use. The sound level is a very useful option, with its help you can amplify a very quiet sound or weaken excessively loud.

In the "DVD Menu" tab, select the desired disk template. Implemented a convenient view of the reduced templates right in the window of the program.

And the last recommendation to the owners of old players: for better compatibility, you need to record a movie on a DVD-R standard disc.