I downloaded some movies that I could only play in windows media player on my computer but I want to burn them onto a cd and watch them on my dvd player. Is ther a way to do this?  Can I somehow change these files to an iso or something so I can burn them with Alcohol or Nero. I have ruined a lot of cd's trying to do this but I need help. Any would be appreciated, thank you linda

Well you don't say what kind of a file so I will assume it is a DivX or an avi (which is probably pretty well the same thing but maybe there is a difference).*

Must warn you that it's a rather involved process.* You should be able to convert most avi's to an MPEG and then burn it in a VCD or SVCD format. So long as your DVD player supports these formats you should be able to watch your movie, etc. on your television screen.

Here's how:

Launch Virtual Dub (h@@p://www.virtualdub.org)
TO SEPARATE AUDIO (Yup, there's more than one "school of thought" on this subject but I never skip it and don't usually have problems)
· Open the AVI file
· AUDIO / full processing mode
· AUDIO / conversion / set @ 44100 HZ / ok
· AUDIO / interleaving / leave default / ok
· AUDIO / compression / <no compression (PCM)> ok
· FILE / savewave / save as WAV / will then process

Launch TMPGEnc (h@@p://www.tmpgenc.net)
TO CONVERT TO MPEG
· VIDEO-CD / NTSC / Next
· Browse Video File / Browse Audio / Leave Default / Next / Next
· Click on [EXPERT]
· Advanced Tab / Video Arranging Method / drop down to ? full screen (keep aspect ratio) / OK
/ NEXT
· Output file (Will take 2 + hours depending on file size and processor speed)

You may have to cut your MPEG depending on the size.


IN NERO
· Down to Video CD / - encoding ? NTSC / all the rest default
· After hitting the burn button, under the Burn TAB make sure you?re set for ?track at once?, NOT ?disc at once?.

Hope this helps.** :D

I believe this should be moved to Software Support from FTP Help. :)