DVD burning

[airforceone3380]

I was wondering if there was a way to burn a cd with movie files on it that will play on a dvd. I don't really have the money to go buy a dvd burner with but is it possible to burn regular cds that can play video on a dvd player? If so how do you do it and can it hold full length movies

[Xyzar]

<!-- a dvd player is meant for dvd's, not cd's.

although a lot of dvd-players do support certain typesof cd's like VCD, SVCD, etc.

 

you'd have to convert your movie and burn it as VCD or something alike.

(after checking if your DVD player supports them, offcourse.) -->

[Bond996]

There's basically 4 ways to do this. First two options are to create a VCD or SVCD. Both are lower quality than a DVD, but perfectly suitable. Most recent DVD players can play them, and you can use Nero or Roxio or similar to create them, or Pinnacle and other video suites. There are also some good guides on creating them on videohelp.com. Option 2 is to create a miniDVD. Basically, it IS a DVD, but on a CD. It can only do 15 minutes of video per disk, but is higher quality than a (S)VCD. Check for compatibility here again, and create it in the same way. The final option is if your DVD player supports MPEG-4 direct playback. It would allow you to put a DivX(maybe XviD) file of a certain bit-rate and specs onto a CD raw, and your DVD player would be able to play it. Check for compatibility here again, and there should be more guides on videohelp for those as well.