Okay I’m fully aware of how ridiculous this sounds in 2023, but bare with me.
I have a wonderful neighbour, Jackie. She’s in her mid-sixties, and ever since she moved in we have become very good friends, she’s like a second mom to me.
Jackie loves movies and has an enormous DVD collection. One day, she was talking about how she couldn’t find a particular movie, and I said “I can probably download that for you!” Her immediate reply was “Can you put it on a DVD?” I tried telling her the many reasons it would be better to use a myriad of other solutions, but she insists on DVDs.
I did them for a while using DVDStyler on Windows, and it worked fine. But then I installed EndeavourOS on a new partition on my hard drive, tried using Brasero and Devede but it wouldn’t read on her DVD player. Then I tried DVDStyler on my Linux partition, and it didn’t work on her DVD player, despite saying the operation was successful on my end. I then tried booting up into Windows and using DVDStyler, and that also didn’t work, not even letting me burn the disc. Does anyone have any ideas what could fix this? I’ve tried playing around with the settings in all these apps but I couldn’t figure it out.
Apologies if this isn’t the best place to ask this, but I figured a community of pirates would understand my desire to get movies to Jackie without her having to pray to find them in a pawn shop!
I still burn DVDs for my grandma who lives several hours away. She doesn’t have a computer or the Internet at home, so in order to share video clips from the kids I convert them to a DVD she can play on her TV. She’s so happy each time she receives a new disc in the mail and it allows her to see them grow between visits.
USB?
She finds it easier to just put the DVD in there, as it will autoplay the whole thing without any intervention, and I take the time to make a cover and everything.
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You were supposed to convert it to betamax first, duh
All jokes aside, you are very nice for going out of your way to deal with obsolete tech for your friend to watch movies. Kudos to you.
What are the specific DVD discs you’re using?
If it’s got any type of rewriteable ability, it likely won’t play in a DVD player.
If I remember I had the best luck with DVD-R discs ( NOT DVD+R ) but it has to do with the dvd burner and the final dvd player they end up in. Might be worth trying both.
edit: just read your comment that it previously worked but stopped working? In that case Id agree that maybe your DVD burner needs a replace
This is a fair comment, and would definitely have helped me out 15 or so years ago when I was trying to figure out how to burn DVDs for myself :P
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Is it an idea to get her a new DVD player which also reads USB sticks?
Her current setup already can read files from a USB, she still insists on DVDs. I don’t really think she can wrap her mind around how files are as permanent as DVDs. Any technology is basically magic in her eyes, and I think having a physical disc that plays a movie is much less overwhelming to her.
But I adore that woman so I want to get her her movies, obsolete technology be damned.
I can’t remember the last time I burned a DVD for anything, possibly 15 years.
Some people do still burn movies to DVD using free DVD burning software, especially those who prefer physical copies of their media or have older DVD players that do not support digital video formats. However, with the increasing popularity of streaming services and digital downloads, burning movies to DVD has become less common.
2009 when X-Men origins came out and I 5hi k I got the screener? 5lthe one that isn’t quite finished yet, and gave it to a teacher
Might be worth it to give dvd flick a shot. You can play tetris while its authoring.
I was thinking about it, I have a couple of dvd I would like to RIP and I don’t have a DVD reader since like 15 years ago . I would need to voy an external one and spend some money. Will try to get a used one and sell it after.
Yes, I still burn my movies to DVD. I especially love having physical copies of my favorite films, it somehow adds to the whole movie watching experience. If your are looking for a reliable DVD authoring software, I recommend DVDFab DVD Creator. Hope this tool can help you.
