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What's the best way to get web videos onto DVD?

Asked by mattewing (13points) December 7th, 2009

My dad loves interesting talks, but he’s got super slow internet. So, I’m hoping to make him a DVD of some great TED talks (www.ted.com). They’re all creative common licenses, so I’m fine on the copy front side. My question is: what’s the best way to take web videos (looks like mp4s in this case) and turn them into DVDs?

I’m using a Mac but don’t have a dvd burner.

Thanks collective ;)

Matt

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jrpowell's avatar

Mac, Windows, or Linux? What OS are you using?

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mattewing's avatar

Oops. I’m using a Mac and don’t have a dvd burner. But I do have virtualization, so if there was something critical on a PC, I could swing that.

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jrpowell's avatar

Did I read that right? You “don’t” have a DVD burner? I’m going to assume that you mean the software you need to burn the disk.

I am a huge fan of Burn. It is easy to use and is free and open source.

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mattewing's avatar

Nope, that’s right. I don’t have a burner. I’m wondering if there are any good services out there that I could use for this.

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arpinum's avatar

Have a friend do it. Give them the files on a thumb drive. If they are a PC user, they can install dvdflick easily. The program is very intuitive. Burn will work if they have a Mac.

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