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dirtydave469
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11/12
Posted - Dec 6 2012 : 3:26PM
Any time I tried to burn a DVD from clips loaded from the net they look bad. Is it possible to make DVD quality?
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ninja1
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2939 Posts
1/08
Posted - Dec 6 2012 : 6:22PM
The quality of the DVD video can be only as good as the quality of the original downloaded video. There are things you can do to minimize the amount of degradation caused by the DVD creation process. But that's about the best you can do.
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mapofhawaii
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Posted - Dec 7 2012 : 3:29PM
If you are burning those scenes onto a dvd-r, the quality will suffer. However, if you burn them to a dvd as data, in the original file format, and then play it on a dvd player that can play various file types (i have a pioneer bdp-150, which plays avi, wmv, mp4, flv, etc), then you can record from that disc onto a DVD-R and the quality is much better.
Edited by - mapofhawaii on 12/7/2012 3:30:22 PM
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ninja1
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Posted - Dec 7 2012 : 5:57PM
There is nothing inherently inferior about DVD-R. As a matter of fact you can burn a direct clone copy of a factory-made Hollywood DVD onto a DVD-R disc, and it will play the video, menus and extras and all, just as perfectly as the original. Yes it would be illegal for you to make such a copy, but from a technical/quality standpoint, the DVD-R copy will give just as perfect a performance as the the original.
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mapofhawaii
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Posted - Dec 7 2012 : 8:36PM
I didn't mean that the quality suffers because it's going onto a DVD-R. I meant that if you are using burning software to burn scenes that come from .wmv or similar files, then it will. At least in my experience. A DVD player that plays media files, which you can then burn on a DVD recorder, yields much better results.
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ninja1
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Posted - Dec 7 2012 : 9:45PM
^I began writing a reply, but decided it's pointless, as OP has provided insufficient info for any of us to provide practical useful advice.
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RandomPrecision
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3/06
Posted - Dec 8 2012 : 1:58AM
I have a Philips HD media player box that sits by my TV and has a USB port. You can use thumbdrives but you can also use USB external hard drives (I'm not sure if there's a size limit but my WD 250 works like a charm).
You could rip DVDS to ISO format and they work perfectly on this thing. It works just like a DVD. The quality appears to be about as good as the original to me. But they take at least 4 gigs each for halfway decent quality. Best part is that if you already have a spare external drive laying around, the box I bought only cost about $50 at Target.
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Also, if you want to play clips downloaded from the web, this box plays many of them in their native format. It doesn't play Xvid though. You'd have to convert anything that's in that format and you will lose quality that way. This won't hurt too bad if the original is high quality but if you're the type who wants perfection, you'll probably notice. It plays MP4, flv and WMV for sure. It usually plays MKV.
Edited by - randomprecision on 12/8/2012 2:06:52 AM
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