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[Fjordstone]

Please don't flame me!  I've downloaded a number of files from YouTube, and have placed them in Popcorn 4 for conversion.  What I ultimately want is a DVD that will automatically play through all of the segments as one program, on my DVD player (a fairly new Toshiba progressive scan player), for viewing like a normal DVD on a tv.  I have searched exhaustively and can't find any advice on what format I need to convert to for optimum viewing through a DVD player on a tv.  DV?  HDV?  Mpeg4?

Right now, all of the segments are sitting in the "Convert" video files window, but I'm afraid to do something wrong!  Can anyone answer this seemingly simple question?

I would love if someone could explain to me, step-by-step, how I accomplish this.  Presumably I'm going to convert the files to the correct format, then I'll be dragging the converted files back into Popcorn 4, but this time the "Copy" window, and will then burn them.  Is there anything I need to know about output settings when I get to this part of the process that isn't already covered in the Popcorn 4 manual?

Thanks very much in advance for any advice!

[tsantee]

Choose DVD-Video as the format in Popcorn's Copy window (not the Convert window). Set up the menu the way you want. Since you want them playing one to the next without a break, put a check mark next to Play All Items Continuously. Click the burn button. It will take awhile for Popcorn to convert the videos to MPEG 2 format and then author the video DVD before it starts burning a disc. When you put more than 1-1/2 hours of video on a DVD the quality begins to decline. I think Popcorn can fit about 3 hours of video to a DVD.

[Fjordstone]

tsantee, on 12 July 2011 - 03:09 PM, said:

Choose DVD-Video as the format in Popcorn's Copy window (not the Convert window).

Wow, really?  And here I thought I'd have to convert first!  Thank you VERY much!

[Fjordstone]

Hey, tsantee, thanks again.  Popcorn also had to re-encode my material from PAL to NTSC, but the whole conversion/encoding/writing process only took about twenty minutes for a two-hour film (thank you, brand new Mac with your Quad-Core i5 processor!).  I'm just amazed.