How Big?

Mysticalfan · Post by **Mysticalfan** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 12:28 am

Hello, I want to burn some music videos onto a cd-r or a dvd+r. I was wondering if I do that, how big will they look on the TV screen?

I have some old videos that I burned onto a cd once and they came out looking small (except for one I think.)

Also, will I have to change the videos into a compatible format first? Some of the videos are from WMM. Where can I get a good converter? My brother had a dvd burner, but I'm not yet familiar with the software and I don't know if I'll be able to use it. Thanks.

godix · Post by **godix** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:21 am

Hello, I want to burn some music videos onto a cd-r or a dvd+r. I was wondering if I do that, how big will they look on the TV screen?

How many inches is your TV?

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 1:22 am

1) how big is your tv?

2) check to see if your dvd player can play xivd/divx... if it can then you can just convert all the videos to xvid/divx and burn them to disk... otherwise you'll have to author a dvd.

Pwolf

Mysticalfan · Post by **Mysticalfan** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 3:00 am

My tv is about 24 inches. I guess I'll check to see what it can and can't support. Thanks.

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 4:13 pm

Assuming you want to make a standard DVD that will be playable on any DVD player, some good authoring software will scale the video for the correct DVD resolution, and will play fullscreen like any other DVD.

I can't speak of such software because I scale things myself and like to play around with things that way, but Nero should do what you need.

Now if you are talking about something like a DivX compatible player, yes you will need to re-encode this with XviD or DivX, and check out the guides on how to make a DivX compatible file because the DivX players do not support all the features XviD can make use of. This should automatically scale as well and should be done on playback, so you can just encode them at the original resolution.

You might want to play around making VCD or SVCDs at first to get the general idea, also it won't be a big deal if you waste a disc since they are pretty damn cheap these days.