To burn a movie in DVD format or as a data file?

When burning a movie data file into DVD format, the file is transformed, and some of the picture detail sharpness is then lost compared to the original file. I have seen it myself.

Files can be burned in their original format onto DVD disc. Then the disc can be played on a computor.

But is it possible to burn so that the original data file can be played on a DVD-player?

According to Help and Support you can burn in two ways: Live File System (which can be changed afterwards, by removing and adding files) and Mastered (which can't be changed). Mastered may play in DVD-players.

Is it possible to burn the original data file in Mastered format, or does Mastered mean that it has transformed the file into DVD format?
If it's possible to burn the original data file in Mastered, how is it done?

 

Live File System and Mastered have nothing to do with the file format of the video. They are just methods of burning the data onto the disk. They cannot be converted from one to another.

Use Live File System for XP and Vista, Mastered for everything else. However, I think you're asking the wrong question.

Video can come in a variety of formats: .mp4, .wmv, .mov, etc... and all are lossy formats. I would hate to see how large a movie is without some type of compression.

All DVD player can play mpeg2, which is the decided format for DVD video. I'm sure that newer DVD players have new codecs in them which allow them to play other popular formats as well though.

 

well, you could try dvd decrypter

 

Most new dvd players can do divX formats . Check what formats your dvd players can do

 

You'll usually lose a little quality anytime you convert a movie between formats. The problem is in the conversion, not the DVD format. The DVD format is superior to a lot of the junky formats of movies online.

More to your question, forget all that mastered and live stuff... Not relevant. As Lithius said, "Videos can come in a variety of formats: .mp4, .wmv, .mov, etc... ". A DVD player can ONLY play the formats it is programmed to. So, an older DVD player can ONLY read DVD format. A newer one might be DIVX, but ONLY if it says it can on the box you bought it in.

Try using a different conversion software, or download the 4 - 7 GB file in DVD format. All assuming it isn't copywritten material we're talking about here.

 

Thank you for good advice! I am getting it.

My particular DVD-player can play WMA files. But that doesn't seem to be the same as WMV. WMA is only the sound. It can play WMA sampling 32 kHz (but not if recorded in 20 kbps), 44.1 kHz, or 48 kHz. And the list of exact prerequisites goes on and on. So it's all very precise what it can, and can not, play.

 

I have closed a Mastered disc. How do I finalize it?

 

Is it possible to edit a movie data file (like you do in Windows Movie Maker when making a DVD movie) and still keep it in the original file format? How is it done?

 

When you eject the disc, it will be finalized automatically. Most of the video editing softwares do this automatically.

 

Do you mean the exact copy of the dvd? Most DVD burning utilities do the same. The DVD has already video data files (like .vob, .ifo, .bup in a typical DVD movie). When you copy a dvd the data files won't change.

 

I mean a .mpeg or .wmv data file, for example. I wonder if you can edit it (remove parts of it), and have the edited part still remain in the same format data file?

Because when you edit a file (.mpeg or .wmv) in Windows Movie Maker, you can only use the edited part in DVD video format, burning it in Windows DVD Maker. So the original data file has then been transformed into DVD video format.

I don't want the data file transformed into DVD video format. Because then it looses picture sharpness, and further, can't be played on the computor as a file.

 

To answer my own question I found Movica.

http://vani.bhargav.googlepages.com/movicaguide