I was told by a friend that I didn't have to use DVD's for videos I dl from Limeware. Is that true? TIA.

HI Melaska, the simple answer is yes you can burn a film you have stored on your pc onto a normal CDr/rw, the long answer is also yes if its to be used to play in a home DVD player under your TV then you simply select VCD in nero or which ever burning application you plan to use, if you just want to store the file on cd to free up space on your PC you can burn as data instead(this may also play on a home DVD too), the process of converting to VCD format is handled by most decent burners, tho it may take sevral hours to do. Hope this helps.

John,

Thank you for posting.

What do you mean by 'burn as data'...I've heard this term elsewhere and wonder how that works. Is it the whole file? Why not do this instead of burning regular cd/dvd's?

So, if I burn a video as 'data', it will play back as a movie on my computer?

TIA!

Hi again mel, yes burning as data will produce a disc that is playable on your pc, but most probably wont play on your dvd player in the living room. If your using nero to burn disk run start smart fisrst, at the top of which youl c that it says either cd or dvd change to cd, then select burn a data disk from the options,or if prefered select burn a video cd from the same options, this will produce a disc playable on both pc and stand alone dvd players, most dvd players support vcd format now. If burning as data youl need to burn the whole file yes, if burning as vcd nero will let you split the file if need be, tho again this adds time to the process.

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movies on a regular cd work as VCD or SVCD. however, i'd download VCDs and SVCDs rather than converting them from a crappier format to S/VCD. it saves the video quality big time and saves you about the same amount of time it would take to re-encode.