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How to burn a movie file to a DVD so I can play it on my TV

Aug 31, 2011 2:36AM PDT

I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. I have a movie (MPEG-4 file) on my hard drive. I would like to burn a DVD copy of the movie so that I can put it in my DVD player and watch it on my TV. How do I do this?

Thanks. AC

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What type of files . . .
Aug 31, 2011 4:04AM PDT

does the player support?

My Samsung plays any video file except MPEG-4. So I convert them to .avi which it will play. Do a Google on file converters.

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Re: DVD
Aug 31, 2011 5:28AM PDT

It might be necessary to use DVD Flick (free) to burn it. But that depends both on what yuour DVD player accepts as input and what your other burning programs can burn.

Kees

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How to burn a movie file to a DVD so I can play it on my TV
Sep 1, 2011 5:27AM PDT

Kees_B, you hit the nail on the head, DVD Flick is a goos converter, just read the tutorials, another great converter is ConvertXtoDvd