On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 17:55 -0500, Bill Kuncicky wrote:
> I tried checking this out on Google, but didn't come up with anything 
> helpful.  So guess I'd better turn to a better source of information -- 
> the piclist!  :-)
> 
> I have a video file on my computer, which is of type .wmv.  I want to 
> put it on a DVD so that my grandmother can see it, since she doesn't 
> have a computer (and refuses to get one) but does have a DVD player.  
> She lives in another part of  the country, by the way, and I will just 
> mail a disk to her.
> 
> My computer can write a DVD disk, but I'm not sure that just writing 
> this .wmv file to a DVD disk will do what I want it to do.  And we don't 
> have a DVD player here in the apartment, so no way to check it out.  
> Does anyone know the answer?

Writing just the wmv will not work.

You need to convert it to a format compatible with the DVD standard,
basically MPG2 format with specific frame rates and size.

Once that's done you need a DVD authoring program, writing the MPG2 to
the disk alone will also not work.

There are many tools out there that do it. Many free, many commercial.
Be aware though, MANY of the tools seem to have a problem with keeping
the audio in sync with the video when doing the WMV->MPG2 conversion.
VERY frustrating to wait an hour for the conversion only to find it's
complete junk. Note that COMMERCIAL applications had this problem more
frequently then the free ones.

Now, if only I could find a "click and go" DVD authoring program for
Linux, or at least a command line flow that's simple...

TTYL

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