We've had too many people call us up or mail us asking us how they can watch their favourite videos on their DVD player. It's obvious that not everyone owns an HTPC or a DivX DVD player. The solution is pretty simple. A free program called DVDFlick is all you need. You can download it for free from dvdflick site. Here's how you do it.


Creating a DVD project

After you install, start it and create a new project by clicking the button for it on the toolbar on top. Making a movie doesn.'t take too long, but you do require an ample amount of disk space. Make sure you have around 12, to 15 GB'of free ' space on your disk., you don't have enough space on your . Windows partition, change , the project destination folder to a drive that has more space. Use the Browse button at the bottom of the window to do so. Click on the Project settings button. Enter a name for the project, then select the target size as the size of the kind of disk you will be burning the movie on - a CD or a DVD.


Adding a video

The next step is to add a video to the compilation. DVDFlick lets you add many videos to your DVD compilation. Hold down the [Crrl] key, click on the videos and then click on Open. DVDFlick supports a wide range of formats and codecs so you no longer have to depend on other video encoding programs to convert your video format to an uncompressed video format and then to DVD. You can change the order of the clips or videos by clicking any of them, clicking on the Move up or Move down buttons on the right.


setting up- audio-video preferences

A high quality movie might fit just about right on a DVD. DVDFlick will automatically Setting the bitrate for video encoding alter the video quality of the videos if you put too many videos on a DVD or it will show up as a red bar on the left of the DVDFlick window. You can change the quality of the DVD yourself by clicking on the Video tab under Project settings. Change the target bit rate.

Similarly, you can also change the audio settings. If you have a stereo audio setup, then you can force stereo audio for the movie you are burning to the DVD. Bitrate settings fer audio are also available.

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Adding subtitles and chapters

Subtitles can also be added to your movie. To do this, select the video title from the list you've added and click on Edit title. Click on the sub title tracks panel and click Add. Just like video formats, DVDFlick also supports many subtitle formats. Select the clip and click Open. Chapters can be added after a set interval, so you don't have to fast forward from the beginning to a particular position. Click on the Chapters subsection and click on the Create checkbox. Set the number of chapters you want or you can set a time interval using the first option to Create chapters every _ minutes. Click Accept when done.


Finalising the DVD

Before we burn the disk itself, we need to make he DVD interface attractive, with a menu and a listing of chapters. Click on the Menu settings button and select a theme from the list. DVDFlick also acts as a disk burning application. Click on the Project settings one final time, and click on Burning You can use DVDFlick to write an ISO file which can then be burnt on a disk using a different application. rr you want to burn the disk, check Burn project to disk. Enter a name for the disk, select the drive you are burning on and set a speed. Burning at 8x is recommended. Click Accept and click on Create DVD to burn the disk. The process may take a while depending on the quality and size of the videos.