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How to convert all video formats to DVD using ConvertXToDVD Print E-mail

The top program in our downloads database, based in number of times downloaded, is no other than DivXToDVD. Now you may ask why I mention that in this guide! Well the reason is no other than the fact that ConvertXToDVD is VSO Software's premium conversion software, replacing DivXToDVD which has ceased development.

What does it offer? Improved speed, support of dozens of formats (including avi, mpg, mov, wmv, mkv, ogm and more!), menu and subtitles support, build-in DVD burner, DVD to DVD copy, DV (digital camera format) to DVD conversion, both NTSC and PAL formats and conversion between them. And all these in a user-friendly yet powerful enviroment we will clarify in this guide. Before you ask, yes I do believe its the best all-to-DVD converter out there, and I've tried many, from the freeware to the most expensive one.

TipYou can download ConvertXToDVD free trial version by clicking here.


Step 1

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This is the main ConvertXToDVD windows. May seem a little too basic now but you'll soon see how efficient it can be. For the beginning lets go to Settings -> General.

Step 2

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What we will set here is the working folder, which is the folder that ConvertXToDVD will save the DVD files before burning them to a DVD. Make sure that the drive that the folder is in has at least 5GB free and set the working folder. (1) We will set the rest of the settings in the next steps, so for now click OK. (2)

Step3

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We are back to the main windows and its time to add some file to our DVD. Click the add button and select the file or files you want to convert.

Step4

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The files are now added as you see, however we will deal with their settings later. First comes the DVD's menu. Click the little cross (1) to reveal all options for the Menu item. Lets see the options one by one. First you can set the DVD title that will appear on the top of the menu by double-clicking on it (2) and setting the name (3). Next, you can set the background image by double clicking on Background and select the image you want to use (there are many nice one in ConvertXToDVD's folder and you can use any of your own pictures you want).

Auto start playback will auto-begin playing the first video when you enter the DVD in the player instead of showing the menu, Loop playback can be used if you want the DVD to repeat playback indefinitely by default and Sequential playback will play all videos in a row instead of returning back in the menu. The two font settings can be used to set the font and size of the menu's Title and Items.

Step5

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Right next comes the video properties. First you can see that the audio of each video has been automatically imported (1) as ConvertXToDVD supports almost all formats. But you can also add you own audio (for example commentary) by right-clicking on Audio and selecting Add Audio Channel. You can also click on each audio channel and set the language. Then we move to the subtitle settings. Right click on 0 Subtitle Stream and select Add Subtitle Channel (2) in order to add as many subtitle streams as you like. After you add them you can set the language and font size settings. Please note that if the subtitles are in the same desktop and have the same filename as the video they'll be automatically added. Finally you can review the Chapters and add more if you like as well as change the Menu text which is what will appear in the main menu as the title of this video. Follow the same steps to configure all your videos and move to the next step.

TipIf some cases when working with Matroska (.mkv) files that include subtitles, ConvertXToDVD may fail to load them. You can easily solve this by extracting the subtitles from the .mkv file and add them in your DVD the way shown above. If you wonder how you can achieve that just read this guide and you are set!

Step6

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We are finally ready to convert. You may want of course to preview your DVD before you start converting. To do that click the Preview button (1) and you can take a look at the whole DVD, including the menus. When you decide you are satisfied with the result click Convert (2) to start the converting process! Make sure you put an empty DVD in your DVD burner drive as well.

Step7

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When the conversion has finished a window like this will pop-up where you can select some settings about the burning (1) and change the volume name (2). When you are done click Burn (3). Keep in mind that this window will only be open for about 30secs since the conversion finishes and if you are not around it will start burning the DVD automatically so you don't really have to worry about this step as the default settings are fine.

Step8

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Finally burning finishes and your new DVD is ready for your player!

TipYou can download ConvertXToDVD free trial version by clicking here. You can buy ConvertXToDVD here or check VSO's homepage for more info here. If you need any assistance you can post in our forums for help!

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problems
written by computerjunkie, November 28, 2006
I have a couple of xvid that I am trying to convert but after the converting is done, and i view the video_ts folder on my computer, I have no audio. any ideas?
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Please user our forum for questions!
written by afonic, February 06, 2007
This section is only for comments about the program and/or the guide itself. Please ask any support question in the forums as we do not monitor the comments area.

Thank you.
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Thanks
written by dev.null, March 09, 2007
Thanks for the guide. Found it quite useful!
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written by Owen, March 27, 2007
The DVD Menu looks straighforward, but instead ot text to select the chapter, I would like to use pictures. How can I do that?
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written by Randomness, May 01, 2007
I've looked everywhere and cant find a solution to my problem. I've already used Convertxtodvd and successfully made a dvd that had the same error and fixed it. The error was "Floating Point division by zero", the problem was with the subtitle format. So I changed that and it worked. But now I wanna make a 2nd dvd with different files but still the same format and stuff, and I had converted the subtitle files just like before, but for some reason that error keeps displaying and it wont convert. Please Help.
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Where is the Preview Button located?
written by lulabelle, July 01, 2007
The illustration for step 6 is missing the bottom half so I unable to see
where the "Preview" button is located at. Is there somewhere else on your
website I can printout a complete DVD-Gude?

Thank you.
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sound lag
written by gmoney, July 10, 2007
there is a sound lag when i use this program it starts out right when i convert and then the sound lags more and more as the dvd conversion plays. it is from dvd camcorder mini...any suggestions?
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ConvertXtoDVD
written by DavidT, August 02, 2007
This is the best converter that I have come accros.
I will buying one as soon as possible.
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written by s w, October 12, 2007
i would like to know if this program converts divx to dvd.
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written by s w, October 12, 2007
i would like to know if this software converts divx to dvd
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written by sportsman, October 12, 2007
Of Course YES!
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written by Rayoiuio, November 02, 2007
Is there a way to see the subtitles previewed (rendered) in the Movie Preview?
To hear sound would be helpfull as well.
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written by blivet, December 11, 2007
i really dont no much about dvd someone gave me this recorder can i record from a vhs recorder to this dvd recorder and how also what is the difference of the dvd discs or- thank you
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Why only PC apps?
written by Arty, December 17, 2007
I wonder why you cover all the mean subjects such like this only for the Winbugs platform.
In the present case (to convert all video formats to DVD), there is a very realiable, useful and powerful app for the Mac OS X called ffmpegX (in fact ffmpeg an open source program that has also his Winblows version). If you don't like to bother with all the wide variety of controls that ffmpegX offers, you can try also a most elegant, simple and intuitive ffmpegX-based app (but not open source!) called VisualHub. The only difference between ffmpegX and VisualHub goes to the ability of VisualHub to cope also with video formats like WMV (urgh!) and Flash.
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written by anon, December 21, 2007
excelent program! Not a Single thing I would change or add to it.
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Menu
written by DooM, December 24, 2007
nice program but i like to make menu's
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Solved My Problems
written by B Woods, December 29, 2007
I was trying to use Nero Ultra and this program makes it easy, fast & reliable. Nero would need 4 hours to convert and slow my computer to a stand still. then 50% of the time it would either lock-up or burn a non usable DVD.
This is the best program for Dummies like ms (I guess i can use Nero to make labels)
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HD-DVDR?
written by Graffix Jester, December 30, 2007
I want to convert 1080i/720p h.264 mkv to HD DVDR playable on my Toshiba HD-A2. Is this possible with this software? I've tried with Nero Vision 8 but every time I try to add the mkv file it causes my computer to hang, looking for a solution.
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clarification
written by Graffix Jester, December 30, 2007
that might not be clear, what I mean is regular DVD5/DVD9 discs, but HD file structure so that it's able to do HD resolution video
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written by crawford, January 08, 2008
im hoping this program works I have tried atleast twenty diff. programs and went through a whole stack of DVD R disc... Nero was Prob. the worste program I had ever purchased.. It might as well been a virus i bought from nero... wish me luck
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junk
written by crawford, January 08, 2008
well another five discs. and still no movies.. This program actually was faster than nero.. But atleast nero would give me something on the disc... This program doesnt even seem to wanna try to burn...........................i would not let my worse enemies download this program.........SUCKS>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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good guide!
written by roger rabbit, January 16, 2008
Thanks for writing this - it helped me a lot burning an .mkv file to DVD!
The only thing that didn't work was adding the subtitles, but since I am knew to this and only got the .mkv from a friend, I don't even know if they existed in the container in the first place.
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written by viceroy56, January 23, 2008
Try ConvertX2DVD 3 RC2. I made a conversion of a 720p mkv file into a DVD5, including DTS audio and 2 subtitle files. The result was great, the time spend with conversion of a 100 minutes movie as I describe, on a P4/2.4/512 PC was about two hours and 30 minutes. New menu, can be modified almoust as you like it, chapters menu, audio menu, subtitle menu.
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@ crawford
written by iqhigherthanroomtemperature, February 05, 2008
are you at least able to find your butt with your own hands?
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Image(Titles) shakes.
written by Den1, February 22, 2008
First off all, great guide.
Thanks.

1 Question though, when i convert a HD.mkv file to dvd format the end result is that the image jumps up and down.
Its especially noticable with text and straight lines.

If you know about this problem of have a solution ?

TIA
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also @ crawford
written by DJCookie, March 12, 2008
that comment about your butt was a bit harsh ..... but i agree in full!!!
Have you put a disc in shiny side down? this can help alot when it comes to the burn process and may even result in a film!!!
Great little proggy worked a treat! I can see this having a nice fancy gui slapped over the top and having a very unreasonable price tag on. lol I Love it as it is thanks and keep up the good work.
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HELP NEEDED
written by liam545454, April 02, 2008
i try to convert an mpeg4 file that i have donwloaded off ________ and when i add it, it says "one or more files cannot be converted. See the log for more details". What is going wrong?
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written by Raj....., April 03, 2008
can it maintain the audio quality....?
from 4.1 or 5.1 to 5.1 good quality........?
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HELP NEEDED
written by Arjun, April 08, 2008
The problem I am facing is after i have converted the files and I want to make a dvd later not at the same time the software does mot read the files ...the folder is made in three catagroies 1.Audio_TS 2.Menu_Snaps And 3.VIDEO_TS ...when i run the software and go to the Burn project allready converted i does not accept the files
please help
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CONVERT X todvd-PULLDOWN REQUIRED FOR 30fps
written by animal, May 10, 2008
Hi there,

Could someone please help me with changing the Auto Target under Source Details from 25fps, no pulldown required to 30fps,pulldown required because I am converting to NTSC and even though I changed the Setting To NTSC. Thanks

animal
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ConvertXDVD (MKV to DVD)
written by eummagic, July 22, 2008
In ConvertXDVD even though the mkv files is 5.1 AC3 but after loading the mkv in the program it show output as 2 channels. Pls help...
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