crackpot04

thanks again for your help mmalves

tomorrow i'm buying Verbatim DVD+R's, there more expensive but everybody says there the best, so i bow to their expertise, but i have a question and please excuse my ignorance, but i made a stupid mistake last time i tried to burn my films onto a DVD+R (Ritek), i had'nt converted to VOB; BUP and IFO files, i've now done that, DVDFlick did that for me and it created a VIDEO_TS map + an AUDIO_TS map, i've converted 3 films separately, put the 8-9 files, vob's, ifo's and bup's into an under map with the name of the film on it, if that's correct why do i need to create an ISO, secondly, when i open Imgburn do i click on "write image file to disk" or "write files/folders to disk" or does it make no difference? thirdly can anyone tell me why when i started with an Avi file of @700 Mb i've now ended up with a collection of files (vob, ifo and bup) that take up 4.1 Gb! i'm asking these questions because i can't find the answers anywhere, i've even googled it with no success, seriously confused and don't want to ruin the burn tomorrow through my own ignorance!!!

Thankyou very very much mmalves, i never realized this, i'm a newbie at this thing, many, many thanks!

can anyone tell me how i burn .avi or divx files, Imgburn does'nt recognize these files, i've put them in folders which i then burn, no problems but then i try to play them on my dvd program on my pc and it does'nt recognize the format, i'm really burning for my girlfriend to play on her dvd player at home, the trouble is if i take them out of their individual holders then Imgburn does'nt recognize them it only recognizes Vob, Iso whatever these are, i download from Vuze (bit torrent) and these are .avi, divx, mp4 etc, this is driving me nuts, i've used up 4 blank Dvd's already, disaster!! hoping someone can help.