May 26th, 2013 by Smile Harney
When try to create DVD from MP4 files, only to find can't burn MP4 to DVD? Though successfully burnt MP4 video to DVD disc, only to find can't play the created MP4 DVD files on DVD player? So what brought this on? How to solve these issues and successfully burn and play MP4 on DVD player? The following article will give the answer!
Why Can't Burn or Play MP4 on DVD Player?
Most DVDs have to use MPEG-2 or DivX, if you try to directly burn MP4 to DVD or your DVD burner app has no function of converting MP4 to MPEG-2, DivX, you will fail to burn MP4 to DVD disc.
Even if you have successfully burn MP4 to DVD without converting, you will still encounter issues in playing MP4 on DVD player: Regular standalone DVD players can only read movie DVD's (those are in MPEG-2, and if you view them in Windows Explorer, you see a folder structure with VIDEO_TS, and files like .VOB .IFO and .BUP). Newer DVD players that are DivX-certified can (in addition to the above) read data DVD's with an AVI file encoded in the DivX codec. Most of the time, you will fail to play MP4 on DVD player unless the DVD players have the "Nero Digital" label on them.
How to Play MP4 on All Kinds of DVD Players?
In order to burn MP4 to DVD for successfully playing on various DVD players, we had better find a powerful MP4 to DVD Video Converter which will automatically convert MP4 to DVD disc or DVD player compatible format.
Below will introduce the free download link of the just right MP4 to DVD Converter and a detailed guide on how to use this wonderful tool to successfully convert MP4 to DVD format for burn MP4 to DVD or play MP4 on DVD player.
Free download the right version of this MP4 to DVD Converter (Windows version, Mac version) according to your computer type.
Besides converting MP4 to DVD format, this powerful video converter also supports to convert 3GP, 3G2, ASF, AVI, DAT, DV, VOB, FLV, MKV, DVS(R)-MS, MPG, MPEG, TS, MOV, RM, RMVB, WMV, NSV, M2TS, MTS, MOV and etc to DVD supported video format
Click "Add File" button to import MP4 videos which you want to burn to DVD for play on DVD player.
Click the small triangle to the right of "Profile" and set "DivX Video (*avi)" as the output format from "General Video" Category.
To play HD MP4 on HD DVD player or Blu-ray disc Player, choose "DivX HD Video (*.avi)"from the "HD Video" category.
Click "Convert" button to convert MP4 to DivX or DivX HD.
Click "Open Folder" button to locate the converted MP4 files when your conversion is done, then simply burn the converted MP4 to DVD just as you burn other video to DVD disc, then simply play MP4 on DVD player as you like