Answer Line: Streaming video to DVD
Paul Brandenburg asked how to save a streaming video and burn it onto a DVD.
December 10, 2012
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Paul Brandenburg asked how to save a streaming video and burn it onto a DVD.
Nick248 asked the Answer Line forum about optical drives. I figured it was time to go over the various types of CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray discs, and the drives that read and write to them. [Email your tech questions to answer@pcworld.com or post them on the PCW Answer Line forum .] I can’t blame anyone for being confused
Pioneer announced a new Blu-ray drive this week. The BDR-2208 will be the fastest drive available on the market—an internal 15x Blu-ray burner—and offers small businesses a cost-effective means of backing up and archiving important data.
If you’ve been using MakeMKV to rip Blu-ray movies to your hard drive, you may have noticed that the resulting MKV movies can be very, very large. If you want to reduce the size of those files without manually stepping through a lengthy and rather complex demuxing, transcoding, and remuxing process—or even looking those words up—downloading RipBot264 is the order of the day
MakeMKV ($50, 30-day free trial) has a simple little name, and there’s no big trick to transcoding a video from one container format to another. If that were all this utility did, it would be worthwhile, but boring. The discussion gets more interesting when you consider its ability to rip DVDs and (in the full, paid version) Blu-ray movies to your hard drive.