Software assistance please

Can anyone recommend me a software (free) that would convert my divx, avi etc movies that I have on my laptop to a DVD disk, so I can watch it on the DVD player?

Cheers

Advanced X Video Converter

However, quicker to buy a DivX DVD player for $100

The advanced X video Converter just converts them from format to format, but does not burn them onto DVDs, from what I can see anyway...

Hrm, true.

I use Nero but it's not free.

However you could always download then hunt a serial...

Ya Nero Vison, is the only one I've ever used to do that. Be warned it takes FOREVER.

There a reason you can't buy an S-Video > RCA cable and just plug laptop into TV?

Laptop doesn't have an S-Video out kris.

Stink. Any way of maybe putting movies onto DVD disks and then watching them on the DVD player that plays dvix and avi? I have one of those DVD players that play all files under the sun.

Umm if your DVD player plays AVI / DIVX then you just burn the files to disk.

I don't have any burning software either. lol

For some reason my CD/DVD drive on laptop doesn't read half of the disks I put in too...

ffs

download nero shareware

There is no shareware version of Nero, time limited trial versions only.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-best-free-alternatives-to-nero-cddvd-burner/



Although it sounds like your drive is fucked anyway. The state of the rest of your laptop tallys with that :>

Yeah, I've got myself a trial version, which looks exactly what I want... But! Mother fucking error msg comes up: "Please insert a writable DVD", when I already have a writable DVD in it...

Ok, seems like a lot of people have encountered similar problem as me with this particular DVD hardware.

I have a Toshiba SD-R6372 writer. The firmware I have is RPC1 1032. I need to install RPC1 1732 according to the internets people. But, RPC1 firmware is not available from http://www.storage.toshiba.eu/index.php?id=112&pid=142&sid=12 for some reason.

So I found another source http://hijacker.rpc1.org/toshiba/index.php?path=SD-R6372/. Now this is where shit gets complicated for me...

These are the instructions:

1. Make Bootable Floppy Disk
2. Extract all files of the ZIP file onto Boot Disk
3. Reboot PC with Boot Disk inserted.
4. Type
update.bat <return>
F/W will now be updated (you may be prompted to insert a disk, any CD will do)
5. Wait for Flashing to finish.
6. Reboot PC

WFT, I don't even have a Floppy Disk!



Any idea peeps?

Can I put this onto a USB drive instead of Floppy Disk maybe?

Anyone?

yes

Cheers bud!