I looked at the options in my existing Nero burning software, but there was nothing about converting MP4 to a format suitable for a standalone DVD player. I searched on the internet and found that you can’t just play an MP4 file on most standalone DVD players - it has to be converted to a compatible format first. I thought ‘Why not put it on a DVD and play it in my DVD player hooked up to the big screen TV?’ Well, why not? Unfortunately, it’s never that simple… I have 4 GB RAM in this PC (Windows XP) and the file was local, so the quality wasn’t what I’d expected. It was like it was buffering continually. However, when I tried to play it from a local folder on my computer, the video inside QuickTime was very ‘choppy’ - the sound didn’t synch with the mouth movements of the presenter, there was quite a bit of pixellation and various other video artefacts in the image no matter whether I viewed it at a small size or full size on my computer. The format of the video was MP4, which means it would only play in QuickTime, not Windows Media Player. I could have ordered a physical DVD, but there didn’t seem much point in paying extra for the physical DVD as well as postage from the US and then waiting a few weeks for it to get to me. I purchased a downloadable 500 MB quilting video from a US supplier the other day.
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