Let's convert DAT video to DVD to playback on TV or DVD Player

Have you heard of DAT video? We often see it in VCD, and in VCD the DAT video is MEG video. It is converted from MPEG-1 when burning. We may also come cross this video online. So in this guide I will show you how to burn DAT video to DVD disc for playback on TV DVD or players. Besides, you'll get to know how to make a DAT video slideshow with customizable menu and transitions.

All you need is a powerful DVD creator like Wondershare Video to DVD Burner which supports converting DAT to DVD. You can download Wondershare Video to DVD Burner free from this official website. You can follow the following steps to get it done.

Step 1: Add DAT Video Files

Click "Load Video" to browse your computer and find the DAT movies, then add DAT movies from your hard drive to the program. Well they will appear in the collections pane.



Step 2: Convert DAT to DVD directly

If you don't want to add any special effect and just want to convert one DAT file to DVD, of course you can do that directly. Just select the DAT video file in the collections pane, click "Burn" tab, a window will pop up for you to set the output target(you can convert DAT to DVD disc, DVD folder, or ISO), aspect ratio, etc.



But if you want to convert multiple DAT movies or videos together to one DVD disc, making a slideshow would be a good choice for you!

Step 3: Combine multiple DAT movies to a slideshow

Drag and drop DAT movies from the collections pane to storyboard to start organizing a slideshow.

Order: You can sort the order of the DAT movies in the storyboard by dragging and dropping.

Add a slide: right click mouse and select the first option "Add Slideshow" to add a slide. Then you can add DAT movies to this slide. There are two other options: "Remove Slideshow" and "Play Slideshow", just do as you like.

Edit a video: select a DAT movie in the storyboard, right click mouse, and you will see three options: "Edit", "Remove", and "Clear All". Just select "Edit" to edit video effects.

Step 4: Set Transition

Click "Transition" and you will see all the available transition effects in the transition pane. A simple click could help you to display the transition effect in the right window. Just drag and drop the transition effect you want to apply to the middle of two DAT files in the slideshow storyboard.



Step 5: Customize DVD Menu

Click "Menu" to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it.

You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.



Step 6: Preview and Burn

Preview: click "Preview" to preview your slideshow. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.

Burn: this step is the same as the second step. Please go back to Step 2.

TV Standard: "NTSC" is 30 fps, which is used in USA, Canada and Japan; "PAL" is 25fps, which is used in Europe and Asia.

Tips: The used disc space is shown on the disc space bar underneath the storyboard; You can select the size of burning DVD between "DVD-R4.5G" and "DVD-R9.0G"; The output quality is also up to your choice, you may select "Low video quality", "High video quality" or "Highest video quality".

Now you have burned the DTA video to DVD Disc. You can enjoy the video on TV or DVD Player together with your friends and family.

Enjoy MKV Movie on TV or DVD Player

Some people may wonder how to convert MKV to DVD so as to enjoy HD MKV movies on DVD players. They even tend to use a video converter to converter MKV to AVI, then burn AVI to DVD disc. Actually, the conversion is completely needless if you have a powerful DVD Creator which supports converting MKV to DVD.

Wondershare Video to DVD Burner is such an app to convert MKV to DVD for you to watch HD MKV movies on DVD players. What's more, you can easily edit MKV movies, combine several MKV files together to a MKV video slideshow with customizable menu and transitions.

To free download Video to DVD Burner, please click the button below. Operation is quite easy, try for free!


Convert MKV to DVD 1: Add MKV files

Click "Load Video" to browse your computer and find the MKV movies, then add MKV movies from your hard drive to the program. Then they will appear in the collections pane.



Convert MKV to DVD 2: Convert MKV to DVD directly

If you don't want to add any special effect, of course you can convert MKV to DVD directly. Just select the MKV movie in the collections pane, click "Burn" tab, a window will pop up for you to set the output target(you can convert MKV to DVD disc, DVD folder, or ISO), aspect ratio, etc.



But if you want to convert multiple MKV movies or videos together to one DVD disc, making a slideshow would be a good choice for you!

Convert MKV to DVD 3: Combine multiple MKV movies to a slideshow

Drag and drop MKV movies from the collections pane to storyboard to start organizing a slideshow.


Order: You can sort the order of the MKV movies in the storyboard by dragging and dropping.

Add a slide: right click mouse and select the first option "Add Slideshow" to add a slide. Then you can add MKV movies to this slide. There are two other options: "Remove Slideshow" and "Play Slideshow", just do as you like.

Edit a video: select a MKV movie in the storyboard, right click mouse, and you will see three options: "Edit", "Remove", and "Clear All". Just select "Edit" to edit video effects.

Convert MKV to DVD 4: Transition

Click "Transition" and you will see all the available transition effects in the transition pane. A simple click could help you to display the transition effect in the right window. Just drag and drop the transition effect you want to apply to the middle of two MKV movies in the slideshow storyboard.



Convert MKV to DVD 5: Menu

Click "Menu" to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it.

You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.



Convert MKV to DVD 6: Preview and Burn

Preview: click "Preview" to preview your slideshow. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.

Burn: this step is the same as the second step. Go back to Step 2.

TV Standard: "NTSC" is 30 fps, which is used in USA, Canada and Japan; "PAL" is 25fps, which is used in Europe and Asia.

Tips: The used disc space is shown on the disc space bar underneath the storyboard; You can select the size of burning DVD between "DVD-R4.5G" and "DVD-R9.0G"; The output quality is also up to your choice, you may select "Low video quality", "High video quality" or "Highest video quality".

To download Wondershare Video to DVD Burner to convert MKV to DVD, please click the button below:


Or go to learn more about Video to DVD Burner

How to burn QuickTime Movie to DVD?

While QuickTime movies could not be played directly on DVD player, it is a good idea to convert QuickTime movies to DVD and burn them to a DVD disc. You will need a DVD burner program to have the job done. Below is a step-by-step guide. Try, and you will get it!

Step 1: Download Video to DVD Burner
Follow the installation wizard. What you download is a free trial version and you may uninstall it anytime you want.
During the installation process, you can insert DVD +R (DVD-R, DVD+RW or DVD-RW) into DVD-ROM.
Note: The DVD-ROM should have writing and recording functions.

Step 2: Add QuickTime movies
Click "Load Video" or select "Load Video" under the "File" drop-down menu to load QuickTime movies from your hard drive. Multiple video files could be added at a time. After the video files have been added, they will appear in the main interface. Display the loaded QuickTime movie by double click to choose the video files which you want to convert.


Step 3: Organize a slideshow
If you have multiple video clips and want to burn them to a disc, organizing a video slideshow with customizable menu, transition effects and background music is a good choice for you. Just drag & drop loaded video files from the main interface to the storyboard below to start organizing a slideshow.
Order: You can sort the order of the video files in the storyboard by dragging and dropping.


Edit: Select a loaded video in the storyboard, click "edit selected video file", you may see a window with a box below for settings. There are five tabs here for you to crop the size, to trim the length, to adjust the video effect, to design your watermark and to plug-in subtitle.

Transition: Click "Transition" and you will see all the available transition effects in the transition pane. A simple click could help you to display the transition effect in the right window. Just drag and drop the transition effect you want to apply to the middle of two video files in the slideshow storyboard.

Step 4: Customize DVD menu
Click "Menu" to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it.
You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.


Step 5: Preview and start burning
Click preview button to preview your slideshow to check is everything goes right. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.
At last, click "Start" to make the last settings like TV standard and Aspect ratio. Then start burning your QuickTime movies to DVD disc, or you may also burn it to ISO images files or DVD folder (with VOB files in it) saved on your hard drive.

How to protect, backup and enhance DVD discs

While protection of DVD discs seems to be commonsense in many people's eyes, they are likely to have overlooked the fact that overtime, DVDs can become scratched, damaged and even completely unusable. Buying new one is of course not a good idea, since it costs much and you may be no longer able to find the one that you have bought before. Therefore, it is very important for DVD owners to know correct ways of protecting their DVD collections.

During daily usage, we need to note the following things:

1. Common sense: Do not use fingers to touch the shiny disc surface. Handle discs by the outer edge or the center hole. Keep dirt, foreign material, fingerprints, smudges, and liquids from the disc and wipe them with a clean cotton fabric in a straight line from the center of the disc toward the outer edge.

2. Store discs upright (book style) in original jewel cases that are specified for CDs and DVDs and not store discs horizontally for a long time (years).

3. Leave discs in their spindle or jewel case to minimize the effects of environmental changes. Store in a cool, dry, dark environment in which the air is clean -- relative humidity should be in the range 20% - 50% (RH) and temperature should be in the range 4°C - 20°C. Do not expose recordable discs to prolonged sunlight or other sources of UV light.

4. Use a non solvent-based felt-tip permanent marker to mark the label side of the disc. Do not write or mark in the data area of the disc (area where the laser reads).

Protecting your DVDs is essential of course, while maximizing their value is of greater importance. Therefore, to make a step further, you can do more to backup and enhance them.

With Free Ripping Software

Commercial movie DVDs are copyright protected which prevent users from copying them. However, we sometimes do need some DVDs for personal use or recreation. In this case, we can turn to a DVD ripping program for help. Here I'd like to recommend HandBrake, since it is a free program available for Mac, Linux and Windows, and can extract any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted) to your computer within a few steps. Download and install HandBrake and insert the DVD into your DVD drive. If your DVD Player application opens, exit the DVD Player application. Open the HandBrake application and select Detected volume and click on Open. Wait as HandBrake detects the titles on your DVD. Leave the default settings or choose the settings you wish. For best quality, select Video: 2-pass encoding. The whole ripping process is within a few simple steps. But since it is totally free, it does have some limitations:

1. It only support MP4, MKV, or OGM format. If you want to rip DVD to other formats, HandBrake offers no solution.

2. I sometimes center on more video editing like length trimming. However, HandBrake frustrates me a lot.

3. Not all DVD's are supported by HandBrake. Those with protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software.

With DVD Copy Software

Under the circumstances, you may turn to other DVD ripping software, or select to use a DVD copy program to backup DVD discs. Take Wondershare DVD Copy as an example, it can crack DVD copyright protection like CSS, RC and RCE automatically, and copy DVD to computer by saving as DVD folder or ISO image files, and copy DVD to another DVD disc (DVD Copy from DVD-9 to DVD-5, DVD supported). What attracts me most is that it supports three copy modes: full movie, main movie and custom mode. So you can just copy only the main movie or preview and select desired titles to copy. The operation is quite simple:

1. Select Copy Source from your DVD drive and DVD folder saved on your computer.

2. Select Output Target from DVD disc, DVD folder and ISO image. If you want to copy DVD to DVD disc, then you need to select disc from DVD-9 and DVD-5. DVD Copy from DVD-9 to DVD-5 is also available.

3. Select Copy Mode from full movie, main movie and custom mode. If you click custom mode, a window will popup for you to select titles on DVD to preview and copy.

4. Click "Start" to start copying your DVD.

How to burn a copyright protected DVD? How to copy protected DVDs to computer or to another DVD disc? Generally speaking, commercially produced DVDs that you have bought are protected by a variety of protections like CSS, RC and RCE. Here we use Wondershare DVD Copy, which can copy protected DVDs and even copy D9 DVD to D5 DVD, to have the job done in five steps:

DVD Step 1: Download and install Wondershare DVD Copy.

DVD Step 2: Select DVD Source.

After you have installed and launched Wondershare DVD Copy, insert the copyright protected DVD disc to your DVD driver. Click the “Source"drop-down menu,you will see two options: "DVD Folder" and "DVD-ROM". Select the DVD driver where the copyright protected DVD is inserted.
If you want to copy a DVD folder (with vob files in it) on your computer) which is also copyright protected, just select "DVD folder" and browse your computer to locate it.

Step 3: Select DVD Target Click the “Target"drop-down menu to select a target to output the selected DVD movie. Wondershare DVD Copy will bypass DVD copyright protection automatically and copy protected DVDs directly.

Copy DVD to ISO or DVD folder: If you want to backup your DVD movie to computer as DVD folder or ISO image file, you can select between “DVD Dolder"and "Image File" option, and specify a directory to save the copied DVD movie.

Copy DVD to DVD disc: Wondershare DVD Copy supports all popular DVD discs which include: DVD–5 and DVD–9; DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL,and DVD-RAM.

If you are copying a DVD disc from your DVD-ROM to a blank DVD disc, Wondershare DVD Copy will ask you to insert a blank DVD disc when the program gets ready to burn. Then you can just take the original DVD disc out and insert a blank DVD disc.

But if you have two or multiple DVD Burners, you just need to change object DVD to another DVD burner and insert a blank disc into it , then Wondershare DVD Copy will automatically copy DVD movie to the new DVD disc. No need to wait for the conversion to insert a new blank DVD disc.

Step 4: Select Copy Mode.
Click the "Copy mode" drop-down list you will see three options: "Full Movie", "Main Movie", and "Custom Mode".

Full Movie: If you want to copy the whole videos from the dvd disc, you can select "Full Movie" mode;
Main Movie: If you only want to copy the main movie, not the feature, the introduction of upcoming movies or other info that are not related with the movie you want, just select the "Main Movie" mode;
Custom Mode: if you want to copy exact titles which you desire, you can select "Custom Mode" and select your desired titles, then preview selected ones and deside which titles you will copy.

Copy copyright protected DVD Step: Start copying
After all things done, click "Start" to start copying DVD. The copying process will be complete in a few minutes.

How to free download YouTube video and convert it to DVD?

Go to youTube to watch our favorite video is everyone’s hobby. Have you ever thought about a better watching method? Download the youTube video on our own PC, and burn them to DVD, inviting friends and family members to watch them together on TV. Wow, this sounds great. Here I will share with all learning how to get it done.

We need 2 parts
Part 1: Learn to free download youtube video.
Part 2: Learn to burn the video to DVD Disc.

Part 1: free download youTube video
Go to the site to download Free YouTube Downloader. This software can automatically detect Youtube movies that have been opened and can download multiple files at a time. Refer to the screenshot below:


Make sure you turn the recorder on, so every Youtube movie can be automatically added to download. By default, the downloaded
files are saved under C:\Program Files\Wondershare\Free YouTube Downloader\Categories. You can also sort your files using the sub-categories.

Part2. Converter youtube video to a DVD
After downloading the videos to your local computer, download Video to DVD Burner for creating a DVD. Just follow this 4 steps to get it done.

Step 1: Organize your slideshow
Click the 'Load file' button to load the video files you want to burn. Then drag & drop the loaded files from the Collections pane to the slideshow storyboard to start organize your slideshow. You can sort the order of the video files in a slideshow by drag them in the storyboard. Click the Add Slideshow button (the first button from the left above the storyboard).


Step 2: effect adjustment
Click the Effect tab and you will see all the available transitions in the Effect pane, to apply a transition, you can just drag and drop it to into the slideshow storyboard.


Step 3: Customize DVD menu (Optional)
Click the Menu tab to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.


Step4. Start Burning
After you finish the three steps above, click the Burn tab to prepare for burning your project to blank DVDs.


After finishing you can watch the youtube video on TV together with your friends and family.

How to burn AVI to DVD

Now the most pop video files are AVI. We usually need burn these AVI videos to DVD for playable on TV/ portable players or share with friends. Here please follow only 5 steps to get it done with Wondershare AVI to DVD Burner. First of all, you should download Wondershare AVI to DVD Burner and install it.

Step 1: Organize your slideshow
Click the ‘Load video’ button to load the video files you want to burn. Then select the loaded files and click the ‘Add to Titleset’ button. Thus you can organize your slideshow. You can sort the order of the video files in a slideshow by drag them in the storyboard. Click the Add Titleset button (the first button from the left above the storyboard) to add the second Titleset.


Step 2: Adjust Effects
Click the Transition tab and you will see all the available transitions in the Effect panel, to apply a transition, you can just drag and drop it to into the slideshow storyboard.


Step 3: Add customize DVD menu (Optional)
Click the Menu tab to customize your DVD menu. There are different styles of built-in templates, frames and buttons for your choice. To apply a template, frame or button, you can just double click it. You can even add text, background music and background image to customize the menu.


Step 4: Preview your video slideshow(s)
Click the Preview tab to preview your slideshow project by click the preview control buttons. This step is to help you decide if everything is what you have expected. If not, you can go back to any of the previous steps to make changes to your project.


Step 5: Burning
After you finish the four steps above, click the Burn tab to prepare for burning your project. If you want to burn your project directly to the DVD disc you have inserted in your DVD-ROM, you can just select “DVD” in the “Burn to” field, specify a temp folder (used to save the generated temporary files), select your DVD drive and burning program (either built-in or your own burning application), select your TV Standard and output aspect ration, and click Start to burn your project.
If you just want to create DVD files or an ISO file for the current project, you can just select the “DVD Folder” or “ISO file” option, specify a folder to save them, and click Start to generate DVD files or ISO onto your computer.


Note: If you want to burn highest quality DVD without any losses, just select the ‘Highest video quality’ option.

Download Wondershare AVI to DVD Burner for free now.