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J-Wile
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Hey guys so me and my friend really like this TV show (American Horror Story) and she missed the first few episodes of the new season and she isn't from the richest family so her mom shut off their internet to save money. She can't watch the old episodes and if she started in watching in the middle of the season it would be hard to understand etc. They don't rerun the first 3 episodes anymore on TV, I checked.

So my plan is to burn the episodes onto DVD's that will work from her DVD player. I will write a letter about how cool she is and wrap them up and put it in her locker at school and it has potential to be a killer present. I just could use some help with the technical aspect.

So I torrented the episodes in the best quality I could find, and they are .MKV files. I'm assuming I'll need to convert these to .Avi or .mp4 in order to burn them since .MKV is such a weird uncommon file (As far as I know)

1. So what is the best video converter that won't take away from the quality? These are 1 gig + files, so make sure the converter can handle them. I need this program to be free, or I need to be able to torrent it.

2. What file should I convert the MKV to in order for it to look/work the best on the DVDs?

3. What discs should I use/what will work the best?

will these be okay? http://www.officemax.com/technology/drives-memory-storage/cds-dvds-and-data-storage/dvd-media/product-prod2050054

I plan on having each episode on a different disc to make it easier for her to watch. If those won't be fast enough can you please recommend some? preferably a 10 pack because I won't have much use for DVD's after this. Please find them on bestbuy, office max, target, radio shack, or walmart because I live 10 miles away from those stores so I can go pick them up. Basically please find them on a website that has stores, not just an online store. (if the ones I linked aren't good enough)

4. What burner should I use?
I haven't burned a movie since like 2006, and when I did then it had a watermark because I used a shitty free burner. What is the best burner that is free that doesn't have an obnoxious watermark? If it isn't free I need to be able to torrent it, I can't really afford a software I'll only use a handful of times.

5. Once burned, will it be able to play on any DVD player? I don't know what kind she has but I'm assuming it's pretty basic. I'll test it on my player, and my ps3 before I give it to her.


I go to a tiny class C school and this is one of my last options with the ladies. She's like the only one that's fine that I have a chance with/isn't stuck up. Since she doesn't have everything handed to her she's super down to earth and cool and i really like her for that. So please NS, help a brotha out any info helps.

need any clarification on what I need just ask. Thanks. This is my life when I can't ski haha
Oct 31 2013 11:06AM
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SFB
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lol dude tell her to go to a library and use the free computers if she wants to watch that bad.
Oct 31 2013 11:09AM
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RubberSoul
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either help, say something funny, or shut up


anyway OP i can't really help cause i'm barely competent with all the video stuff but there are plenty of people on here that rock this shit so im sure someone will come along that can help
Oct 31 2013 11:13AM
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Blake.P
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honestly, i havent been able to figure it out. a better option is to burn them onto a data DVD so that she can just upload them to her computer and watch them there. you just cant watch them on a dvd player but a computer is just as good and a lot easier to do
Oct 31 2013 12:16PM
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JAHpow
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Or just throw them on a flash drive.
Oct 31 2013 12:57PM
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howlongcanausern
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shoulda bought a mac, don't have to worry about this shit
Oct 31 2013 1:18PM
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lineskier10
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just ask her to come over for dinner at your place, make sure to have large amounts of wine so it doesnt look like you are trying to get her drunk and make up something about how it is good with what you cooked, usually girls will drink more wine than shots of vodka or some shit with a meal and get a nice buzz then be like wow i have the episodes of whatever you didnt get to see lets watch it on my couch then have sex
Oct 31 2013 1:32PM
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J-Wile
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There has got to be a way to burn it so it plays in a dvd player, I've seen them before, just not sure what disc it was. Someone my friend new gave him a folder of like 50 movies burned to DVD's a few years ago and they worked fine. I'll figure it out.
Oct 31 2013 3:56PM
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Fluttershy
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wumbo try you setting it did to?
Oct 31 2013 4:22PM
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jibbpeter
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You could have used Google, but because im such a nice dude ill help.


1. Find a mkv to avi/dvd converter which also can burn it to the DVD-R when done converting. Xilisoft Avi to DVD converter works great for me, burns right on the disc after finishing converting and gives you the ability to create a menu so you can have more than one episode on each disk.
(mkv is high quality i know, but a 350mb .avi file play just as good on a TV and will look like dvd quality.)

2. Doublecheck that it works by playing it on your dvd player. Would be awkward if you gave her dvd's that don't work.

Oct 31 2013 4:49PM
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Cork3d
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Go outside

make fire

throw DVD's on it

Oct 31 2013 5:17PM
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J-Wile
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So first convert the MKV to AVI, then use xilisoft to convert the AVI to a DVD format, then xilisoft will burn to the DVD?
Oct 31 2013 5:26PM
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jibbpeter
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Yup, that works. But you can search for software that converts mkv straight to dvd.
Nov 1 2013 12:54PM
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