Comments on: Author/create and burn DVDs with DVDFlick

By: mani

mani — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:21:57 +0000

i got tired of using dvdflick after i experienced so many errors!!.. it’s a pain!! so i deleted it!
now i’m a great fan of “convertXtoDVD”! very simple and easy to use even a child can do it!

i gave “convertXto DVD” a 5 star*****

By: td1

td1 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:23:25 +0000

One of the treats I give my grandkids (ages 2 – 8 ) is to (1) record cartoons (flash video) from YouTube, (2) convert those video files to mpeg or avi format, and (3) burn the converted files to dvd. It’s fun to do and the kids love them.

Regarding (1) and (2), I usually use Vdownloader. Regarding (3), I’ve had disappointing results with DVD Flick 1.3.0.7 and very pleasing results with DVDStyler 1.8.0.1.

The deal-breaker with DVD Flick is that the audio and video get out of sync. In some cases, extremely so. It seems worse when I have a multi-part cartoon that I am blending into one by adding the first title, then clicking ‘edit title’ > video > add title – and adding all other corresponding episodes/ chapters to make 1 seamless file. In fact, sometimes the audio and video are many many minutes apart (not seconds). I’ve tried some of the suggestions from DVDFlick’s forum, but with no success.

I do not experience this trouble with DVDStyler. For now, DVDStyler is my choice.

using Vdownloader and then burning the converte

By: Josh P

Josh P — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 18:50:29 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to clear up the burn/author confusion! This may be the last piece of the puzzle for me! I’ve been on a quest for a quality open source dvd author for a while. I had given up and was just hoping to get lucky on the GOTD site and run across a giveaway, but your suggestion sounds better. Oh, just in case there is someone else on a quality, open source quest like me, here is my choice for best open source video transcoder. http://handbrake.fr/

I know that is kind of a “DUH” on Handbrake, but maybe it’ll help someone!

By: manny

manny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:56:46 +0000

Sorry people, but i need HELP…everytime i tried to burn an hd movie. i’m always getting an error message:

W 07:57:19 Failed to Write Sectors 1279360 – 1279391 – Reason: Peripheral Device Write Fault
W 07:57:19 Retrying (1 of 20)…
W 07:57:19 Retry Failed – Reason: Illegal Mode For This Track
W 07:57:19 Retrying (2 of 20)

…it plays but only half the movie…
i have the latest version of dvd flick.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:44:34 +0000

I have downloaded 10 episodes of a TV series in AVI format.
I have used FormatFactory to convert them to VOB.
I have told DVDFlick to author 5 of those to an ISO (so that I can use Nero to do the burn).
The 5 VOB files are 3.7 GB so room to spare for my Disk 1
Why is DVDFlick going to take hours to encode it ?
Surely the VOB files can remain untouched, and DVDFlick just adds the necessary IFO etc files ?
And that would take lots less time, than is happening as we speak.
I suppose I am wondering why DVDFlick has to re-encode the VOB files ?

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:41:40 +0000

Tried many other software and could not get even one DVD to work properly in my living room DVD player.
With DVD Flick, first attempt, first success. Thank you so much for letting us about this software. No more confusion with authoring for me…I love your website, the quality and the pertinence of its informations. Just found about dotTech a few months ago…

By: matt

matt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:16:54 +0000

I love it!!! Much thanks to the creator.It’s simple & fits to my computer beautifuly! (VISTA home premium).

By: Sue D. Nymme

Sue D. Nymme — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:33:03 +0000

I ignored the error and can run DVDflick. It seems “okay”. Maybe I just need to learn how to use it more effectively, but it seems to be lacking some basic features.

One basic thing I wish to do with recorded television programs is to edit out commercials, and to set chapter marks within the program, so the viewer can jump to a desired scene. DVDflick seems to have no way to split a title into scenes, nor to delete scenes.

The “Edit Title” button allows you to change the thumbnail for the whole title by choosing a still frame, but provides no way for you to scroll through the video. You have to manually select hour, minute, second. With no sub-second granularity.

It allows you to make chapters, but NOT at arbitrary points within the title. You have the choice of creating a fixed number of chapters (presumably equal length), or to create a chapter every n minutes, or to create chapters on every video source.

The developers seem to have left off a “cancel” button from the “Edit Title” section. So if you screw up, you have no choice but to hit the Accept button.

There seems to be no way to preview the video, nor to scroll back and forth through the video as you’re setting it up.

Maybe I’m expecting too much. DVDflick seems to do next to nothing.

By: Sue D. Nymme

Sue D. Nymme — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:09:30 +0000

Seems not to work under Vista. I downloaded it and installed it and when I run it, right away I get:

“An error occurred during startup. Number 339 from dvdflick: Component ‘mscomct2.ocx or one of its dependencies is not correctly registered: A file is missing or invalid”

And looking at dvdflick’s forum, http://forums.dvdflick.net/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=10 it looks like a lot of other people are having this problem, with no apparent answer from the dvdflick people.

Oh well. :-/

By: Julie Samford

Julie Samford — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:09:49 +0000

Thanks for this information! I downloaded several programs yesterday and none seemed like a good fit for someone just trying to get a project done and not make a career investment out of the job of DVD authoring. Found you from your super comprehensive review on GOTD… thanks so much!

By: david roper

david roper — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 23:08:42 +0000

Great article. I knew DVDs had to be in VOB format but i never had success with any free ones that were supposed to do the job. This is a terrific find for me. Watch out Hollywood.

By: Jyo

Jyo — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:20:56 +0000

when I actually used and devoted 3 hours to burn around 700mb of mkv video files onto a dvd, I ended with videos with audio that were out of sync(about 2 months ago). has this ever happened to anybody here? it happened to me with version 1.3.0.7, latest one now. is there a possibility it might be my error?

By: Mario

Mario — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:33:03 +0000

I’ve been using DVDFlick for 2 or 3 years now and it is really slow, but quality is good and resources are plenty, so that doesn’t bother me – the computer is working not me, and I don’t do that much authoring, that time would be an issue. I only have one problem with it, and I think it is something with my computer : I just can’t make the menus work. I gave up, so if I put more than one show or film on the same DVD I keep on pressing next chapter until I get in there.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:31:44 +0000

Ashraf

While Ashampoo Burning Studio 2009 only burns as you said, I thought you’d like to know about their latest shareware. I happily abandoned Nero a few years back for Burning Studio 7. Studio 8 was even better software, and Burning Studio 9 finally adds a video editor to the mix. To be honest, I haven’t explored it much (movie making is not a habit), but it looks pretty decent and it’s nice to have integrated into the package. I’ll be inclined to use it when the mood strikes, and refuse to regret buying Sony Platinum Studio (one of those “fabulous deals” impulses).

Best