How To Create Playable DVD After Using MakeMKV?

[dsimms]

First time using MakeMKV & Handbrake, so I have not gotten around to
moving movies from the HD to a blank DVD so they will play....

1: I use MakeMKV first...
2: Then I use handbrake to encode/shrink

Do I just copy the movie from Hard-drive to a blank DVD
and it will run in a dvd player, xbox, etc...
or is there more I need to do?

What type of blank DVDs would be best?

Thanks

[Woodstock]

You need DVD authoring software. MakeMKV and Handbrake aren't capable of that.

In fact, using handbrake is rather pointless if you're objective is to write DVDs that can be read in DVD players; the purpose of handbrake is to recode the video from the inefficient method used in DVDs to h.264 or h.265 format, and DVD players do not know how to deal with it. The DVD authoring software will then need to decompress the video, and put it back in the MPEG2 format that DVDs support... Net effect is that quality is lost.

Find an affordable package that accepts MKV files as inputs, and work from there.

[dsimms]

You need DVD authoring software. MakeMKV and Handbrake aren't capable of that.

In fact, using handbrake is rather pointless if you're objective is to write DVDs that can be read in DVD players; the purpose of handbrake is to recode the video from the inefficient method used in DVDs to h.264 or h.265 format, and DVD players do not know how to deal with it. The DVD authoring software will then need to decompress the video, and put it back in the MPEG2 format that DVDs support... Net effect is that quality is lost.

Find an affordable package that accepts MKV files as inputs, and work from there.

ok, i will look into it.

Thanks

PS. DVD is not the primary objective...but I thought as long as I have them
on DVD, then why not use in dvd player or xbox...but since there is more
involved, then I just may end up running a cable from computer to TV
and watch movies that way on the big screeen, and use DVD just for backups
so that I do not flood my disk space with movie this, movie that....

[ndjamena]

I've used DVD Styler several times.

It's free, let's you create menus and will do all the encoding for you.

[Woodstock]

If you want to use the DVDs as off-line storage, that is a different matter, but they won't be playable in a DVD player. Use handbrake to make the files smaller, and you can probably get away with single-layer disks in place of dual-layer. I have a few disks around here like that.

But, I also stopped doing that after a while. The original disk is my "backup", and I have a media server (rather than a local hard drive) that keeps the "working" portion of my collection. I went with a rather expensive unit, because I've got 15TB of video online right now (time to add another drive to it.... ), but everything I want to watch is available to all my network-attached video players, whenever I want. Well, whenever the power is on.