Well, here are somereasons why we can't Burn or Play MP4 on DVD Player:
1. Majority of DVD players only accept MPEG-2 in a standard VOB format, and very few of them are compatible with MPEG-4 videos.
2. All standard DVD accept videos that conform to a certain resolution and BVOP settings. For instance, a majority of DVD players limit import to a resolution of 720 by 756 or 720 by 480. While, if you got some MP4 files with greater than this, your DVD players will not have the capacity to play it.
3. Newer models of DVD players can be able to play AVI files on one and only one condition, the AVI file has to be further encoded with another codec such as Xvid, Divx, WMV and MPEG-1 just to name a few. And MP4 wouldn't be supported.
How to Play MP4 on All Kinds of DVD Players?
If you have downloaded movies or recorded clips in the MP4 video format, I suggest you convert MP4 format to fully compatible format with DVD player or burn the files onto a DVD directly for playback on a DVD player.
Solution 1: Convert MP4 to DVD Player
If you don't want to spend much time to burning MP4 to DVD for later playback, we had better find a powerful MP4 to DVD Player Converter which will automatically convert MP4 to DVD disc or DVD player supported MPEG-2/AVI format for smooth playback. Here Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac is highly recommended for you to convert MP4 files to DVD. It is a professional all-in-one video converter program that supports converting MP4 to DVD Player format with best quality on Mac (macos Sierra included).
Besides MP4, it can also convert other popular video formats like AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, MPEG, FLV, 3GP, ASF, etc. to DVD. No technical knowledge is required! What's more, it supports customized profile for TV, VR, iPhone, iPad, Android, FCP, Avid MC, Premiere, etc. If you're a Windows user, simply turn to Dimo Video Converter Ultimate, which the same function as the Windows version. Now just download the right version of the Video Converter software and follow the guide to convert MP4 to DVD videos without any hassles.
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Tutorial: Convert and Play MP4 on DVD Player
1. Simply drag-and-drop your MP4 video to the program window or click "Add File" button to load MP4 files. You can add multiple files one by one at a time an convert them in batch. You can backup MP4 to ISO files before MP4 conversion.
2. Click "Select Format" bar and choose one of the above mentioned DVD player supported video formats. You can choose AVI or MPEG-2 from "Format > Video" as the output format. If you require for high quality, select HD AVI or HD MPG from "Format > HD Video" as the target format.
Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. You can adjust the output file size as 1920x1080, frame rate as 6-30fps, bitrate as 30Mbps, audio codec as MP3.
3. After all necessary settings, hit on the "Start" button to start converting MP4 to DVD player format. You can view the duration and remaining time of the conversion process. Once the process completes, click the Open button to get the output fillies. Then transfer the generated files to your USB drive, plug the USB drive into your DVD Player's USB port. Then putting your MP4 onto a DVD to play on your TV can be easy.
Solution 2. Burn MP4 to DVD player for playback
If there are no USB ports on your DVD player, you can opt to burn MP4 files to DVD disc for directly playing on DVD players with the following 3 free DVD Creator.
Tiny Burner: An excellent freeware app that works with CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. The installer also comes with a 32-bit and 64-bit version and will install the appropriate version automatically. Just load your disc into the drive, drag and drop the files you want and click the Burn icon to burn the disc.
StarBurn: A nice full-featured CD/DVD/Blu-ray burning app. It has a nice GUI interface that splits your burning options into audio, video, and data. You can burn images and build ISO images also. Unique features include the ability to erase a disc and to compress audio.
True Burner: It can burn standard, multi-session and bootable CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs. It's got a very simple user interface and not a whole lot of settings. It doesn't have a lot of advanced features like ImgBurn, but it gets the job done and it works well.
Note: If you try to directly burn MP4 to DVD or your DVD burner app has no function of converting MP4 to MPEG-2, DivX, you will fail to burn MP4 to DVD disc. If the MP4 is not on either a video CD or DVD, even if you have successfully burn MP4 to DVD without converting, you will still encounter issues in playing MP4 on DVD player: Regular standalone DVD players can only read movie DVDs (those are in MPEG-2, and if you view them in Windows Explorer, you see a folder structure with VIDEO_TS, and files like .VOB .IFO and .BUP).
What's more, newer DVD players that are DivX-certified can (in addition to the above) read data DVDs with an AVI file encoded in the DivX codec. Most of the time, you will fail to play MP4 on DVD player unless the DVD players have the "Nero Digital" label on them.
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