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How to Burn a DVD with Original Quality on Windows 11/10/8/7

Microsoft does not include Windows Media Center since Windows 10, which means Windows 11 and 10 no longer have a DVD burner function. Then how to burn a DVD in Windows now? It's pretty easy. With an efficient DVD burner, you can easily burn DVD to a disc and burn videos to DVDs on Windows (11/10).

How to burn a DVD

Burn DVDs Easily with the Best DVD Burner Software for Windows 11/10/8/7

WinX DVD Copy Pro [100% Clean and Safe!] - a top-notch DVD burner for Windows.

  • 1:1 burn DVD to DVD R/RW disc and burn ISO/folder to DVD with no quality loss.
  • Burn homemade discs and DVDs protected by region codes, CSS, RCE, Sony ARccOS, 99 titles, and any other copy protections.
  • Burn severely scratched DVDs with its Advanced Bad Sector Recover Engine.
  • The fastest burning speed and smoothest DVD burning process with its Multi-core CPU, sector-by-sector copy mode and other edge-cutting technologies.

Part 1. How to burn a DVD from ISO image/Video_TS folder in 3 steps.

If you have a pile of DVD ISO image files or Video_TS folders on hard drive waiting to burn to DVD disc, just follow the 3 steps below to burn ISO/folder to DVD easily. Burning ISO to DVD is much faster and smoother. Because they are not encrypted files as DVD disc, it can be read faster and burned without freezes or stops time to time, and reserves the original quality.

Before you begin to burn DVD, free download, install and launch WinX DVD Copy Pro on your Windows 11/10/8/7 PC.

  1. Step 1: Choose "DVD Burner" function under Tools option.
  2. Step 2: Click "Load ISO" button to load the ISO image files already stored on your PC hard drive and select the Target DVD Burner. If you've inserted a blank DVD, this DVD burner will auto check and display the basic disc info and burning info. (Here if your resource data file is DVD Video_TS folder, you can choose "Load DVD Folder" button to burn DVD folder to DVD.)
  3. Step 3: Confirm the disc info and click "Run" button to start to burn ISO/Folder to DVD.
How to burn a DVD with original quality

Part 2. How to burn a DVD to DVD directly.

You may also want to burn a DVD to a blank disc to have a safe copy. This is easy with WinX DVD Copy Pro as it offers the ability to clone DVD to DVD. You don't need to worry about any copy protections on the original disc.

Before you begin to burn DVD, free download, install and launch this DVD burning software on your computer.

  1. Step 1: Choose "Clone DVD to DVD" mode under Full DVD Disc Backup category.
  2. Step 2: Set the Source DVD and Target DVD Burner. Usually WinX DVD Copy Pro will auto detect your inserted DVD disc. If you have multiple DVD drives, click "Browse" button to choose one you want.
  3. Step 3: Preset the Temp Folder with "Browse" button to temporarily store the copied media file if you only have one DVD drive. Make sure the temp destination folder has larger than 9GB free space.
  4. Step 4: Then click "Run" button to start to burn DVD to DVD.

Final step: After finishing the above steps, if you only have one drive, it will pop up a window asking you to insert a blank DVD disc, do as it said and click "Burn" button to burn DVD to new disc; If you have two rewritable DVD drives, WinX DVD Copy Pro will auto analyze your DVD drive data and just click the "Burn" button to burn DVD to DVD directly.

How to burn a DVD to DVD

Part 3. How to burn a DVD from all kinds of videos

Need to burn video files to DVD? Try WinX DVD Author, a 100% safe and free DVD author program. It can easily burn MKV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, MOV, RM, RMVB, H.264, AVI, VOB, ISO image, and videos in any other formats to DVDs. Its fast and powerful decode encoder engine will ensure the best burning quality.

Before you learn how to burn videos to DVD, free download, install the free DVD burner on your Windows 11/10/8/7 PC.

  1. Step 1: Insert a blank disc into the computer's disc drive.
  2. Step 2: Run Winx DVD Author and click Video DVD Author button on the main interface. Click the Add Files (+) button to add the videos into source list.
  3. Step 3: Create DVD menu, adjust the settings, add subtitles, and choose output format, etc. based on your needs.
  4. Step 4: Click "Start" button to begin burning videos to DVD.
How to burn videos to DVD

How to Burn a DVD on Windows 10/8/7 with Best DVD Burning Software

WinX DVD Copy Pro – 1:1 burn DVD/ISO image to DVD with original quality in a fastest speed, also equips you with your up-to-date DVD backup needs, including cloning DVD to ISO; copying DVD to VIDEO_TS Folder; or copy DVD to single MPEG2 file keeping original video tracks and 5.1-channel AC3/DTS Dolby audio.

Disclaimer: Digiarty Software does not advocate burning copy-protected DVDs for any commercial purpose and suggests referring to the DVD copyright laws in your countries before doing so.

FAQ

1. What do I need to burn a DVD?

  • A computer with a DVD drive. If your computer doesn't contain an internal DVD drive, get an external disc drive.
  • A DVD burning program.
  • A blank disc. Choose a single-layer disc (4.7GB) or a dual-layer disc (8.5GB) based on the size of the video/DVD you need to burn. 

2. How to burn a DVD on Mac?

To burn a DVD on Mac, you can use the Finder method or the macOS app Burn. Below is how to burn a video to a DVD with Finder on Mac:

  1. Insert a DVD into the DVD drive of the Mac and open a Finder window.
  2. Drag the videos you want to burn to the Finder window.
  3. Click "File," then "Burn Disc." Confirm any prompts that appear and wait for the DVD to finish burning.

3. How to burn a DVD with Windows Media Player?

While the Windows Media Center is no longer available, the Windows Media Player can help burn CDs, Data CDs or DVDs.

  1. Open Windows Media Player and click the Burn tab, and then click the Burn options arrow.
  2. To burn video to a DVD, click Data CD or DVD.
  3. Open the disc drive and insert a blank DVD.
  4. Drag the videos that you want to burn to the list pane on the right side of Windows Media Player.
  5. You can rearrange the order of your burn list, drag items up or down the list, remove videos, etc.
  6. Then simply click Start Burn and it will burn the video to the disc.

4. What is the best DVD burning speed?

You may have seen DVD burning speeds like 4X, 8X, 16X, 24X, etc. The faster the burning speeds, the shorter time it requires to burn a DVD. For example, 4x DVD burn takes approximately 14-16 minutes while 8x DVD burn takes about 8-9 minutes. However, burning at very fast speeds is inherently less accurate than burning at low speeds. Moreover, if the DVD is burned at a higher speed while the DVD player plays the disc at a lower read speed, there will be freeze and skips during the playback.

Therefore, 8x speed is normally recommended to burn a DVD.

Disclaimer: Digiarty Software does not advocate burning copy-protected DVDs for any commercial purpose and suggests referring to the DVD copyright laws in your countries before doing so.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

author - Donna Peng

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Donna Peng's fascination with multimedia began at an early age - shortly after she licked the physical disc and then she's been obsessed ever since. Her decade-long career at Digiarty after the graduation has seen her unmatched expertise in the field of DVD, digital video, software and anything related to home theatre. She is currently fascinated with photography.

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