What is an ISO file? Can it be played on a home DVD player?

Question

I hear everybody talking about them and I jus got a computer capable of burning DVD's. I'm also getting a lot of free software recommendations but none of them are working at the time for burning DVD videos. If someone could please help me out, i would be very thankful.

Answer 1

A ISO file is a file that would contain a computer OS like linux. When you go to www.ubuntu.com and download it, it's a .iso file that you are downloading.

Answer 2

a .iso file is just a disc image file. It could be a CD image, it could be a DVD image, but regardless it needs to be burned on to a disc to be played in a home DVD player. It could contain a computer program instead of a movie. If the .iso is larger than roughly 714mb, then it's a DVD. Smaller, it's a CD.

Use IMGburn to burn it to disc:

www.imgburn.com

If you want to use it on your computer, you can "mount" it without actually burning it to a disc with a virtual optical drive such as Daemon Tools:

http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/download...

Answer 3

Maybe dvd ceator can help you out.

Step by step guide:

http://www.topsreviews.com/guides/cucuso...

Unbiased reviews and side-by-side comparisons of the DVD creator give you enough information to research the ins and outs of a particular product:

http://www.topsreviews.com/reviews/dvd-c...

Also, you can search some other software:

http://www.ask.com