DVD Flick
Rating: 5
Version tested: 1.2.0 build 260 final
Description: DVD Flick is a free, open-source DVD authoring tool that can convert and write almost any video file or files into a DVD (or ISO) playable on any hardware DVD player
This program will let you (a) combine a single file or multiple files into a playable DVD, (b) add subtitles, and (c) add secondary audio tracks. It has a number of definite strengths, as follows:
- Simple, straightforward interface design. It is remarkable how simple and intuitive this UI is, especially for a DVD authoring tool. This alone is reason enough for me to switch to this program.
- Will convert almost any video file, which means that you are extremely likely to be able to put any video that you may have on your hard drive on DVD. This is not to be taken for granted, as I recently tried to convert a video file to DVD using another favorite program of mine, AVI2DVD, only to find that it was not able to handle the audio.
- A partial list of supported formats are as follows: AVI, MPG, MOV, WMV, ASF, FLV, Matroska and MP4. Supported codecs are amongst others, MPEG-1\2\4 (Xvid, DivX, etc.), Windows Media Audio\Video. MP3, OGG Vorbis, H264, and On2 VP5\6.
- You can convert to ISO image on hard disk if you do need want to burn to DVD or there’s not one handy.
One thing that this program does not have is the option to create a title menu with custom backgrounds and/or music. My guess (from looking at the program’s feedback page) is that this will be coming in a future version. In any case if you must have this use AVI2DVD.
This is the kind of freeware program that you just love, simple and sleek and gets the job done. If you want a simple program to convert your video files to playable DVD’s, it doesn’t get simpler than this. Highly recommended for any user, but especially if you are not technically inclined and just want something that is easy to use and just works!.
Compatibility: Windows 2000 professional, Win XP (Vista not tested). P3 or higher or AMD K-6 or better. 64MB Ram minimum.
Go to the download page to download the latest version. The program home page.
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This program works well BUT you need to be careful : when it says it will delete all files in the target folder, it means it ! Therefore a recommendation would be that when you specify a target folder for output, make sure it does NOT exist at the start of the job. Then if you get a prompt warning that ‘Folder already exists, all existing files will be deleted, do you want to proceed ?’ your default action should be NO. I lost a pile of personal data the first time I ran it - my own fault and it was backed up. But you may not always be so lucky - so be careful !
This program is AWESOME and FREE! You need a seperate burning program, I used Nero. It worked perfectly with good quality, converting an AVI download to DVD. I tried DVD Santa, the quality was not good and the soundtrack didn’t match the film. Try it, you have nothing to lose.
I was shopping around for good commercial tools and stumbled on DVD Flick. DVD Flick ROCKS. It solves so many of the common problems I had. Almost all input formats are supported. Out quality is great. I just threw away all the tools I bought.
I took 1.5 hrs to convert an avi with a subtitle (.srt) to a dvd iso. But it worked perfectly on my dvd player.