How to Burn MP4 to DVD in Windows 7, Windows 8 and 8.1 with Free Tools
If you want your photos, videos and other media transferred on a DVD for safekeeping and easy transfer to others, you will need a software to burn files to DVD. There are more than one software available that do the job but if you want a free software to burn MP4 to DVD for Windows 7, 8, or 8.1, try one of the following.
DVDStyler
DVDStyler is the best free tool to burn MP4 to DVD in Windows 8. It does not require any complex steps to do so and its installation is pretty simple too. All you need to do in download the software, click next a few times till it is installed and start using it for your first project.
To start burning your MP4 files to DVD, create a new project in DVDStyler, optionally provide any title you want to give to it, and/or set bit rates and essentially you are good to go except for selecting the MP4 files for burning to DVD. However you have the option to add any templates you want on the next screen. You can choose from a range of templates and then select the files for CD burning.
An additional benefit of this free DVD burning software is you can create ISO files with it, without using any physical disks. You can create ISO files and use them later to mount and play DVDs.
DVD Flick
If you are not sure about which audio formats will go with which video formats to be burnt on DVDs as MP4 files, use this free software to create DVDs. It supports 60 audio and video codec and 45 video formats. You don’t need to worry about your files anymore, just select any files and it will support the format.
The good thing is you don’t have to know or change the bit rate of any files you add and the final bit rate, this software will do that automatically for cd burning. You can add menus and subtitles in your videos, and even create separate chapters in your videos so it pretty much does some basic video editing too, for you. Not only this, you can also set aspect ratio for video to be burnt on DVD as MP4 in Windows 7, 8 and 8.1.
Video to DVD Converter
This is another free software to convert videos to MP4 DVDs. It is recommended for people who want to avoid complexity of software for DVD burning and simply want their videos on physical disks. The down side of this might be that it does not offer any flexibility of bit rate changing or setting aspect ratios and adding chapters of subtitles but the good thing is MP4 to DVD burning could not have been made easier. In short if you don’t need any editing of video, this is the best and pretty easy tool for burning videos to DVD.
Verdict
For simple DVD burning, all these are great and offer basic features free for burning videos to DVD player compatible DVDs, for professional videos motion menus and built in transcoding, you can pay a little and use Bombono DVD.
