How to Convert MP4 to DVD for Playback on DVD Players

Since the movies and videos encoded in the MP4 (MPEG-4) format looks great, MP4 format is commonly used in various multimedia devices like iPod, iPhone and PlayStation Portable (PSP). However, sometimes you may want to watch MP4 videos or movies at home in a more easeful way, for example, to play it on your home DVD player. On this occasion, you need to burn MP4 to DVD.

In fact, converting MP4 to DVD is very easy if you choose the right DVD burning software. For Mac users, here we highly recommend you use Aimersoft DVD Creator for Mac, a professional DVD converter to help you directly burn MP4 video and movies to DVD for playback on any home DVD players on Mac (Snow Leopard, Lion included). Besides MP4, it can also burn popular video formats, such as AVI, WMV, MOV, MKV, FLV, MPG, etc. to DVD. Windows users can use the equivalent Windows version - Aimersoft DVD Creator.

Get the right one according to you situation and follow the steps below to burn MP4 (MPEG-4) videos to DVD either for playback on DVD players or backup.

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How to convert and burn MP4 to DVD?

Here let's take DVD Creator for Mac as an example to see how to burn DVD from MP4 videos on Mac in a few clicks. If you are a Windows user, please download Windows version and go to the detailed tutorial of DVD Creator >>

1 Add MP4 videos you want to burn to the program

Drag the target MP4 files directly into the program. The loaded files will be shown in thumbnail in the file list; you can merge, split or rearrange them by dragging freely according to your preference. The media browser allows you to import media files from iPhoto, iMovie or iTunes directly and quickly with one click.

2 Edit MP4 file (optional)

Highlight a file at the loaded file list and click "Edit" to enter the edit interface. You can crop, multiple trim, adjust effects, add watermarks and rotate your MP4 files before burning.

3 Customize DVD menu (Optional)

Click the "Menu" button on the lower right bottom of the main interface to enter the menu editing window. Choose a template among the pre-set animated or static templates. Customize DVD menu is available by click "Advanced Setting". With the upgraded Mac MP4 to DVD Creator, you can also add the nice Menu templates as your favorite menus for the next operation.

4 Start burning MP4 to DVD

Select "DVD" in the output options, and click "Start" to convert MP4 (MPEG-4) files to DVD on Mac after you have finished all the above operations that you preferred.

Here is the video tutorial on how to convert MP4 (MPEG-4) videos to DVD on Mac.

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About MP4: MP4 refers to MPEG-4 Part 14 or *.mp4, is a file format (also called container) specified as a part of the ISO/IEC MPEG-4 international standard. It is used to store media types defined by the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group, and can be used to store other media types as well. Generally speaking, MP4 is most commonly used to store digital audio and digital video streams, especially those defined by MPEG, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images.