Dvd burning movies

[Rubberman]

Well I did try in terminal but my experience just doesn't able me to do what you are telling me. As much as I would love to be able to do this my capabilities don't allow me to.
I typed in mkdir and made up the file name
next sudo mount -o loop then I got lost. Is the dvd name what the actual iso file is called? And the dirname can this be what I like for example "relaxiso" nothing else?
Thanks

Yes, the dvd name is the name of the iso file, such as star_wars_iv.iso, and also yes, dirname is whatever you want as in your "relaxiso" example. IE, sudo mount -o loop star_wars_iv.iso relaxiso - then when you look in the directory "relaxiso" you should see at least VIDEO_TS as well as AUDIO_TS sub-directories, and possibly other stuff depending upon the DVD. At that point, you are ready to copy "relaxiso" and its contents to the thumb drive.

[reed9]

Without knowing your distro, I can't direct you to exact packages, but there are graphical tools to deal with mounting, extracting, and creating ISO files.

Look for acetone2, gmountiso, kiso, isomaster, or poweriso to name a couple. I know acetone2 does not have a package in the Ubuntu repos, and presumably therefore most other distros, so I included the website.

The other problem I faced was not being able to burn 2 or 3 iso's to the same DVD to save some space.

An ISO is a disc image. When you burn as an ISO...I'm not sure how to explain it, but it's a one to one correspondence. When you burn it as an image to your disc, that's it. When you burn it as data, however, you could put as many on the disc as you have available space. But your DVD player would not be able to read that.

You could create a DVD structure using devede or other dvd authoring program, which incorporates multiple videos that you then burn to the disc.

Other guides/tools that may be of use:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVDAuthoring
Converting to DVD - Avidemux2
A quick guide to DVD authoring | Linux.com