What's The Best Media Player

[The Cowboy]

What's the best Media Player for viewing downloaded movies, and do they have to be encoded before you can burn them to a disc?

Cowboy

[bankythehat]

VLC is my personal favorite. You can play almost any file type with it, and best of all it's free!

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

To burn to a DVD you will need some encoding software. I used nero vision express in the past but not sure if thats the best or what the alternatives are.

[OBonio]

Seconded for VLC.

As for encoding, depends on your DVD player. Mine plays DivX out of the box (this includes XVid too) so I just burn the AVI to a CD as a data file. Most modern DVD players support this I think and most downloaded things are XVid encoded.