oki burned a dvd using nero (i used the guid on this site to do it properley) well i tried playing it on my other pc drive (the drive was dvd) and it worked but i tried it on my xbox it didn't then i tried it on my friends dvd player still nothing. then i tried it at home again and it worked so i think somthing is wrong. it took 3min to burn it and it was a 700mb file i found that strange.any ways the file type i burned it on was MPEG cuz i noe most stand alone dvd players can't support AVI.
Mpegs won't play on a standalone DVD player. Mpegs are not DVD-Video compliant. PCs don't care if it is non compliant. Ypu need to "author" your mpeg using something like NeroVision Express 3, TMPGEnc DVD Author or Divx to DVD.
i got 1 question. if i burn any format that the video is it will become a dvd+r or dvd-r file. and um what types of formats work with stand alone dvd players.
Try reading this thread it explains one software thatr will convert mpeg to dvd video (that is what is dvd compatable) look through the afterdawn software there are programs that will convert this file for you. Also you may be able to utilize Nero Ultra v6 to create a new VCD or SVCD I'm not certain but I think that it may do this conversion for you; you can only burn VCD or SVCD to regular CD not DVD. Hope this helps http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/214016
There is no such thing as a DVD-R or DVD+R file. These indicate two different types of recordable DVD media. To play in a stand-alone DVD player the files must be DVD-Video compliant. As I said earlier, you must use an authoring or a conversion program to create the neccesary file structures. This will make your mpeg video compliant and playable on a stand-alone DVD player.
