Cant get wmv file to convert to useable mpg to burn to movie dvd

Hi. Any help is appreciated with this.
Hi. Ive been having similar problems, for weeks now trying to burn this one movie project i made, using windows movie maker, of a wedding into a dvd movie.

My computer is a HP Pavillion notebook, running Windows XP SP2. My hardrive is formatted to NTSF.
Im using a brand new as of about a week ago CD/DVD R/RW 16X Double Layer burner by Memorex.
My connection is usb (1.0 I think rather then 2.0 as my notebook computer is about two years old now - HP Pavilion ZE5500. I also have a firewire port on computer but it is much smaller then the firewire connection and cable which came with the Memorex DVD burner, so cant connect via that.


I created project with Windows Movie Maker, and burned it into a wmv as the only other option was to save it as an AVI file, which would have been way to huge.

Now Ive tried using NeroVision Express 2 and its related programs, Sonic MYDVD,TMPGE, and Blaze Media Pro. NONE of these programs are working.
The farthest Ive been able to do is to convert the original wmv format movie file into an mpeg2 using TMPGE 3.0 Express & DVD Author 1.6 to try to burn it into a DVD rom with menus, etc - but it does not play on my dvd burner, and does not display on my computer dvd player as a dvd, just created a volume 1 folder on my hardrive - which contains one video_TS & one Audio-TS folder. The audio folder is for some reason empty (and though one of the attempted burned dvds will play on my computer but without the dvd startpage, menu, dvd interactiveness - the audio is gone in its playback from dvdr),
and the video-TS folder contains 2 .BUP files (one prefix VIDEO_TS & other VTS-01-0, 2 IFO files, and 6 VOB files.

Why cant i just bring in my original wmv format,
OR the converted video using TMPGE which seperated it into two files - one a .m2v file and the other a .wav file.

Anyone know what is going wrong here? Why wont they burn correctly into dvd?
One of the errors ive received when trying the lame MyDVD software to burn either the wmv format or from the mpeg format to interactive DVD shows a red circle with white X in it and says "Could not complete the last command because: Invalid stream file type (DVDErr,-19931). Okay, I dont understand why or what that means and how to fix it? Why dont any of these programs just burn the formats simply and effectively like they claim to? Its been two weeks now Ive been tring to get this video to make to dvd, when it should have been just a couple friggin minutes.!

I tried again over the night, thinking maybe the frame rate of converted video was off, so tried again using tmpge convertor i converted video to mpg2 with frame rate of 29.97fps.
THe video plays fine on my computer, but when i try to load it into NeroVision Express 2 to create menu, themes, etc to then burn into a dvd movie, though it shows the file when browsing for supported file types in the browse window of Nero, when i select this file it takes about ten or more seconds then the browse window disappears / closes but the mpg file does not show up in the project area. Its like it recognizes the file enough to show it as a supported file type, but wont actually accept it into the program to use, edit and or burn to dvd.

Im soooo confused!? What is wrong with these programs?
How can i work around this nonsense?

 

So what you are trying to say is that you want want to convert a .wmv to DvD. you can acomplish this by using Avi2Dvd

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/video_software/video_tools/avi2dvd.cfm

then use this guide to burn the files to a dvd using nero

http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/burning_dvd_with_nero.cfm


If you want to add menus and such i suggest you get a dvd authoring application like WinDvd creator