Help! I am an extreme newbie. I am trying to burn a dvd from video files on my computer. The dvd will burn, and will play on the computer, but it will NOT play in any of my dvd players. I have tried dvd+r and dvd-r. I have an emerson and it has played other burned media i have, but not the things i try to burn. My burn program is Roxio 8. The dvd drive is a dvd+/-rw 16x double layer drive. What am I doing wrong, or what do I need to do?
What type of Video files are they? Are they DVD complient in a VIDEO_TS AUDIO_TS folder? How are you burrning them with Roxio?
I have no idea what kind of folder that is. told ya i'm a newbie. lol They are basic mpeg, mp4, mpg etc files that i have downloaded and now want to put on a disc. i burned using my dvd8, from roxio and just went to create dvd, add movie for the files, then hit burn.
The only way it would work that way is if you had a DVD player that played Xvid/DivX(MPEG4)Files. You can get those players for around $55 from Wal-Mart or BestBuy etc. etc. Other then that you would have to convert the AVI(MPEG4) files into DVD complient files. I have no idea if Roxio even has a program to do this. I use Nero Vision myself. But there are other stand alone converter programs out there that will conver those files to DVD complient folders. I have no clue at any that are free but I have used WinAVI before to do this. Google it and you will find links where you can download it. Other then that i cant help you on how to do this with Roxio or even if you can since I dont use that program.
so even if the file is mpeg, mpg, i still have to convert the files? why would it play other burned dvd's i've had given to me, but not the ones i burned myself? all my dvd players are emerson brand from walmart..
You have to have them in VIDEO_TS or sometimes they have VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folder. In order for your DVD player to play MPEG files it has to be compatible with your DVD player. The only DVD players that i have that play mt MPEG files is my Xvid/DivX DVD compatible players. The other DVD players will not play just MPEG files. They have to be converted to DVD complient files which are VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders.
Wow! I really need to learn more about this stuff. So, any idea how to find out if I have these folders? Or how I can convert them into the format to play? And if I get a player that will play the divX--would it still be burned as a regular dvd? Cuz when I put them in my player, it ends up saying can't read disc, playback feature may not be available. PS> I haven't tried to back up a movie and see if that would play.
If you have a DVD player that will read DivX/Xvid/MPEG files then yes it will read them if you just burn them as a data DVD. I use Nero Vision Express to convert my MPEG files to DVD. But you said you had roxio and I dont know if Roxio has a program that will do it. Below is another link with some guides on how to convert those files to DVD. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/172
