Hi All

I'm converting our wedding video to DVD for my wife for Christmas and managed to get it onto my PC and edit it / set up a menu using Womble DVD Maker.

I'm now trying to burn it to disk using Windows Vista. It goes through the whole process ok and I can run the disc on my PC but it won't run on our DVD players.

Any ideas or better (free!)burning solutions?

Regards

Wyn

Are you burning it at the slowest speed? That worked for me

DVD player issue some won't read some DVD-R or DVD+R istr tere are other format issues.

Strangely most of the new very cheap DVD players will read just about any format.

DVD's seem to suffer the same as cheap cd burners used to years ago.

I have 4 coasters sat on my desk just from last night. I'm going to try it on minimum speed tonight and hope it works like it used to on the old CD burner I used to have.

I don't know the correct terminology, but make sure the disk is "finalised or finished off" as if it's left "open" then it can be read on pc but a dvd player can't read it...

Steve

1) What format is the disc you are burning?
If anything other than DVD-R, does your home player explicitly support that format?

2) Lots of commercial DVD players don't support home burnt discs.

i did notice on my laptop, theres a button that says 'make compatable' when you go into 'my computer' and right click on the DVD drive with the DVD in the drive. its supposed to make it compatable with 'most type of readers'

now this is on XP, with CD-r (never actually checked with DVDs) so it may not help, but worth a look

Wyn try CD-R discs as I had the same problem.

You need to do a combo of the above:

1. check what discs your player can read dvd-r or dvd+r, then use that disc type.
2. make sure you 'finalize' the disc - should be an option in your burning software.

Yup. Try a different disc manafacturer. I spent ages trying to find out what was wrong with the DVD I made (strangely of my wedding video!) until I tried a different disc type. Even though VCD-help said my DVD player would accept the Sony discs it didn't like it... changed to Verbatim R+ and no problems since.... (and make sure either that you finalise it or that the DVD burning software automatically does that for DVDs (most do)).

If you're using cheap discs it won't help either, you can't get away with using cheapies like you can with CD's these days. The last lot of cheap DVD-R's I tried were so bad you could actually see the ink fading and blotchy towards the edge of the disc, meaning that you just can't burn anywhere close to full capacity without them failing

I had a similar problem. I switched from dvd-r's to dvd+r's. All fine now. Thats on a cheapy player and a pricey sony jobbies. Sony players are known for being a pain with home written jobs.

Thanks Guys

I've been trying DVD+R discs. Should I try the -R discs instead?

Wyn

The burn and finalise sounds most likely to be the problem. DVD will only play on your computer if it isn't finalised. Use a burning program to record it to disk and what format are you converting it to?

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Thanks Guys

I've been trying DVD+R discs. Should I try the -R discs instead?

Wyn

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Pete

Everything is in a folder called VIDEO_TS and I've dragged this to the DVD drive - I've then burned it using Vista as a mastered version. When I put the disc in one DVD player I get an error and in nother I get like a folder list but I can't access it.

Cracked it! Downloaded the trial version of Nero and it worked first time!

Wyn