burning dvd's

[Ricardinho]

tryed to copy a video from my harddrive to a dvd yesterday, went fine, but it didnt load on my dvd player, it said was the wrong file type, what is the right one and how do you go about burning it right? im a bit of a novice as you can tell!

 

[Final Maxim]

you need to convert it to dvd first mate. get yourself some software such as DivXtoDVD
this will convert it to the necessary files for the dvd player to recognise. then you can burn these files via nero or whatever.

im burnin a file as we speak now, taking 3 hours but it is 3.7 gig i think and filled the dvd completely

 

[Ricardinho]

cool converting as we speak, thanks for your help!!

 

[Munson]

CovertXToDVD is better IMO. Drag and drop, come back later and it's converted and burnt.

 

[xtreme_boi]

I use WinAVI Video Converter

Doesn't take that long to convert either

 

[Munson]

They all do the job, although not all of them encode 5.1 audio, ConvertXToDVD does.

 

[Ricardinho]

didnt work burnt it using divxtodvd then my dvd player still says incorrect media, works on my pc though using the disc

 

[Munson]

Sounds like your player doesn't like recordable media. What disc are you using? +R -R? +RW -RW? Could just be compatablity problem with your standalone.

 

[Ricardinho]

+rw

 

[Rob.]

Some HATE +RW use a 'R' Make sure to burn the dvd at Speed 2x ( 2.777 KBS )

 

[Ricardinho]

im trying with an r at the mo, hope it works!

 

[Rob.]

What burning speed was you using before?? , And what now.