I'm trying to burn a movie on to a disk but it wont play on DVD player. What format should it be in and is there free software I can download to convert and burn?
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Without the right software, all you are doing is putting the video file on the disc the same as it would be on a hard drive/USB stick.
Burn will make a playable dvd for you. Just ensure that you make a Video DVD.
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
Burn will make a playable dvd for you. Just ensure that you make a Video DVD.
http://burn-osx.sourceforge.net/Pages/English/home.html
So the format of the movie is not important when burning.
I.e. MP4 burned on to a disk will play.
No it's not. Any DVD authoring software will automatically convert your movie file to mpeg2 when making the dvd.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong, burned movie to DVD, it plays on laptop, but won't play on my Sony DVD player.
I'm using Windows media player to burn. When in erase the dvd and format it won't burn, but if I only erase with out format it burns fine. Any reason for this?
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When the DVD is inside the computer, what folders and files appear on it using a file manager like Windows Explorer or Finder?
Which laptop are you using, and what software plays the dvd?
How old is the DVD player? Some older ones sometimes have problems with homemade dvds.
It a few years old but what confusing is I burned one DVD no problem, but after that nothing worked.
Thing is I'm not sure with I did differently on the first burn.
I opened the DVD and there is two files. A video file (type-file folder) and one with the date on it ( type -WPL file(.wpl))
What is the name and extension/suffix of the video file and what do you mean with "type-file folder"?
If there is no folder called VIDEO_TS in the root of the DVD, then it is not a video DVD, just a data DVD, which many DVD players for TVs cannot read.
Burn will make simple video DVDs out of many files, including MP4s.
You have to use the VIDEO tab and select "DVD-Video" as shown in the screenshot.
There is no mention of video_TS. Just video.
When I open properties file folder is what's mentioned.
I see you are also using a Windows PC. You do know this is an Apple users forum? You might be better posing your question on a PC forum.