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Hi - i'm trying to burn a film from hard drive (film works fine on here, a mate put it on so i could watch it, works in either windows media player or imovie thing) to DVD - when i've tried it says disc error on the home dvd player, is there a proper way fo doing this so it'll work - anyone done it?
thanks for the help.
Firstly is it all in the correct format?
The folder structure should have 2 folders one called AUDIO_TS which has no files (used for DVDAudio format) and a folder called VIDEO_TS which will have a collection of *.bup *.ifo + *.vob files the VOB files are the video files.
Secondly you can't just copy these files onto a DVD you have to use some software that creates "DVD video Discs" to write the data to the disc. Such as NERO Burning Rom
Hope this isn't to wordy!
it's 'Microsoft Video (.avi)' when i click properties. So need to convert this somehow to a format a household dvd will mangage.
Yes the format on a DVD (VOB) is actually a multiplexed MPEG2 - so some software to convert is required. I use Adobe Encore for DVD authoring other people might be able to suggest free/shareware software - Google throws up lots of freeware stuff!
Many thanks - downloaded cdburnerxp what ever that is - works fine now!
Thanks again
Google for DVDFlick which is a simple free DVD authoring tool. It's basically a nifty Graphic interface unifying other open source tools to create a finished DVD.
Yoy can use this to encode and burn a DVD straight form the AVI file. It works and it's simple & neat, you don't need to understand the complexities of DVD authoring to use it.