trying to burn a dvd with windows movie maker but it doesnt play in my dvd paleyer.why?

Question

The dvd will play in my pc but not my dvd player.I dont see a way to change format to dv-avi before burning.help please

Answer 1

Has the dvd been finalized yet? It will not play anywhere except your pc if you have not finalized it yet.

Answer 2

Unlike DVD drives, most standalone DVD players only support MPEG-2 standard format. MPEG-2 is used on all DVD movies that you can find at your local BlockBusters. There are some specialized DVD players which can play some MPEG-4 formats, which .avi is a part of. You need to encode the movie to a format that your DVD players can read. You can use the free program DVD Flick. The Lifehacker.com website has a complete manual on how to use DVD Flick. The article has the link for the free download. Here is the article:

"Hack Attack: Burn Almost Any Video File to a Playable DVD" -- lifehacker.com (http://lifehacker.com/software/dvds/hack-attack-burn-almost-any-video-file-to-a-playable-dvd-232322.php)

Putting any old video file - like the DivX/Xvid-encoded videos you've downloaded with BitTorrent - onto a DVD to play on your TV can be a daunting task. There's plenty of software that tackles this sort of thing for a price, but as a lover of open source software, free's always my first choice.

Luckily for all of us, authoring playable DVDs from just about any video file has gotten a lot easier in the open source community. This week I'm going to show you how to burn those downloaded TV shows to a DVD you can play in your living room using the free (as in speech), open source application, DVD Flick.