I keep burning DVD-Rom and not DVD videos, can anyone help me get it right?

Question

I am new to burning DVDs on disc and wondering why when I burn to a disc I keep getting DVD-ROM and not DVD video. They play on my laptop and not in the DVD player. I have used DIVX burning software and DeepBurner burning software.

Answer 1

If you're taking a video that you've downloaded, in mpeg or avi format, and putting it on a dvd, that will cause the problem you're describing. DVD movies have two files...audio and video...that you need to put on the disc so that you can play it in the dvd player. You can get a program to convert a video file to dvd format...Canopus Procoder has the highest quality of any of the programs I've used, but it is expensive and very slow. If you're trying to copy a dvd, Nero buring software or CloneDVD are good...but most commercial dvd's have copywrite protection. You can download a program called dvd43 that will work around that, but it doesn't copy dvd's itself, it runs in the background while you're using another program.

You can put a dvd into your dvd drive and look at the names of the files on it...that will give you an idea of what kind of format your files need to be in to play on the dvd player.

Keep in mind that even when you have the programs to copy something, and you're working with the right files, it doesn't always work...or you'll think it did work until you're halfway through the movie and it quits working. I was really excited when I got the dvd burner, but it's really kind of frustrating sometimes.

Answer 2

I frequently use Ahead nero to burn DVDs, and they have the option to burn the DVD in DVD-Video format. I don't know if DIVX and DeepBurner have that function. Anyway, try to find the way to burn in DVD-Video format not Data DVDs.

Answer 3

If you were to use Nero Express, it gives you the option of burning a DVD Video rather than just files on a DVD

Answer 4

DVD, additionally widespread as digital versatile Disc or digital Video Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and became based in 1995. Its important makes use of are video and documents storage. DVDs are of the comparable dimensions as compact discs (CDs), yet save better than six situations as plenty documents. transformations of the term DVD in many situations describe the way documents is saved on the discs: DVD-ROM (examine purely reminiscence) has documents that could purely be examine and not written; DVD-R and DVD+R (recordable) can checklist documents purely as quickly as, and then function as a DVD-ROM; DVD-RW (re-writable), DVD+RW, and DVD-RAM (random get right of entry to reminiscence) can the two checklist and erase documents distinctive situations.

Answer 5

There's not much difference between DVD-ROM and DVD Video. Both use the DVD-ROM booktype. Just make sure you use both UDF 1.02 and ISO-9660, and your disc should be logically identical to any commercial DVD video. (Barring CSS, of course.)

Also make sure your program material complies with the DVD specs for your region -- you might be burning PAL content and using an NTSC player, for instance. NTSC DVDs require the MPEG-2 video to be 29.97 fps (or 23.976 fps with pulldown to 29.97). NTSC players are required to decode AC-3 and PCM. PAL MPEG-2 must be 25 fps and players must decode MP-2, PCM, and maybe AC-3. Don't quote me on that, I'm not in PAL land.

On the other hand, it's possible your DVD player just doesn't like burnt discs.

Answer 6

I use Nero 7 myself....so here how it works:

Open Nero choose option DVD from right top corner then on the left side you will option Nero Burning Rom click it...then you will see new window...make sure on the left top corner says DVD and choose DVD Video from left colomn options then hit New on the bottom....now you ll see new window basicly devided into 4 parts......on the second column from the right choose folder where your movie is located and the in the first column from the right you will see 2 folders- Audio TS and Video TS.....highlight them both and drag both folder to the second column from left....now at the bottom of the screen you should see green bar and it should tell you how much space your movie would take on your DVD....for normal quality movie it should be apprx. 3-4.5 Gbs....Bow on the top of the screen you see all those different options..hit icon that looks like cd with burning stick(if you point your mouse over that icon it should say Burn)...hit it and then new window will pop to your screen....leave everything as it is....put blank DVD disk into your dvd rom and on the Nero screen hit Burn in the bottom.....now you should see new windows that gives you info wut is gonig on right now and how long it will take to burn the DVD...rom my experience it never takes more then 20 minutes to burn DVD...
Good luck:)

Answer 7

nero....best solution