My son-in-law is not able to record movies on his DVD recorder.?

Question

They are on his computer and he is able to watch them with windows media player. But when he tries to burn them, he gets error messages that say the files cannot be recognized. Do you have any suggestions?

We don't want to do anything illegal. He justs wants to copy some movies his father made of the family. He has not been able to do anything with his DVD recorder.
Short of reading the instructions again (which he said he did but probably didn't) what is the best way to burn a movie when the error message says it does not recognize the file.

Answer 1

There are two ways to burn movies

a) In Disc format. You just copy your files to the disc like normal files. They can be played only by another PC using WMP.

b) Video format. If they are in DVD-Video format they can be played by any DVD player. You need to convert your wmv or whatever format you are using into MPEG files. For that, you need a DVD authoring software.

Answer 2

You need to rip the copy protection off the movie and then you can burn the movie with a regular burning program. You can try HandBrake but there are a lot out there. Oh it's also illegal to do this says the the movie industry.

good luck