Problem playing movie.

[jexster]

I just got a dvd burner it is a liteon dvdrw +/- i have a avi format file on my computer so i used winavi to convert it to the nessasary files so that i could burn. Well i tried using nero and winavi to burn it. And regardless everytime i put it in my dvd player it just wont go. It actually gets stuck on reading and then says no disc. I have to use the emergency eject on my stand alone cyberhome dvdburner/player to get the disc to eject. These arnt the only tools i have tried but it has been to many to name.

[redwudz]

You haven't said what kind of AVI file, there are many types. What does AVIcodec say about it?

Have you tried TMPGEnc encoder?

Bad media, burner problems can cause this.

Have you had successfull burns with your setup?

Does your DVD player play other files you have burned?

As you can see, unless you supply enough info, all you get are questions.

[jexster]

They are in xvid forrmat. The dvd player dosent have a problem playing vcd's. The stand alone is a cyberhome 5100 so it is able to play pretty much all formats. I have tried tmpgenc plus and i have tried changing the enviromental setting but it won't load the film.

[Moloko_Plus]

If theres one thing I dont entirely understand, its why people reencode divx and avi into dvd format. The quality will stay the same or even be worse, youll have wasted hours of your time, youll also have wasted a blank dvdr and the 15-30 minutes it takes to write it.
If you want to watch xvid and divx on your tv then get a player that plays those formats, there are many to choose from and are very well priced. Either that or you could a video out thing on your pc video card. Theres many alternatives, but i just find spending all that time reencoding to dvd a waste. Dvd is supposed to be 5-15 mbps, xvid and divx are definetely not dvd video quality.

[jexster]

I want to convert them becuse i bought my standalone dvdburner months ago and it support all dvd formats. So i turned around and bought a dvd burner for my pc. So everything would be compatable.

[ghoster]

sounds to me that when you authored it. it got screwed up somewhere. what is your authoring program?or its not dvd with in dvd standards.

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

Maybe bad media.

Is this happening only in this particular case?, or there's another file that it won't write?