Simple starting points for DVD playing

[wristar]

hi there.

I know that it is really annoying when someone comes along and asks really simple questions on a forum, but i have looked all over the internet and all the information that is available is at a more advanced level than i am currently at.

My problem is (in my head) simple.

I have a movie on my PC. I want to burn it to DVD and play it on my DVD player.

I burned it in its original format which is just a normal windows media file, and it works on my really cheap £20 dvd player. But on my more expensive one it complains that it is a non supported format.

I have seen loads of stuff about converting..divx....codecs.... formats etc...

but nothing that is simple enough to say... "to make a DVD work on your DVD player, you need it to be X and to make it X you need to .........."

I know that it wont be as simple as clicking a few buttons, but I just need the basic starting points so I can look from there and work it out myself!

Any help would be much appreicated

Phil

[guns1inger]

You obviously haven't looked in the right places, as it is all over this site.

First place to look is the top left corner of this page - What is DVD. It will tell you what specifications you have to meet to create a DVD.

I would suggest you try FAVC or DVD Flick to encode your video file and author it ready for burning.

[Baldrick]

Start with https://www.videohelp.com/guides/category/newbie-all-in-one-dvd-convert-guides-4;62#4;62