burning video files to dvd

[brenjim]

hi everyone I'm trying to burn some videos to dvd and play them on my dvd player I have a program called Roxio and I have window media player plus windows dvd maker. After I burn them using one of these programs the dvd player tells me its an "Invalid Disc" when I insert the dvd. Are these programs that I'm using any good? or should I be using something else? The videos that I downloaded work great on my computer..can anyone help? thanks

[guns1inger]

Start by identifying what you have. Use g-spot or mediainfo to tell you what your videos are.

For most avi/mkv/divx files I find FAVC to be very good. The menus are simple, but I don't use hem anyway as I only put one movie per disc. It will encode and author a compliant disc structure, ready for burning. I then use Imgburn to burn the files to disc (build mode, select the video_ts folder).

I wouldn't touch Roxio with a barge pole. I haven't used Windows DVD Maker, but I am guessing it is just a step up from Windows Movie Maker, so there will be better tools around.

You can also check out DVD Flick as another free alternative.

[brenjim]

thanks for all your help l"ll play around and post back in a day or two and let you know how l make out thanks again

[brenjim]

hi everything is working great l am using DVD Flick like you suggested..so thanks again..