cannot get nero to burn a vcd to dvd

[SIRCOOKS]

im using the Pine Pioneer USB 2.0 External DVD-RW Drive,and nero, with all the plugins and codecs...but after i encode it, it wont let me burn it on a dvd-r that i have..the disc saya its generally for data......is that why, can soemone tell me whats up......

[Vejita-sama]

Well I suspect/it sounds like you are trying to burn a MPEG1 encode file to a DVD-R disc in DVD-video mode.

You need to use your encode MPEG as a video source, then author (see guides to left) the DVD, then burn the authored VIDEO_TS folder to your DVD-R disc.

There are freeware (IFOEdit) and commerical (eg. Ulead) to do this. Freeware wise take a look at:

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/120013.php