Playing dvd-r on RCA dvd player

[nice24]

I burn my movies just fine with Nero 6.1, but why cant i play them on my DVD player. If i place the DVD into my dvd-rw it will play throught WMP. When i go to put in my 2 dvd players I get the message "cannot play disk" or "There is no disk".

I thought nero would allow the disc to be played in any player. Is there anything i have to do to the disk for it to work. The files I burn are AVI files, I see a lot of people talking about TMPGEnc, would this help me in this situation. If so can you tell me how and what i need to do. My dvd player is a RCA model RC5230z (it also has divx on the front), and the other is a sony DAV s300.

any help

Thanks

Nice.............

[Bob W]

I don't think any DVD player is going to play an AVI file. The files have to be converted to DVD compliant mpeg2. If you're new to all this I suggest you invest in neoDVD Plus then work up to the more complicated programs. You can check out NeoDVD here. http://www.mediostream.com/neodvd/index.html

[poopyhead]

I don't think any DVD player is going to play an AVI file.

Lite-On LVD2001 supports MPEG-4 Divx and xVID: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=2509&Search=Search&#comments

as well as Kiss DP450: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=1502&Search=Search&#comments

and Kiss DP500: https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=1983&Search=Search&#comments

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@nice24,

BUT i highly doubt your players support Divx.... this means you have to do what Bob W sez and convert your MPEG-4 Divx to DVD compliant MPEG-2.

guide: http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/mpg/avi2dvdr.htm

[nice24]

so once I convert my movies to mpeg-2 they should work.

I used TMPEGnc last night. Converted my avi. to mpeg-2 once i burnt it and tried to play on my dvd. It still says disk is not compatible why do you think this is.


Nice

[poopyhead]

I used TMPEGnc last night. Converted my avi. to mpeg-2 once i burnt it and tried to play on my dvd. It still says disk is not compatible why do you think this is.

did you author your DVD??? you can't simply burn the .mpg file as a DATA DVD....you need to author the .mpg file to a DVD VIDEO.

authoring guides: https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/139093.php

https://www.videohelp.com/forum/userguides/78179.php

https://www.videohelp.com/spruceup.htm

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

[nice24]

Oh so I have to add menus and chapters for it to really work. Just having the movie and then converting it....isnt enough.

OK..so if thats right I'm doing ok cause, I have DVDLAB it works nice still trying to work some things out.... there. But I see what it can do, I got held up cause I have a 20gb HD and alot of large movie file so when I tried to compile my fiirst movie HD space got lower from all the work. so, I'm deleteing some partials and just gonna go with my whole movies.

so I am I on the right track



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