Help making a DVD

[lordrothgar]

hi al........i'm a newbe and i hope some1 can answer my question.

i used TMPGEnc and & TMPGEnc Plus to convert some avi and make a DVD.

All the process went well but after burning it i cant see it on my DVD Player but only on my DVD+RW.

So i neede to no if it's only my DVD Player problem or if i've done something wrong.

I recieved no error messages when i used the tool to convert and burn


thx al


bye

[presto]

i cant see it on my DVD Player but only on my DVD+RW.

Can you make this any clearer? Do you mean to say the DVD doesn't work on your DVD player but does work on your computer? Or did you make two disks and the DVD+RW works but the other disk doesn't?

[lordrothgar]

ok....i made 1 dvd and it doesn't work on my dvd player and on my dvd-rom unit on pc.

it works perfectly on my DVD+RW unit

i hope is clear now

bye

[presto]

THe DVD you made is either a DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-R, or DVD-RW.

A lot of DVD Roms don't play DVD+RW, or DVD-RW

Some stand alone DVD players don't play them either.

Check your player in the DVD player compatability listing over there
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[lordrothgar]

Thx for your help presto..i discovered tha tmy dvd player doesn't support DVD+R/RW

It's a very bad news but thx anyway


bye

[presto]

I wouldn't call it VERY bad news because you can probably fix it for as little as $40.00. It's time for a new DVD player.

[soundforbjt]

I think he skipped an important step, Mainly authoring the video before burning.

[presto]

lordrothgar,
soundforbjt is suggesting you may have simply burned an mpg to a DVD rather than using authoring software to create the proper structure for a DVD Video. If you just burned an mpg it certainly won't play on a standalone player.

When you just look at the DVD with explorer by right clicking on the drive and choosing explore do you see an .mpg or do you see a VIDEO_TS folder?