Another incombatibility situation

[luv2kruz]

I recently got my new computer system up and running and this is my first attempt at burning stuff on a DVD. Any help you can give a newbie would be greatly appreciated.

I bought a new tv with a built-in DVD player (Philips 20DV6942/37). The instructions say that the DVD player is compatible with DVD+R media. I recorded a TV program on my Media Center PC and used the Media Center "Create DVD" option to burn a copy of the program onto a DVD. I have no idea what sofware media center uses to do the burning.

I burned it successfully on the computer but it won't play in the tv's dvd player. Just keeps showing "unknown disc".

Is there anything I can do to make this work?

Thanks.

[jdizzy40]

First off, you are going to have to go into the setting of the TV Software program that does the recording and find out what file format it is producing. Is the file DVD compilant? Have you tried your completed disk in another DVD player. Does it play on your computer? You will need to learn the software that your media center uses in order to ensure you are recording a DVD compliant source file. And last, what program did you use to produce your DVD? The fact that you burned it successfully, tells me zippo. If it won't play then it burned something but not a playable disc. As far as I know, media PCs can produce MPEG files that must in turn be authored into a DVD structure that can be written to disc. So these are just starting points.