Helping getting CD movie to work in DVD player

[Reba30]

I used windows movie maker to make a simple slide show and copied it to CD-R & a CD-RW.
The DVD player is a Proton PD800 which is supposed to play both formats but player says it is wrong type of disk. I contacted Protron but the tech could only tell me about getting a "zone 1" disk and to try it. I bought both Sony disks in USA as well as the DVD player. I would appreciate any help.

thanks

[Krispy Kritter]

What format did you use to burn the slide show? It is most likely burned in a format the player does not support.

[Reba30]

Thanks for the quick reply..

I tried to copy using movie maker's default, which is a "best choice" and I also tried
"Video for local playback (2.1 mbps NTSC)"

[byteguy]

Movie Maker creates WMV files. Those are not playable on most (any?) DVD players.

You are going to have to convert it somehow. Check out all the tutorials at : http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Tutorials/Index.aspx

[Reba30]

Wow! Thanks for the tutorial site. I'll look at the tutorial in the meantime but, I was hoping to get some quick information (if possible) on getting this to work as I need to do a presentation with it.
thanks

[ZippyP.]

I was hoping to get some quick information (if possible) on getting this to work as I need to do a presentation with it.

Here's a beginners guide with free tools for converting wmv to dvd, link.

[Cornucopia]

Read this post:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1620240#1620240

Similar thing, except you would encode the DV_AVI to MPEG2 (and Audio to ac3/mp2/pcm) and author for DVD...


Scott

[Reba30]

Scott,

In your post you mention "Load into timeline. Export as DV-AVI (type1)"
Not sure what you mean by <export> ?
Also, which file to use: TMPGEnc-0.11.20.97.zip or TMPGEnc-2.524.63.181-Free.zip


thanks

[Cornucopia]

It's in one of my previous posts on the subject, but a synopsis goes like this:

WMM-- [File | SaveMovieFile | "My Computer"] [Next] ["myname", "mypath"] [Next] [Other Settings : DV-AVI (NTSC/PAL)]

(IOW, I meant "save" the movie file)

RE: which TMPGEnc,

The latter is probably more robust.

Scott

[Reba30]

Scott,

It worked!

Thank you.