3 Hours.. HELP!

[Its Pink Ninja]

Hey, so Ive been burning for a while now, I usually burn a video to a CD with - Cheetah DVD Burner
All I do is basically put the file on the CD, I don't make a menu or anything and it works fine on my DVD player.

So I tried one of the CD's on my friends DVD player and it wont work. It says "Check Disk"

The only time I can get anything to work is if I make a DVD with Nero 7. It usually takes about 3 hours to burn and I can only fit 1 (600mb video) on a 4.7GB disk. If i try to add anything else it says "Not enough space on disk" and even if i can fit something else it says the quality will be very low. Does anyone know why this happens?

So my question is -
How can I burn a movie/video onto a DVD or CD and make it work on my friends DVD player. I've tried burning it with about 10 programs and nothing will work unless I use Nero and make a menu and everything.

My problem is that it takes SO long to burn and I using these expensive DVD's and only getting 600mb out of them when I should be getting 4.7GB.

Thanks!

[piano632]

A good guess would be that your original video is not compliant with DVD standards and Nero is re-encoding everything (which would explain the length of time it takes). But I think you will have to give everyone more info about your source video before anyone can really help you.

[Its Pink Ninja]

By video source what do you mean like where to I get the "MOVIE" from?
If so I think you know how.

So if it is the problem and Nero is converting it, am I pretty much screwed? I mean this is a real pain.

BTW, he cant get a different DVD player.

[Ai Haibara]

You're most likely getting the 'Check Disc' message on your friend's player because it doesn't recognize data CDs/DVDs. For that player, you don't have a choice - you'll have to author a DVD-Video disc.

I'm not sure if you can alter the bitrate of the videos to fit more video on a disc in Nero. However, you might try using FAVC, DVD Flick (both freeware) or ConvertXToDVD (shareware). I think only ConvertX creates (rather basic) menus, though.

[Its Pink Ninja]

Ok, so I need to get a better DVD player or just keep doing it the same way now?

I also noticed the DVD player functions the same as an Xbox 360, only playing disks that have menus.

Any recommendations on any DVD players?

[Ai Haibara]

I wasn't talking about changing DVD players - yours, or your friend's.

What I was referring to, were alternatives to Nero you might try for creating DVD-Video discs (and programs that will easily allow you to fit more than one video per disc, as opposed to Nero).

[Its Pink Ninja]

Yes, but you basically said that there is nothing i can do, correct?

So I was asking for any DVD players that are cheap and can play some of the CD videos that take less then 10 min to burn.

I was also saying that his DVD player is similar to an xbox 360 in hopes that it would help.

[Ai Haibara]

No, I didn't.

If you want to play DivX/Xvid/MPEG videos on your friend's player from data CD/DVD files, yes, your friend's player apparently won't do it.

However, you can create a video DVD using the programs I mentioned (there are others which may work, of course, like AVI2DVD), which should play in your friend's player, yours, etc. (IF it has no problems playing regular video DVDs.)

If you do want to buy a new DVD player capable of playing DivX/Xvid, though, you might find one or more in a local store for around $60 or less.

[lingyi]

What type of files are you burning to your CDs (avi, mpeg, mp4, wmv, etc.)? How long are the videos? From your description "600mb video", it seems likely that they're movies (90 - 120 minutes).

From your original post, you seem to be burning the files directly to the CD and playing them back on your DVD player, so it seems likely they're either divx/avi or mpeg files.

If the files are divx/avi you'll have to reencode them to either an actual DVD (what Nero is almost surely doing since it takes 3 hours to "burn" or if you really want to use CDs, convert them to VCD/SVCDs *ugh*. In either case, it will take awhile for the conversion to take place.

If the files are mpeg 1 or 2, they MAY already be VCD / DVD compliant (search for DVD specs to see what the file requirements are) and just need to be authored into a proper VCD or DVD.

[Its Pink Ninja]

Ai Haibara-
Well the programs you mentioned are doing the same exact thing as Nero. They are still taking roughly 2-3 hours. (Although, they do not stop half-way through like Nero and say that there is a disk error and stop the entire process for you to start over again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)



lingyi-
The files are in AVI and I believe they are encoded in xvid if that sounds correct.
But my main problem is the time it takes to actualy burn them, is there any way I can make a video CD that will work without converting?

[t0nee1]

Its pink Ninja wrote" is there any way I can make a video CD that will work without converting?
Use IMGBurn in build mode,burn to device/cd

[hech54]

My problem is that it takes SO long to burn and I using these expensive DVD's and only getting 600mb out of them when I should be getting 4.7GB.

ARE YOU TRYING TO CREATE A VIDEO CD OR A DVD?!?!
OR ARE YOU TRYING TO CREATE A DATA CD?!?!

[Its Pink Ninja]

t0neel -
Do you think this will work?
I'll try it.
EDIT: the video file (avi) is not supported by the program, so I still have to convert...

ARE YOU TRYING TO CREATE A VIDEO CD OR A DVD?!?!
OR ARE YOU TRYING TO CREATE A DATA CD?!?!

Im not trying to create anything. I would like to burn the (699mb) video onto a CD but whenever I try (ive tried MANY MANY methods) its asks me to "Check Disk"

The only way I can get it to work is if I put the (699mb) video onto a (4.7gb) DVD disk using NERO 7 and making a menu and everything.

I would like to make a video CD that will work on the DVD player.

[hech54]

If the DVD player also plays a DivX "file"....then you need to make/create/burn a simple data CD.

If the DVD player cannot play a DivX "file"....then you need to convert the "file" to either VideoCD or DVD(video) format (which is what Nero is doing)....plain and simple.

By video source what do you mean like where to I get the "MOVIE" from?
If so I think you know how.

Your best bet would be to go out and buy the original DVD instead.

[Its Pink Ninja]

yea, hech54 I'm not sure if you've read any other of the posts, but thats what pretty much everyone has been saying.

Your best bet would be to go out and buy the original DVD instead.

LOL

[hech54]

Yes but you still never stated what you wanted the outcome to be...a data cd, a video CD, a super video CD, a data DVD or a video DVD...and you never said whether the player in question could play Divx or not.

[theewizard]

I usually burn a video to a CD with - Cheetah DVD Burner
All I do is basically put the file on the CD, I don't make a menu or anything and it works fine on my DVD player.

So I tried one of the CD's on my friends DVD player and it wont work. It says "Check Disk"

The only time I can get anything to work is if I make a DVD with Nero 7. It usually takes about 3 hours to burn and I can only fit 1 (600mb video) on a 4.7GB disk. If i try to add anything else it says "Not enough space on disk" and even if i can fit something else it says the quality will be very low. Does anyone know why this happens?

when making the CD you are simply burning a data file disc, you DVD player plays Dvix & xvid files, your friends DVD player does NOT play these files

source file = type of file and the codec it is made with avi, mpeg , dvix, mpeg4 codec etc

nero is converting / re-encoding the file and making a DVD disc with mpeg2 compatible dvd player files, then after doing the conversion it burns the disc, this is what takes so long, the 3hr conversion process not the 12 minute burn

NERO is poor choice for conversion

if you want to play movies ON your friends DVD player, you either CREATE DVD's with good encoding & authoring software OR he needs a player that will play dvix/xvid avi files from your cd's

there are faster and better programs than nero

but the process is still going to take several hrs to get good results when making a DVD

[Ai Haibara]

True. It's the video encoding step that's taking a while in Nero and the programs I mentioned, not burning the disc. Some of them don't even have direct burning support.

(Note that the programs I mentioned are basically for creating DVD video, not VideoCD, or data CDs.)

...and you never said whether the player in question could play Divx or not.

Actually, from what the OP said in the first post, it sounds like data discs (AVI? MPEG?) play fine in Its Pink Ninja's player, but the friend's player doesn't play DivX/Xvid/MPEG CDs or DVDs.

[t0nee1]

pink ninja wrote"the video file (avi) is not supported by the program, so I still have to convert...
Post a Gspot screenshot of avi....cus, I use IMGBurn in build mode to burn Xvid/divx AVI to cd disc.....but I agree with others,what format do you need to convert to?.....not all players play Xvid or divx,as you found out....

[Its Pink Ninja]

Ok, well theewizard pretty much just made everything clear to me.
I'm just going to have to keep burning them like this so that they will work.
But you said that Nero is a poor choice, what are some of the "better and faster ones" ??

and t0neel i have no idea what gspot is...

Thanks everyone for your help I really appreciate it.

[redwudz]

Gspot 2.70 is a program to tell you most everything about a video file. Knowing what the format, etc. is will tell you what you need to know to convert it. How to post a screen shot: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic271697.html

For most videos off the net, I would use ConvertXToDVD if you want to convert to DVD as it simplifies the process and you will almost always get better results than Nero. And just about any DVD player out there should play the DVDs if you use the right media. A 700MB Xvid will convert to about 1.5 - 2GB DVD file.

If you have a Divx player, no need to convert most times, just burn to disc as they are. I use ImgBurn for that most times. But the video has to be Divx compliant. You can convert them to Divx compliant Xvid video with a program like AVI ReComp.