Anyone here who can burn DVDs?

[FredLC]

Guys, I just got a DVD burner, and the backup copies I have made do not play in my standalone device.

Anyone here who knows how to handle that stuff to help me out?

Thanks.

My burner is a LG GMA 4020B
My standalone is a Philco DV-P2100
I burned at DVD ram and DVD RW medias, using Nero 5.5.9.14, and the following procedure:

1/ make sure all your movie files are in a folder called VIDEO_TS (must be caps).
2/ open nero, click close wizard.
3/ in the new compilation choose dvd (obviously)
4/ instead of choosing DVD VIDEO, choose DVD-ROM (UDF)
5/ all settings should be ok at default, but if not, make sure no multisession is ticked, and UDF1.02 is selected as a physical partition.
6/ click new, locate your VIDEO_TS folder with the movie you want to burn.drag and drop into the burn box on the left, then click burn.
7/ when finished enjoy in you stand alone for the first time.

[funxus]

I'm not sure I get this right, you want to burn movie files so that you can watch them in a dvd-player connected to your TV?

The only way I've been able to play burnt movies on DVD in my dvd-player is if I've burnt the movie as an .mpg file and then chose to watch that file in the browser on the dvd-player. Avi-files don't work though.

Another way is to use a program where you burn it as a movie-dvd and not as files, but it didn't work well for me. The quality was lost, and some of them were even burnt reversed (:crazyeyes: ).

So, if this is the problem, either see what formats your dvd-player can read, or you get a program (not Sonic MyDVD) that can burn movie-dvds.

[FredLC]

I can play them as DVDs in my PC just fine, and if it's a DVD5 (like my copy of "Cube"), I can backup them without any quality loss.

The problem is that it should play also in the device that is aparted from the computer (the standalone player), as a DVD too.

The procedure I described is supposed to do the trick, and work with any, or almost any, DVD. Also, the internet info about my player says that it should play DVD RW media, so I got very pissed when it gave me the NO CD message....

Brazilian philco has answered me that it can play CD-R and CD-RW, and that they can't garantee thye rest... Well, they dodged the question, because that I already knew.

I guess I should get in touch with international philco...

[CrackedCrystal]

May all your questions be answered...

www.dvdrhelp.com

I go there for all my video questions.