where did i go wrong???

gubby

I am using windows movie maker.. but when i save a movie to a dvd it seems to save it on to the disk but when i try to playback on my dvd player it wont work. what am i doing wrong? I would really appreciate help

aidan_walsh

Did you write the WMV file to the dvd? If so, it would seem your DVD player doesn't support it.

gubby

excuse my ignorance!! but what?
how do I write WMV to the dvd.. or should I? I just saved it ...

aidan_walsh

Ok, baby steps time... Define "save to DVD"...

hostyle

gubby wrote:

where did i go wrong???

First mistake was such an unhelpful thread title ...

Second was using Windows Movie Maker. Use something else - anything else.

DonkeyStyle \o/

gubby wrote:

but when i try to playback on my dvd player it wont work.

Do you mean a stand-alone DVD player like one that would be connected to a TV?
One thing I'd try is to play it on the computer first using a DVD player program, this rules out an incompatability between the disk and the player.
My DVD player is a bit picky about which disks it reads... it seems to ignore DVD+R completely, but works fine with DVD-R, go figure.

Check the contents of the DVD, you should have folders on it like "audio_ts" and "video_ts" (or something to that effect) and the files here should have .vob extensions.
As has already been mentioned, they have to be a specific format (mpeg4 afaicr), so putting wmv's or whatever on the disk isn't going to work.

Tom Dunne

gubby wrote:

I am using windows movie maker.. but when i save a movie to a dvd it seems to save it on to the disk but when i try to playback on my dvd player it wont work. what am i doing wrong? I would really appreciate help

Windows Movie Maker does not support writing to DVD (at least not the version I have installed). It may, however, allow you to save the video file to a DVD - but that won't be playable in a DVD player. Think of it as saving to another hard-disk, the DVD player expects a DVD format disc, not a Windows hard-disk format disk.

You need to save it as a video file and then import to another DVD burning software such as Nero.

gubby

ok so.. can anyone give me a link for nero or anyother programme i could use. thanks for all the help :cool:

popey21

Go to http://www.doom9.org/ and click on guides your going to be looking at Format Conversion DivX->(S)VCD/DVD±R, SVCD->DivX etc and then learn to use nero

Mac daddy

gubby wrote:

ok so.. can anyone give me a link for nero or anyother programme i could use. thanks for all the help :cool:

Use the google - try using a something else other than windows movie maker, came supplied with a crappy dell pc?