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Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Meatwad on February 03, 2007, 09:59:57 PM

Just got me a new DVD-RW drive for the computer. As of right now I am trying to put some shows onto a DVD to play on the dvd player for the television.

I have PowerProducer as the software to do this, but it apparently dont work too good as the first disc wouldnt play on tv. Is there any recomendations on an easier way to do this?

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 03, 2007, 10:01:57 PM

I may be wrong in this, but you have to check as to what kind of DVD's your player does play.  There are many different kinds of DVD's, and not all writers do them all, nor do all readers read them all.

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Meatwad on February 03, 2007, 10:14:55 PM

The player, drive, and the cd's say DVD-RW on them

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Gunslinger on February 03, 2007, 10:16:55 PM

Meat it also depends on what format you are burning.  If your software is converting it into DVD  (actually creating TS and VOB files) and such.

Give a little more specifics as to what you are puting on the DVD.

If you burn an AVI/WMV/MPEG strait to DVD most older DVD players will not play these.  Alot of the newer ones will though.

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Meatwad on February 03, 2007, 10:20:13 PM

The file is in AVI format, but the dvd player itself is pretty new in technology standards (I hope). As of right now I am going to try Nero and see what happens


Found software to convert from avi to whatever dvd's take. currently converting a test file and then will try nero on it

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: DES on February 03, 2007, 11:00:17 PM

http://www.videohelp.com/

This site has everything you need to know and links to free and payware tools to do the job.

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: lasersailor184 on February 04, 2007, 02:18:50 AM

What Dred said.


Much like a regular Cd where you can make it an Audio CD or a Data CD, the same applies to DVD's.

You can't just copy files onto the DVD, because then it will act as a Data DVD.


There's a specific process to create a video DVD.

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Viking on February 04, 2007, 02:22:13 AM

Pay a visit to http://www.afterdawn.com they have all the help guides and software you need.

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Meatwad on February 04, 2007, 09:01:13 AM

I finally figured it out, tuns out it was set to burn at Hi-Def as defualt. Now just have to figure out how to get it to size correctly as the shows seem stretched out on tv

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Catalyst on February 04, 2007, 12:38:13 PM

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Originally posted by Meatwad
I finally figured it out, tuns out it was set to burn at Hi-Def as defualt. Now just have to figure out how to get it to size correctly as the shows seem stretched out on tv

this might be Wide Screen mode...change it if ya can

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Meatwad on February 04, 2007, 01:28:05 PM

Its at 4:3, it doesnt have an option for wide screen mode apparently unless you "buy" a better version of the software instead of what came bundled with the drive

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Gunslinger on February 04, 2007, 09:35:55 PM

I'm getting ready to buy one of these and avoid the burning/converting process alltogether.

http://www.airlinktek.com/english/prod_mg35.htm

(http://www.airlinktek.com/english/img/mg35_top.gif)

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: BigGun on February 05, 2007, 11:16:25 AM

Just buy a dvd recorder...very simple..almost just one touch...can record of of several devices, camcorder, tv etc. Simple & Fast

Title: Make DVD's work from PC to DVD player
Post by: Vulcan on February 05, 2007, 03:45:00 PM

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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I'm getting ready to buy one of these and avoid the burning/converting process alltogether.

Getting ready to buy my second one of these for the bedroom with the FULL UNCONDITIONAL APPROVAL FROM MY MISSUS! Hows that for an endoursment.