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Title: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: USRanger on December 03, 2013, 05:29:04 PM

I have a bunch of downloaded movies, but when I put a couple on DVDs, they will only play on my PC, not a regular DVD player.  Does anyone know the correct file type I need to have them in to play on a DVD player?  If I remember right, the movies I tried were in mp4 format.

Title: Re: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: homersipes on December 03, 2013, 06:18:37 PM

I used windows movie maker, I was thinking I used mp4 format, I wasted about a dozen dvds before I figured it out :lol  I dont remember, but I am almost certain it was mp4.  I googled it and came up with VOB format, I dont remember that one.

Title: Re: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: Ack-Ack on December 03, 2013, 07:23:23 PM

Quote from: USRanger on December 03, 2013, 05:29:04 PM

I have a bunch of downloaded movies, but when I put a couple on DVDs, they will only play on my PC, not a regular DVD player.  Does anyone know the correct file type I need to have them in to play on a DVD player?  If I remember right, the movies I tried were in mp4 format.

I used to use Nero to burn movies onto a DVD so I can play later on my DVD.  Nero did the conversion for me as it had an option to select to burn to DVD and would do everything else, including making a main selection menu screen.  The only times I had an issue is when I tried to burn .mov files, for some reason Nero didn't like that and the DVDs wouldn't play on my DVD player.

ack-ack

Title: Re: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: bigsky on December 03, 2013, 08:34:20 PM

try cyberlink power dvd

Title: Re: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: USRanger on December 04, 2013, 05:55:31 PM

Thanks fellas.  The work continues..

Title: Re: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: Rich46yo on December 04, 2013, 06:01:15 PM

MPEG-2 is the standard DVD compression.

Title: Re: Which movie file types will play on a standard dvd player
Post by: USRanger on December 04, 2013, 09:26:42 PM

Thank you!