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Posted on Dec 18, 2008

Copied dvds will not play on other dvd players

I brought 2 different types off blank videos

  • Nick Chapman
    Nick Chapman May 11, 2010

    we have to know what the original discs are -- comercially pressed dvds or burned copies. if they are burned, we have to know if they play in a stand-alone DVD player, or only on a computer.


    comercially pressed DVDs are usually 6-7GB of data and single layer DVD discs usually only hold 4.7 GB of data. thus, when copying a DVD to hope version, the video must be resized. i think there is software called dvdshrink that does this, and i believe it is free.


    burned dvds can have various data, which works on other computers, or standard DVD-Video information which will play in computers or stand alone DVD players. if the former, the video may need to be burned after using a dvd authoring tool (dvd flick) and then burned with software (nero, cdburnerxp[free]) to a blank disc before it will work on a standalone DVD player.


    good luck!

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Are you using DVD+R or DVD-R to burn the movies to? DVD+R is what you want to burn movies to for best quality and DVD-Rs are for like pictures and documents etc (even though you can also burn those to a DVD+R). Secondly, most movies that burn are played back in MP3 format, make sure your dvd playing is capable of playing MP3s.

What exactally do you mean by you bought 2 different types of blank videos?

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