Burning a DVD

by swestside, posted on Jan 21, 2008

What format are the files? There are many different formats for files. Usually if you download them they will be divx or something of such matter; This is why you can only play them on your computer. To play them on a DVD player you'll need to change the format, usually known as re-encoding, then record to a DVD disc. Some DVD players allow video on cd's usually known as VCD, or Video Compact Disk. That also requires re-encoding. to find out what type of format it is you'll need to change the "view" in the upper task bar to "details". Then if the file extension does not show up then you have to go into the folder menu which is "tools"->"folder options"-> "View" tab -> uncheck "Hide extentions for known file types" then press "OK". Then post the file extension here. example: "filename.avi" the second part is the file extension. in this case it is ".avi"