Burning DVD-R playable on a stand-alone DVD Player using Nero Express 6

If you're talking about making "Home Video" into playable DVDs it's not because there's necessarily a problem with your DVD-Burner. It's most likely because your home videos are being recorded as .AVI format files. There are some other file formats it could be, but it all boils down to the same problem: the DVDs you make will only play in computers or on the rare chance that you come across a DVD player that plays those formats. The best way to remedy this situation is to buy a program that will convert the files from .AVI to DVD. There are several to choose from. Roxio reportedly has software\programs that will do this. I'm sure that Nero does too. Both companies produce several different versions of "Burning Software" do your research and be sure you buy one that will convert the files for you. There is another one that I've personally used to convert the files and burn the DVDs for me. It's "I'm Too AVI-to-DVD". I know that is an odd name for a program, but it's straight forward in what it's function is. When I used this program to convert the file formats for me and burn the DVDs it literally took several hours to convert and burn about 5GB of video for me. I don't know if Roxio or Nero would be able to do it faster than that. converting file formats can be a lengthy process.

There is a big chance that your CD/DVD is defective or your CD writer. Have you tried burning another CD?

if you want to burn a movie in a stand alone dvd player you need to convert the avi to dvd .vob format first.

If your dvd can play divx along with vob (dvd) format then just burn the avi using the data dvd function you maybe able to put 3 or 4 movies on a 4 gig dvd. This will not work on a stand alone dvd player.

Hi,

i think you,ve hit the nail-on-the-head.
The laser has to power up highrer to write a DVD, or ocassionally have a dual laser. 1 for read/write CD. And 1 For Read/Write DVD.
Certain cd roms, only use CD- media. it,s probably worth checking which media is supported by the drive.
Also check the drives aren,t conflicting, on the same ide channel, sometimes swapping channels, ide primary/secondary can help, or swiitching Master/Slave/cable select jumpers on the drives Themselves.

Mike @ Compurepair.

Hi,

To burn DVD video with Nero, u need to buy the DVD video (like DOLBY) plugin from the nero site. Alternatively. u may use some open source plugins for the same,........but not with the Nero!

Try some other free DVD authoring tool on the net.

Examples are available at: http://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/dvdcdburning.shtml


bye

I hope this solves ur problem

Have a nice time

hi there

1st off, are you using a dvd/cd writer?

if so, do you have your burning software, i.e. Nero Express.

Please ellaborate more on your issue.

if you do have these stated above, your good to go in burning dvds or cd.

If this does not work for you you can try the Nero dvd-video-plugin
This enables you to drop video files into Nero and burn dvd discs compatible with standalone dvd players.

If you have the full version of Nero you should already have this option.

no data dvds work on the players.

use NERO 6 OEM to write Video DVDs or CDs they will run Players

Laser got weak. buy a new one

If you use the Nero Smart start, you should see an icon to switch from burning CDs to burning DVDs. Once you click this icon, you should be able to burn to DVDs. Step-by-Step tuturials can be found for nero products here" Nero 7 http://ww2.nero.com/nero7/enu/Tutorials.html Nero 6 http://ww2.nero.com/nero6/enu/Tech_Support.html