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Burning AVI files to DVD disks so it plays on dvd players

My dvd thingy plays dvds like normal dvds that you buy from the shops fine and stuff. but i want to burn my avi movie files onto a dvd disk so that i can then play them on my dvd player in the lounge and itll work. like clear picture and everything.
im not so good with computers and stuff so complicated computer terms will just go right over my head. i literally have no idea how to burn dvds with this SOHW-1693SX machine thing. simplified clear language for instructions would be just so great.
thanks

  • nicolechan May 07, 2008

    sorry um its a LITE ON DVD/ CD rewritable drive model SOHW-1693SW i

  • Larry Ng
    Larry Ng May 15, 2022

    what do you mean by DVD-=players
    cheap dedicated players with tiny tilt out screens .
    if yes,no makers name of player, nor model told
    so there can be no answer but 1. (below)O
    the problem here is the word PLAyER, MEANS ZERO.
    HAND PLAYERS
    USB PLUG IN EXTERNAL DVD PLAYERS FOR LAPTOPS LACKING ANY DVD DRIVES AT ALL/?????
    OR HOME TV DVD PLAYERS, SEE WHAT I MEAN BY LACK OF KEY FACTS?
    most old devices, all player of any kind old
    do to play at all DVD-R media.
    not all player (personal hand type) can play AVI files but all PCs can.

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DVD Burning is not simple at all, yes you push a button it does
like my app called imgburn.exe free
but ODD is the technology that you do not understand. sorry !@

optical disk drive .. all kinds and vast evolution from 1982 to 2022 and beyond, huge classes of evolution, CD/dvd, dvd blue ray up.
and worse, sorry but tech is complex by nature, drive that can only read non burned disks are vast . old PCs do not read burned disks(vast)
all things OLD fail for burned disks, and is vast in scope.
Most old things only read CDROMs,
some can read DVD but not DVD burned disks like DVD-R.
the drives look simple with tray and disks sitting there simple as can be but are in fact not simple.
why not learn to tell 2 things first. what is the end goal
and on what device must DVD-R work., name something.

NO end goal told just nebular DVR burned AVI
going where, not told and matters huge

  1. TV player (called a DVD deck)
  2. hand held DVD player with tiny screen. see photo above.
  3. Cars have DVD players, some do and screens in car.
  4. external USB drive player. vast kinds, and endless ways to fail buying the wrong one.! a hard cold fact , ask for help.
  5. PC ODD , of vast kinds that work or fails due to wrong drive in place. ask for advice here. and on a desktop PC we can do anything we want here,no matter what you dream up,.
  6. some TV (dorm kind) have built in DVD and fail. this.
most PCs older (and all other things) older than 1997
"DVD-R format was developed by Pioneer in 1997" wiki fact 1.
so that means the PC (or whatever) must be newer than that to have the drive,. or was an option now for 2 decades 97-2022
you buy a PC and pay extra to burn DVD
or add it later called and upgrade.
or what ever goal is , many things made can not be upgraded.
PC desktop is easy
TV devices, impossible or at huge labor or costs.
best is replace the whole devices if not a PC.
laptops have custom face plates that make the purchase hard.

or tell the helper the end goal. what is the target drivice
makers name and model, we can not guess of 10000
's of devices, not possible ever. to see in a text box what you own.

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You need a DVD burning program to do this.
Leawo DVD Creator is a handy and fast video converter and DVD burner combined program. It can burn AVI movies to DVD with ease. It can burn at high speed while the original quality is retained.

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Plz give the software make then only we can help

  • Anonymous May 08, 2008

    first of all you have to install a cd or dvd burning software(if it is not installed) like nero 6,7.after you install the software plz write back

  • Larry Ng
    Larry Ng May 15, 2022

    here is what A personal player looks like
    I can add photos all day long of other things
    that have DVD that will not play DVD-r disks
    or DVD+R or or DVD-rw disks, i can not see what you have at hand at all
    or at the TV
    or at the pC
    nor at the PC USB ports or
    what ever means Lounge? , IDK

    THERE ARE TV DVD PLAYERS THAT WILL FAIL OLD
    THERE ARE VAST OTHER THINGS AND pC THAT WILL FAIL FOR BURNED DISK EVEN SONY pLAY STATIONS ALL. AND MORE
    NOT TOLD WHAT YOU HAVE THAT FAILS NOT ONE CLUE.

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