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Dvd Burning Bust DVD Player wont play my DVD's

#1 Cowboy4Life

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:18 PM

Hello All,

I'm pretty new to the whole computer world in general. Recently I started experimenting with DVD burning of home video's and some torrents. I'm currently using either Nero and/or Wondershare Ultimate. When I burn my DVD the software states complete, but my DVD player can't read the disks. I have tried the single and double layer DVS and still nothing. I have done this process five times with the same result. Maybe you guys can show me the light as to what I am doing wrong. Thank you in advance.

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Posted 23 January 2012 - 12:54 PM

It's quite possible that your DVD player can read DVD-Rs, but not DVD+Rs, or vise versa. If it's an old DVD Player, maybe it can't read discs you burned at all.

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 05:52 AM

One thing could be the format of disc like it was already mentioned above.

Another possible could be the format that you are burning it in. What are format of the home and torrent? By this, I mean is it avi file type or mov file type. Also what is the compression used? ( Divx, etc...)

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#4 Cowboy4Life

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Posted 24 January 2012 - 09:24 PM

Dellinsp531, on 24 January 2012 - 05:52 AM, said:

Well the vidos are xvid, then when I burn them a new folder, TS_VIDEO, is created ans the files inside are TS i believe.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 05:52 AM

Many DVD players do not support xvid. Check your DVD player to see what it can read. After that, make sure the program use that compress when writing the DVD.

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Posted 25 January 2012 - 09:56 AM

If you are using nero, there is an application that will transcode the movie from xvid to mpeg2 before burning. This process generally takes about an hour, maybe 2 depending on content. Did you go through all of that first?

Also, if you dvd player supports xvid natively, then you need to burn straight data discs, not dvd video format discs.

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Posted 07 May 2012 - 11:22 AM

Hi, I run a photo studio with partnership of my boy friend. My experience says that there are multiple types of DVDs, and certain DVD players and burners will only accept certain types of disks. Use the DVD Buyer's Guide to check that you are using the RIGHT TYPE of DVD. If you bought your DVD player within the past couple years, you should be able to use it to play DVDs burned on your home computer. However, older DVD players won’t necessarily recognize and play home-burned DVDs.
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