Trying to burn a DVD

[McGooTheWise]

It's a picture video a neighbor made for her Daughter's Volley Ball team, and she was having trouble, so i told her I'd take a look... And now I can't figure the ****er out...

I figured it'd be as simple as putting the disk in and burning it, well... did that, and now it seems that the disk is still empty, as DVD players can't view it, the computer reads it as a blank disk, and I can't burn anything onto any of the disks after I have tried this hacked process of burning it.

Any ideas on how it might be fixed? They need this by tomorrow, and I'd like to get it to them tonight.

 

[Dumb Dude]

Did you just burn the video file as is? If you want DVD players to read it, your best bet is using a burning program that can do VCDs. That way it won't take super long to encode it to DVD format and you don't have to waste a whole DVD on something thats probably less than 1gb.

You simply use the program of choice (Nero does it fine), choose the VCD option, and burn it on a normal CD-R. Almost any DVD player (made in the past 3 or 4 years) will read it just fine. The whole process does take a while though as it has to convert the video file, but it'd take longerif you tried doing the same for a DVD.

Also, anyone feel free to correct me if I am mistaken. This just seems like the easiest path for him to take seeing as how he has a limited amount of time.

EDIT: This is all assuming of course that the source video is small emough to fit on a CD-R.

 

[McGooTheWise]

It is. I was using Windows Movie Maker, and it supposedly burns DVDs well, but I guess not. What are some programs I could try to use? (Besides Nero, because I already tried it, and it wanted a code for the trial to run... So I said **** that shit. *nods*)

 

[Dumb Dude]

You can try this: http://www.burnaware.com/burnaware_free.html

Says it supports all types of different whatnots and the free version looks like it does VCDs.

 

[McGooTheWise]

Alright. Thanks, man.

 

[Warped]

yeah thank you too, i've been looking for a new program to use. i hate shareware and 30 day limits