anastasia: nero should give you some options/warnings that sould have made the correct copy for all types of differnt players and not just for the pc, i cant check now as im working from my laptop for a while ,
make sure you can play copies on your dvd player too as some wont play certain brands.

Jason: ok...gateway told me it was the burning speed of the disk,so I changed that...now it still won't play.Out of ideas!! I have dvd+ and dvd- Can I add to these disks,or once I burn one thing is that it? Like when I burn to a cd..I can add more to it,is the same true with the dvd's? I hate to blow through 20 dvd's trying to get this thing figured out!!

anastasia: if you can add to them then the cd/dvd has not been closed , it will then only work on your pc , if you can close it then that should help

Jason: I'm getting so upset with this thing..honestly!!! I just want to add the movies onto a DVD so I can watch them on a dvd player.HOW HARD IS THAT!!!??!! obviously to hard for me to figure out.Any ideas PLEASE!!!

anastasia: What options are you choosing in nero? You need to choose nero start smart... photo and video... make your own DVD video. It sounds like you're choosing a different option, I've made that mistake before and had a film I could only watch on my PC.

harley: I'm gonna try that one RIGHT NOW and let you know what happens!!!

harley: it told me that there was no compatible file found...but it is also thinking that I want to burn a dvd file,and I don't I want to burn a saved video file.I was clicking on the option to make a data dvd,which has not been working at all for me.I then tried doing a bootable...again able to watch on puter but not dvd player.Then tried making a video cd that can be played in most players but it is saying that I need some kind of cable.Honestly...is it REALLY this difficult,lol!!??!! On tv they showed the guy just making movie after movie,well,NOT ME!

anastasia: What type of file is it? Its always hard to figure these things out the first time but once you've done it once you're away! Don't give up, it will be something simple.

harley: sorry it took so long to get this post up...All I can tell you are the ones I am burning say...video clip bit rate 1536kp dimension 720x576 size 291. That is the one that I am burning to the dvd but then the dvd will not play in a regular dvd player...just the puter.The origanial files (before I edit them in my pinnacle) say quicktime movie size 17.6 mb.I have to convert them though to play through the pinnalce.does this help you at all to help ME figure out what is going on? I am going to get ahold of BOTH gateway and pinnalcle AGIAN today if I have some time before work.

anastasia: maybe you could try it in someone elses dvd player , some wont play all types of media .

anastasia: Do you have a Kodak camera? I have a Kodak and the videos come in .mov format = Quicktime movie.
Plays perfect in the computer but not in a DVD-player. There are many programs where you can convert, i tried a free one but it didnt work out too well.
Im sure if you do a google serach for videoconverter you'll be able to find one

Andersp: it is a kodak,YES!!! Pinnacle sent me a thing to change the format..still nothing.

anastasia: i typed convert+mov in Google and i had many hits. There are a lot of programs.
Usually you can download for free and test them.

Andersp: I do have a program that works great BUT still can't get the dvd to play in anything other then a puter

anastasia: should be one format which works everywhere only, but i guess there are reasons (money) why they have to make things so complicated

Andersp: lol...I have to admit,after spending $300.00 on this pinnacle and it not working...making me a WEEEEE bit upset!! even the nero isn't doing the trick though.

anastasia: It may also be the DVD player.

I have a very nice DVD 5-disc changer which will only play some of my burnt DVD movies, but I then also have a very cheap ($39) DVD Player from Wal-Mart which will play them all.

So you may be burning everything OK, just that your DVD player can't play them. (Not sure why, some are just more 'picky' then others.)

BIG BAD WOLF: I just got off phone with gateway and they said that aolt of players can't read jpeg format..I have NO IDEA what format the movies are because they load as "quicktime" this is the only thing that she can come up with.HOWEVER....pinnacle sent me that program to chnage the format...HOWEVER....I cannot burn through the pinnacle for some reason and I am now waiting to here back from them.HONESTLY...maybe THIS will convince my husband to buy us a new dvd recorder instead of me recording movies from my reg digital camera.

anastasia: Well I now use Nero 7 for all my burning of movies.

There is an option to "Make your own DVD-Video" where you go and choose your video file (from .avi or other formats), it will let you make menues and such, and will do all the coverting & buring itself. It takes awhile, but I normally start before I go to bed, and in the morning it is done.

Before I started using Nero 7, I was using a few different programs for converting, and burning and such, and was getting to be a pain - and found Nero 7 a help - easy program to do all my burning & converting.

BIG BAD WOLF: I think the converting is the problem...the lady from gateway said that since the still photos are in jpeg fprmat,chances are that the movies are in jpeg format and dvd players cannot read a jpeg format.I am still waiting (probably take a while since this is a holiday weekend) to hear back from pinnacle about what they say.I try to burn through pinnalce and it says that it is burning but nothing actually happens.I am only trying to burn 60 seconds worth of video...surely it wouldn't take 45 minutes to do that,would it?