Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Cannot burn DVDs that play.

Feb 8, 2011 9:50PM PST

Hi there everyone. This is my first foray into the world of creating movies using windows movie maker on Vista Home Premium. I have created a movie that plays fine on my laptop. When I burn it to disc it appears to burn correctly and I get all the right messages. The problem comes later when I try to play the DVD. It is not recognised by any DVD players, and I have tried it on several different makes. All I get is an on screen message saying that tthe DVD player is loading the disc which never goes away. Any hints or tips would be appreciated. Thanks

Discussion is locked

- Collapse -
That's a common complaint about WMM
Feb 9, 2011 2:45AM PST

Windows Movie Maker (what version?) often makes media that plays only on Windows PCs. This is well discussed. To make media that plays on DVD players takes more effort as well as other discussions about DVD plus or minus media, closed sessions and more.

Let me share that I don't use WMM for this very reason. I use free tools like DVD FLICK, Imgburn for my simple videos.
Bob

- Collapse -
(NT) Tham
Feb 9, 2011 5:38PM PST
- Collapse -
Thanks
Feb 9, 2011 5:39PM PST

I'll give those a try.

- Collapse -
Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker
Feb 9, 2011 8:11AM PST

I have successfully burned over 400 .dvr-ms files to DVD's.
Using Windows Movie Makerv6.0 (1)importing the video, (2)doing the edit, and taking the product to the storyboard and (3) publishing to DVD. The actual burn is handled by Windows DVD Maker. BTW: I buy the 100 DVD spindles of HP branded DVD+R media.

More important is what file extension you create. Stand-alone DVD players will not play WMV.
That has been a problem with both of my external players, although the computer plays it.

- Collapse -
File extensions
Feb 9, 2011 5:44PM PST

Thanks wb2001.

I have tried all sorts of file extensions including .avi, I have even tried MP2 but still no joy. I have tried TDK -R and +R on 100 spindles as they are rated among the top 5 makes for reliability.

I suppose its back to the drawing board.

- Collapse -
That's why Bob recommended DVD Flick.
Feb 9, 2011 5:46PM PST

It converts everything to what it should be on a regular movie DVD.

Kees

- Collapse -
Still no joy
Feb 9, 2011 9:28PM PST

I must be doing something really wrong because I have imported the .wmv file into DVD Flick and saved the project to file as dvdflick project. I then burnt the file to dvd using IMGBurn but it still wont play on a DVD player although it is recognised as a dvd by windows media player. Do you ever have one of those weeks?

- Collapse -
I then burnt the file to dvd
Feb 10, 2011 12:22AM PST

If you burn the file to a dvd then you have a file on a dvd and did not create a VIDEO DVD.

If said file was an .ISO then with ImgBurn I could burn a dvd from the .iso (the words and actions are a little different here) and that should result in a Video DVD.

The details matter. If you have written .ISO somewhere in the discussion, we'd know which step was off.
Bob