copying movies and dvds

I created a movie using windows movie maker but cannot copy the file to a
disc.I also tried copying my collection of dvd but none of them is
successfully copied to a disc. I always get the message "windows have
encountered a problem when copying this file" at the very beginning.pls help
me.

On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:01:25 -0800, shianne wrote:

> I created a movie using windows movie maker but cannot copy the file to a
> disc.I also tried copying my collection of dvd but none of them is
> successfully copied to a disc. I always get the message "windows have
> encountered a problem when copying this file" at the very beginning.pls help
> me.

if you are trying to use the in-built Windows writing tool, then AFAIK it
won't write to DVD - you need a third-party application to do that.

--
Gordon Burgess-Parker
Interim Systems and Management Accounting
www.gbpcomputing.co.uk

Gordon wrote:

> On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 06:01:25 -0800, shianne wrote:
>
>> I created a movie using windows movie maker but cannot copy the file
>> to a disc.I also tried copying my collection of dvd but none of them
>> is successfully copied to a disc. I always get the message "windows
>> have encountered a problem when copying this file" at the very
>> beginning.pls help me.
>
> if you are trying to use the in-built Windows writing tool, then
> AFAIK it won't write to DVD - you need a third-party application to
> do that.



Correct. But even if he is trying to "copy" to a CDR, it can't do that.
Unless you have special "packet-writing" software installed, you can't
simply copy a file to a CDR as if it were a hard drive or floppy.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Hi--I've successfully created a movie and saved it to my computer, but once I
copied the movie to a DVD (using InterVideo WinDVD creator) to play on my
television, the quality degraded considerably--much blurrier picture on TV
than on computer. Has anyone found a way to copy movies from computer so
that they play on television DVD player with minimal quality deterioration?
thanks in advance for any and all help.
--
lam


"shianne" wrote:

> I created a movie using windows movie maker but cannot copy the file to a
> disc.I also tried copying my collection of dvd but none of them is
> successfully copied to a disc. I always get the message "windows have
> encountered a problem when copying this file" at the very beginning.pls help
> me.

Hi--I've successfully created a movie and saved it to my computer, but once I
copied the movie to a DVD (using InterVideo WinDVD creator) to play on my
television, the quality degraded considerably--much blurrier picture on TV
than on computer. Has anyone found a way to copy movies from computer so
that they play on television DVD player with minimal quality deterioration?
thanks in advance for any and all help.
--
lam
--
lam


"shianne" wrote:

> I created a movie using windows movie maker but cannot copy the file to a
> disc.I also tried copying my collection of dvd but none of them is
> successfully copied to a disc. I always get the message "windows have
> encountered a problem when copying this file" at the very beginning.pls help
> me.

On Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:34:02 -0700, lam
<lam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hi--I've successfully created a movie and saved it to my computer, but once I
>copied the movie to a DVD (using InterVideo WinDVD creator) to play on my
>television, the quality degraded considerably--much blurrier picture on TV
>than on computer. Has anyone found a way to copy movies from computer so
>that they play on television DVD player with minimal quality deterioration?
>thanks in advance for any and all help.
>--
>lam

Try the videohelp.com web forum.