Can't get to play DVD on standalone player

[Guest]

Once project is completed in wmm, what is best way to burn? If I open Nero
and Add Video Files, the burning process takes 4 hours for a 40 minute video.
If you open project in wmm, and right click on the media file, you can send
to sonic which burns the DVD in 2 minutes! Why the difference? Saving the
file as DV AVI makes the file 8.28 GB which won't fit on the disk. Saving it
as High Quality Video makes the file 471 MB which burns fine. Either way,
the disks will not play on a standalone player. When I transferred video
from camcorder into wmm and let the defaults save the program as it wanted,
it played on the standalone player but the quality was poor as the resolution
was low.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I can believe hours for a 40 minute video... from Movie Maker to DVD... 2
minutes for Sonic just doesn't seem right. Maybe Sonic isn't doing what you
expect it to.
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Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Bob [MVP]]

It takes so long in Nero because it needs to convert
the file from DV-AVI to MPEG-2 format before it can
start actually burning the DVD.

Whatever Sonic is doing in 2 minutes, I can guaranty
that it isn't burning your video to the DVD. That's
simply impossible.

The best method is to save your movie in Movie Maker
in DV-AVI format. Then use Nero to author & burn the
DVD. And make sure you are "authoring" a standard
video DVD, and not just burning the video file to a
data disc.

--
-Bob
_______________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/ehome

 

[Steve]

For making DVDs you need to:

Save Movie as DV-AVI in WMM2.1.
Open Sonic.
Import your saved DV-AVI.
Burn
Play on stand alone player.

Sonic (and I'm sure Nero) can fit about 13GB onto a disk.
Don't be confused with the 4.7GB data file capacity. DVD
authoring software compresses the file to fit. Rule is
about an hour saved as DV-AVI (approx 13GB) will fit.

Steve

 

[Wojo]

Agreed, sort of. It takes me about 1 1/2 hours to burn a 40 minute video
with Nero and a little less than an hour when I use either Roxio CD Creator
or ULead Moviemaker so to me almost 5 hours is too long and sounds like a
problem.
On the other hand 2 minutes with Sonic I guarantee is a problem and the
problem is most likely that your simply burning the file to CD not creating
a standalone DVD. That process would only take a few minutes.

 

[Guest]

OK, thanks. I now see that sending it to Nero will allow it to play on a
standalone player. However, the audio is "ahead" of the video when played.
I suppose I can slow down the burn process? I burned at max before. What
setting should be used? In response to Bob's reply, how would I know that
Nero is just burning and not authoring? It also appears that Sonic doesn't
convert to the proper format but it certainly only takes 2 minutes to burn
and it can be viewed afterwards on the computer but not a standalone player.

For making DVDs you need to:

Save Movie as DV-AVI in WMM2.1.
Open Sonic.
Import your saved DV-AVI.
Burn
Play on stand alone player.

Sonic (and I'm sure Nero) can fit about 13GB onto a disk.
Don't be confused with the 4.7GB data file capacity. DVD
authoring software compresses the file to fit. Rule is
about an hour saved as DV-AVI (approx 13GB) will fit.

Steve

 

[steve]

Something just doesn't sound right with Sonic. How big is
the file? Is it DV-AVI? Are you making a DVD or VCD?

-----Original Message-----
OK, thanks. I now see that sending it to Nero will allow it to play on a
standalone player. However, the audio is "ahead" of the video when played.
I suppose I can slow down the burn process? I burned at max before. What
setting should be used? In response to Bob's reply, how would I know that
Nero is just burning and not authoring? It also appears that Sonic doesn't
convert to the proper format but it certainly only takes 2 minutes to burn
and it can be viewed afterwards on the computer but not a standalone player.

 

[Jeffraham Prestonian]

Something just doesn't sound right with Sonic. How big is
the file? Is it DV-AVI? Are you making a DVD or VCD?

If he's burning a DVD in two minutes, it's a data DVD. It's
obviously not going through any compressing/authoring
process... and he can still play a data DVD's files on his
local PC, no sweat. He's burning a data DVD.

 

[Bob [MVP]]

In two minutes I don't think he's burning anything.
(other than possibly a coaster ;-)

He said his video was over 8GB. Can't burn that to
a data DVD in two minutes. No way...

I suspect that Sonic is just aborting the operation,
but not generating an error message.

--
-Bob
_______________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/ehome

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

He could be burning the project file... and as long as the DVD is on the
computer, opening and playing the preview in Movie Maker will work fine...
with the source files still on the hard drive.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Jeffraham Prestonian]

He could be burning the project file... and as long as the DVD is on the
computer, opening and playing the preview in Movie Maker will work fine...
with the source files still on the hard drive.

Heh! Hadn't thought of that. Let's see if his speedy
DVD will play his movie on a different PC.
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