Burning a DVD - help req'd please
 

I'm having a few problems, can anyone help please ... here's what I've done.

- Transferred some video from my digital camcorder to the PC via firewire ( 1394 ) link
- saved the film of c. 2.5GB in mpeg format
- tried to then burn this movie to my DVD rewriter ( HP / Ricoh DVD+RW 4x ) onto a a Philips DVD+RW Video DVD disc
- tried using 2 software burners ( Deepburner and RecordNow! )

It seems to go through but when I try to play this DVD on my DVD+RW compatible new DVD player ( Sony DVP-NS355 ) it says 'Cannot play this disc' .....

It's pi$$ing me off now ... can anyone suggest where I'm going wrong and / or a solution ???

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
P

what software are you using to write the dvd?

Are you converting the MPEG into a DVD format, or are you just writing a data DVD containing the MPEG file.

If the later then your DVD may not be able to play MPEG files, regardless of what media it can read...

J4Mou ... I use either Deepburner or RecordNow! to write to DVD ...

Mogsi ... I haven't converted the raw MPEG file to DVD, I just burned to a bland Video / data DVD+RW in the same format ... any suggestions ?

Thanks for your help ...

I think Sony DVDs are a little tempramental. Mine was happy to play a DVD-RW disk I cut a few weeks back, but not a new (different brand) DVD-R that I cut last night. Used the same process for authoring both.

Have you tried a different brand of disk? I plan to try another brand for the new disk.

You need proper DVD authoring software - the majority of players want to see a DVD written in a certain way. Not had a great deal of experience with authoring software though Pinnacle do some (I got free with DVD drive). No doubt there will be loads of reccomendations, probably some free stuff about too.

www.dvdhelp.com

Lot of help guides about creating DVDs.

As suggested, you can't just copy a mpg file onto a DVD for it to play. You need to create the DVD files from the mpg (called authoring). The webiste has lots of guides and some programs in the Tools section that may help you. You also need to ensure the video has been encoded into the correct DVD specs. Most authoring apps will need you to encode into elemetry streams first (one for the video and one for the sound) and import into the authoring software. Other apps will let you import an mpg file and then demux it for you.

Let me know if you need any help. I do a lot of this at home :)