Help w/ a little video problem...

budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
edited December 2003 in Science & Tech
I have some video that i took on my camera a week long dive trip. I can get to play on my PC but not in my DVD player. I am not one of the lucky ones w/ a DVD burner though, all i got is the old CDR/RW burner. I figure this is a format prob, and my MVI is not a common format for DVD players to play, but my new DVD player plays DVD, MP3, JPEG, and WMA. So how do i make my videos in to a compatable format? I use Roxio EZ5 Platinum to burn.


I have a son being born in 3 months and dont want to waste a lot of non playable video....

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  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    starting w/ my camera a little bit and found that there are to video formats....NTSC and PAL....didnt know if that was any extara help?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited December 2003
    First NTSC is the way to go for North America, PAL is the European market.

    What kind of camera do you have. I'll assume it's digital or is it one that burns straight onto a DVD.

    If it's burning straight to mini-DVD or CD and it won't play on your DVD player then it simply won't play. You'll need to copy it to your computer and convert it to a regular DVD format and burn it back to DVD or CD-R.

    Either way your DVD player is playing the following Standard DVD's and the MP3 and WMA are a type of music format JPEG is still pictures.

    As for your exact solution hard to say as there are a lot of varriables....but never fear go to this site and read, Read, READ!!!!

    http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    Well that is the first place i turned and got real real real lost....lol

    Couldnt post there to ask some questions, but plan on it today! (they make u wait 24 hrs)

    Camera im using is a Canon A60

    Its putting stuff out in AVI and i am reading on how to conver but it seems that i am going to have to pay for programs to do this and if that is the case i may as well buy a DVDR/RW seems to me.

    What do you think or does anyone have any suggestions?
  • HalOfBorgHalOfBorg West Virginia
    edited December 2003
    Burn that onto a standard CDR.
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    yea player can handle VCD but getting it from AVI to VCD is the prob....
  • timinatortiminator PA
    edited December 2003
    AVI to VCD can be done using the program TMPGEnc which is a free download. Then burn with Nero or whatever you use.
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    ok...i looked at that program and even downloaded it but i guess i didnt understand that.....

    Will give it a whirl tonight...thx alot!
  • HalOfBorgHalOfBorg West Virginia
    edited December 2003
    If you have the codecs to watch a video, NERO can use it to make a VCD.
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    dont have nero am using Roxio
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    TMP says that my video is unsupported....

    Any thoughts?
  • timinatortiminator PA
    edited December 2003
    hmmm..thats strange. id suggest getting a free or like 10 dollar cd burner from officemax just for the version of nero inside :-)
  • budhisetiawanbudhisetiawan Mars Hill, NC Member
    edited December 2003
    Well after reading the help over at DVDhelper.com, I figured the problem was.

    The key is that i had the software the whole time. Roxio's EZCD Plat 5 has what is called Video Impressions that works it all out...it converts and burns.

    Thx all for your help

    Bud
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