Burning to dvd

[TEAK36]

I have recorded some video on a borrowed camcorder which uses one of the small DVD-RW Discs, but when I put in in my DVD player, it would not play, nor would it play on my laptop, and both are DVD +/-RW compatable.I can playback the movie on the camcorder ok.I decided to use Nero to copy the movie to my hard drive as an image file, but I am having trouble burning the image to a normal 4.7 GB DVD-RW disc.When I click on the image file it automatically opens up Nero, I then choose the burn option and Nero starts to burn to disc, and after about 15 miutes it tells me the burn was successful, but when I try to play the disc it is blank.I have a program called powerISO and have tried various options, but still nothing happens.I now have my movie in ISO,BIN,and NRG formats, but I am completely stumped how I go about burning one of these files ont a DVD-RW disc so that it will play on my laptop or DVD player.

Any help would be most appreciated.

[vehelpfulguy]

You normaly need to finalize a DVD before you can play it in another player.

Once a DVD has been finalized nothing more can be added to it.

[ugly_bob]

I'm not 100% sure, but it sounds like you're trying to burn an image of a mini DVD onto a standard DVD, which, by rights, shouldn't work.

I would suggest what you need to do is copy the files from the mini DVD to your PC, rather than creating an image of the disc, then burning these to a DVD

[TEAK36]

Thanks for your replies.

ugly_bob, I used Nero to copy the disc to my hard drive, but this would not work.The only thing that seemed to work is if I saved the file as an image, which is what I did, but I cant seem to get the image converted to DVD so that I can view it.

[ugly_bob]

what format is the video in on the mini DVD? rigth click on it in My Computer and select explore, then right click on the files and go to properties.

[TEAK36]

ugly_bob

I dont have the disc with me at work, but when I put the disc in the drive on my laptop at home nothing happens.When I moved the cursor over the drive number is says 0 bytes, but I know the file is on the disc because the image I saved is over 500MB.I am completely confused! When I get home tonight I will try the explore option you mentioned to see if that shows me anything.

[ugly_bob]

you can also extract the files from the image if you mount the image file using powerISO. (Not 100% with this software - should be in the menu's somewhere).
Once mounted, use the virtual drive as you would a normal disc and you can see what has been created in your image file.

Whichever way, you should be able to find some mpeg (probably) format files somewhere which will be what you want.