After burning mpgs to DVD, only some show up - why?

[oceanauk]

Hi - I've just bought an external DVD rewriter and after burning my mpegs to DVD (OS is XP, burning software is Nero Express 6) I find that although all the movies are on the disk, when I put the disk into my DVD player, only some of the movies show up and play. Any ideas why please? I am burning the disk as data - so putting movies straight onto the disk as they are to try and maintain quality. The ones that do show up play fine and the quality is perfect. Also just to say that on my laptop, all the movies are on the disk and play fine on that. Any tips would be great thanks!!

[Gandy]

Is your DVD player a PC based one or a silver box that connects to your telly? If it's the telly one then I suspect that the DVD player does not support the format used by some of the files.

If you are copying them as data, then Nero will not alert you to the fact that files in this format willl not be playable on a standard DVD player. Try burning the files as Video, Nero will then convert them as nessecary.

[dilf]

can you get round it that wy can you

well explain how all that zip stuff works on e wasteofthirtyoddquid mule

[Postdog]

You say SOME play?

Just a thought, but it may be to do with Codecs. I can play some files as video on one of my computers, but not another. The second computer is not connected to the internet (I just use it as a back up store for data) and so does not have up to date codecs as the main PC does. There is nothing wrong with the files, just the means to play them, and it may be your DVD player doesn't have the necessary either.

[ugly_bob]

As Gandy says, it's because of the file type. You're lucky that any of them work if you're burning them as data files. My DVD player won't recognise anything (even burnt DVD-Video)

You need to burn them as video files in order for normal DVD players to read them and Nero 6 will do this - Go to 'create DVD-Video' and then 'add video files'. Nero will then convert them for you, although depending on file type can be extremely slow (I've known it take 6hrs to burn 1 DVD before)

[oceanauk]

Thank you for your replies - yes my DVD player is a stand alone attached to the TV - the files I'm burning are already mpeg format and my player can read mpegs. The files are all the same - that's why I cannot understand why some are fine and others are not showing. It looks like I may have to resort back to TMPGEnc for encoding again!! ? !! Is there a site for complete novices re: starting out DVD video burning? Cheers!!!