Burning to DVD folders OK. Won't open and play on DVD player

jonnad · Post by **jonnad** » Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:07 pm

I have completed a simple slide show with music and burned it to my hard drive in a file folder. Verified it was there as an ISO image file. A program from Sonic RecordNow! was used to burn to disc. BUT it won't play on my DVD player (Sony).

What am I doing wrong? I created several projects a couple of years ago successfully, but have forgotten how. Thanks for any help!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 4:01 am

How did you burn it to disk, ISO file?

jonnad · Post by **jonnad** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 2:59 pm

I burned it to my hard drive in a DVD folder by using the Ulead program CD & DVD PictureShow 3 (Burn tab). When I went to my hard drive to open it, I chose "Open With" and the Sonic RecordNow! program opened and I (thought) I burned it to the disc in my E drive. When I took the disc to my Sony DVD player to play the slideshow, I received the message that it could not play that disc.

Thanks for whatever help you can give me!

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 11:46 pm

When you look at your DVD in a file viewer like the WIN Explorer, what do you see on the disk?

jonnad · Post by **jonnad** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 3:56 am

I see an icon the same as other DVDs made successfully several years ago, the title of the album, the words ISO Image file and 126,112 KB. I believe the project has been successfully burned to the hard disk. The problem is going from there to a successful burn to a disc which will play on a DVD player.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:00 am

Please view the FAQ:
Problems burning a DVD

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:22 am

jonnad wrote:I see an icon the same as other DVDs made successfully several years ago, the title of the album, the words ISO Image file and 126,112 KB. I believe the project has been successfully burned to the hard disk. The problem is going from there to a successful burn to a disc which will play on a DVD player.

I didn't mean on your HDD, I meant on the DVD disk. What do you see there?

jonnad · Post by **jonnad** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:53 am

I see the same thing on the disc itself as stated above. Thanks for your patience.

heinz-oz · Post by **heinz-oz** » Tue Aug 01, 2006 6:40 am

jonnad wrote:I see the same thing on the disc itself as stated above. Thanks for your patience.

That's what I thought. Your DVD player cannot play an ISO image file. You need a burn program like Ulead MovieFactory to burn this image file to DVD. I have never used this approach and, hence, cannot really tell you how to go about it.

The burning program has to recompile the image to create the correct DVD structure.

jonnad · Post by **jonnad** » Thu Aug 03, 2006 12:01 am

In an act of desperation, I decided to burn it directly to the disk and not a DVD folder. The message I got was that it was too big to fit on the disk. I thought that's impossible, it's only 12 slides with music. So I clicked Continue anyway. And guess what? It successfully burned (took 10 minutes at 4x speed), and I have played it on my DVD Sony player. So if others are getting that message, maybe they should ignore it, too.

Thanks again for all your suggestions!

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