I bought a compaq laptop with a built-in burner. I havnt tried it in the 2-3 years that ive bought it and recently recorded some footage and decided to try it out.
There was no dvd burning program that came with it, so I searched the net for a free one and tried Avs Disc creator.
I put the blank dvd into the dvd rw drive, and used AVS to try and burn a small video I created on windows movie maker. It failed; instead of burning my video into a dvd that I could play on my dvd player, it just put my video file on my disc. So if I inserted the disc onto my computer's dvd player it just came as a video file and I couln't play it on InterDvd or my home dvd player.
I have the trial verson of VideoStudio 10 plus and saw that it you could burn dvd's on it.
My question is that do I need to do anything to the dvd burner that came with my laptop so I could use it and if I could use videostudio to burn my movie.
Also I bought one verbatim dvd r disc and some of it is used because of that other trial. Do I need to buy another blank dvd r disc or could I just use the one I have now. I just used a bit of the one I have now, but do I need another one for it to work?
Laptops with built-in dvd burners
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One of my sons has a laptop and built in DVD burner and has no problem making DVD video discs.
Are you making a DVD video disc - or have you mistakenly created a DVD data disc. whilst the files copied onto a DVD data disc may appear identical (VOB ISO IFO files etc) the filing system is different.
You may get it to behave as expected on a computer but it would fail to work on a standalone DVD player.
Unlike a DVD data disc where you can keep adding files to that disc until it is full, with a DVD video disc once written to - you cannot add more files to it. Do not get confused with the standalone DVD recorders - these use yet another filing system that resembles a DVD video disc but in fact uses yet another filing system DVD VR (Video Recorder)
Here is an article describing the various DVD formats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_formats
Are you making a DVD video disc - or have you mistakenly created a DVD data disc. whilst the files copied onto a DVD data disc may appear identical (VOB ISO IFO files etc) the filing system is different.
You may get it to behave as expected on a computer but it would fail to work on a standalone DVD player.
Unlike a DVD data disc where you can keep adding files to that disc until it is full, with a DVD video disc once written to - you cannot add more files to it. Do not get confused with the standalone DVD recorders - these use yet another filing system that resembles a DVD video disc but in fact uses yet another filing system DVD VR (Video Recorder)
Here is an article describing the various DVD formats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD_formats
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brana
So if I accidently added some data to my blank dvd r disc, I cannot use it again?
Also do you know where I could get info on how to use my dvd burner? I tried the compaq customer service, but they said they wouldn't help me with anything until I payed another $45 for another year of warranty
Ok, so now if I bought another blank dvd r disc and created something on videostudio, then clicked the creat disc option and followed the instructions, would I creat a dvd video disc that I could play on my dvd player at home?
Last question, the following message comes up everytime I restart my computer:
Also do you know where I could get info on how to use my dvd burner? I tried the compaq customer service, but they said they wouldn't help me with anything until I payed another $45 for another year of warranty
Ok, so now if I bought another blank dvd r disc and created something on videostudio, then clicked the creat disc option and followed the instructions, would I creat a dvd video disc that I could play on my dvd player at home?
Last question, the following message comes up everytime I restart my computer: