Problems with Audio and Menus

[niallmitch]

Apologies if this has been covered before, and I'm sure it will have been, but I've tried searching the forum and I can't find what I'm looking for.

I'm trying to make my first DVD, and though I don't really know what I'm doing, I'm getting close. Close but not quite...

I have edited a clip in VideoStudio, and converted it into an MPEG 2 file. Iam now trying to use Movie Factory to make this into a DVD.

I tried a DVD-R disc, but my drive would not recognise it.

By mistake, I tried a CD-RW and this almost worked, except that when I play it in my stand-alone DVD player, it brings up a strange menu with audio and video folders. I can get the video to play, and the audio I selected for my Menu screen plays, but when the actual clip plays, there is no sound.

This disc will play perfectly well on my computer with Ulead DVD Player, however.

I just went out and bought some DVD+RWs, but my drive will not recognise these. I then dug out the specs of my drive and it is a Sony CD-RW drive, so maybe that is my problem there. Do I need a special drive to create DVDs?

I'm sure it's clear I'm fairly clueless about these things, but if I could just get a 10 second clip from camera to editing program to disc to DVD player, there would be no stopping me.


I'll be very grateful for any help anyone can provide

[jedi-jae]

Is your drive definitely a DVD drive? If it is not recognising either DVD format, then you may only have a CD drive. Replacing it is not difficult though and I recommend the NEC 3540A, which recognises everything including dual layer discs, but not DVD RAM. There is an MF4 update specifically for this drive too.

Anyway, try a regular DVD movie in your drive to see if it is a DVD one.

[rdenny]

I tried a DVD-R disc, but my drive would not recognise it.

Huh? What kind of drive is it?