I took some video on a digital camera using one of those SD cards, and now I have copied it to my computer and then to a CD, but why won't it play on my DVD player?? The pictures that I have copied to the CD show up on the DVD player but not the video. I would really appreciate your help.. It will play on your PC. Your DVD player is another matter.
A dvd player has similar components to a computer only with MUCH less power. The dvd player has it's own software known as firmware imbeded into it. Inside this firmware is code that interprets the information on any disk you insert.
when you put a disc inside the DVD player, it will run through a few checks, i.e. it will read information from the disc. It will then process the information to see what operations it should carry out. It will recognise the disk as a DVD, music cd, vcd and so forth.
You burnt a video direct from your pc to the disc. The code inside your dvd player knows it is a data disc, but it doesn't recognise the format of the movie because it hasn't been programmed to decode and output your type of video to the screen so it tells you no.
When a video file is made on a computer, a codec is used to compress the video. your computer has the right software to view the video file ( err, yes the codec) so it knows what to do.
I hope that helps you so far, it's a bit rough and thier maybe a flaw or 2 in the explination. here are some options:
1. If the video is compressed to Divx format, you can purchase a DVD player that supports Divx decoding. They are getting cheaper, but it's an expensive option, however it affords you the option of burning divx straight to a disc with out any hassles of decoding.
2. Invest in a media center pc for the lounge, so you can install the correct codecs on it with ever worrying about the format, as long as windows understands it. It's expensive but upgradable and has lots of space for movies.
3. Purchase a dvd-recorder which has a built in harddrive, it should also support divx and should shave a way of connecting to your network pc so you can send files to it's harddrive ovcer a network. It should support divx if your file is in divx format. Expensive.
4. You can convert the movie file to another format which the dvd player does understand. At this moment i don't know what model player you have but i know it supports DVD's. So you can get software that will convert the video file, and burn it to a dvd for you, in a format the DVD player understands,i.e. DVD-VIDEO. If you don't have a dvd writer, then we will assume that your DVD player can at least play a VCD's (check the manual first).
A VCD is a video disk. It is not a disk with just any old video on it, it's a disk with video on that has been encoded a certain way so that a dvd player can play it, i.e. recognise it as a MPEG stream. etc
I unfortunatly haven't made a vcd (in an easy way) in ages. I know that Roxio easy CD creator (or whatever it is called now) could do it. Nero burning ROM can do it as well but you may need to download an update from www.nero.com
If you do have a dvd writer, then you should have at least recieved one application on a disc which can do this, unless the DVD- writer came with an OEM PC. It might be cyberlink Power Producer 2 or ULEAD DVD factory, but htere should be one.
You can find free software to make dvd's/vcd's at http://www.doom9.net/ click on downloads and browse to the VCD section. Click the text next to the VCD tools heading to see all the applications. It might also be worth a try to check out the guides there too. the free software is ussually difficult to use, especially tmpegenc(it works well for VCD;s)
if you still struggling try joining the afterdawn forums
http://forums.afterdawn.com/
these guy do these things every day, and probably know of better software.
On a sad note, if your video camera captures to quicktime mov format or windows media video, then you will have to convert it to avi or mpeg first as most programs don't support writing to VCD/DVD straight from a wmv or quicktime file.
I really hope you get it right.
EDIT: your dvd's firmware understands how to interpret jpeg files, that's why you can see them using your dvd player. Click on my name and send me a message. we can take it futher from there if you are still strugling. Report It
Try to play it on your computer What format is the video in? have you finalised the CD Well, there's two possibilities and as I have never combined pictures and videos on the same CD but I do know what part of your problem is. You can't just drag and drop a movie over to a CDR or CDRW disc and expect it to play on any DVD player. You need to use Roxio or Nero to create a VCD (video CD) that will play on some older, and most newer DVD players but even then it will not be compatible with 100% of the DVD players out there. You'll have to look in you DVD players manual to see if it supports VCDs.
Now that being said, you're going to have to use a new CD to attempt to create one in the correct format. Like I said I've never created a CD with pictures and movies on it so I don't know if putting a video on there with pictures will work (well).
Of course I've never bothered to create a VCD either as every single one of my computers (save for the laptops) have DVD burners. That makes three computers that have at least one DVDRW drive (my gaming rig has dual DVDRW dual layer drives). Heck, I don't even know if I have any CD media lying around here anymore. |
