I am trying to create a DVD for use on home player....
.. I have never done this before I bought a Samsung DVD writer with Nero Essentials included... and just downloaded DVDStyler and DVD Shrink to create a iso image compressed to fit a DVD-R 4.7GB disc.
I burned the iso image to a DVD via Nero Essentials 8.0...
.. it plays great on my PC... but on one DVD player I get no sound.. just picture (quality is good) and on another DVD player i get an error (saying Incorrect Disc)...
Try DVD Flick to convert the avi to dvd and Imgburn to burn the VIDEO_TS folder you get from Flick. They are both free. There are guides for using Flick and Imgburn. Just search.
The only thing you really need to set here is the Target size under the General tab, and the Target format, and Encoding profile under the Video tab.
For Target Size, choose the size of the disc you will be burning your project onto. Usually the default setting of DVD-5 (4.3 Gb) will be fine, but if you wanted to use a dual layer disc or any other common format, you can select that as well.
For Target Format, you must choose which format is used on the standalone DVD Player you will be watching the DVD on. For most Europe, Asian, African and Oceanic countries this should be set to PAL, for most American countries to NTSC. Some DVD Players support both formats, in which case you should select the Mixed format. When using the Mixed format each separate title will be determined to be either PAL or NTSC, and encoded as such.
For Encoding Profile, you must make a trade-off between the time it will take to encode the DVD, or the quality thereof. Generally Fast offers reasonable image quality, the difference between Normal and Best is almost unnoticeable. Though if you are going to make a DVD that is near or over 3 hours in length, it is not recommended to choose Fast but Normal or Best instead or the image quality will suffer.
