Hey all I don't even know if I'm in the right spot or not, but I do know generally these boards are much more informative than the customer support lines.
I just recently purchase a sony handycam and got the movie burned onto a disk and the only thing I can watch it on in the house is my computer which it is already stored on. I have 3 different brands of dvd players and none of them recognize the disk. Can anyone out there help with a suggestion?
My guess is that your recorder records in the VR format, as opposed to creating VOB files. VR format video files will have the extension .VRO.
These are MPEG-2 files and can easily be converted into fully-compliant DVDs by simply running them through an authoring program. SUPER, Ulead MovieFactory and Womble MPEG Video Wizard will handle this. The only thing you might want to do is add chapter marks and maybe a menu. The nice thing about Womble is that it will not try to re-encode the file, which will cause quality loss and take hours, but, rather, will write a proper DVD to your hard disk in about 10 minutes, which can then be burned to DVD. SUPER and also Ulead, at least some older versions, required a bit of fidgeting with bitrates and framerates i.e. you have to make sure you do not change anything. There are also lots of other authoring programs. SUPER
-Do you believe you own your computer and shouldn't be told what you can run and do? Then say *NO* to Microsoft Vista!
-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
