Burning Software dilema

I make a lot of home movies and had always used Roxio and recently had to purchase another (what I call Generic) pc because my kids managed to ruin my other techy one.

Anyway, Now that I'm burning my home movies onto a dvd using the Windows burning tool I notice that it's for some reason not playing back on my dvd player.

I also tried using the NTI cd/dvd maker-7 and Acer Emode and same thing happens... what does Roxio do that these others wont?

I'm not at all computer savvy, just barely get by so I'm confused as to why I was able to make hundreds of dvd's and now all of a sudden nothing seems to be playing back.

Someone please help me figure this out.

 

Roxio was probably "authoring" the movies to DVD. This entails converting the movie to a DVD compliant format (usually MPEG4), creating the DVD compliant structure, and then burning all this to the disc. I'm not sure what format the movie files start out as, but you can probably use DVD Flick to author the DVDs. It will convert most video formats to standard DVD compliance, create the structures, and burn it to a DVD for playback in your home player, and it does all this for FREE!!! Best of all, it's available right here at Major Geeks: http://www.majorgeeks.com/DVD_Flick_d5530.html and here's a link to the DVD Flick how-to guide in Adobe PDF format: http://www.dvdflick.net/guide.php I've been using DVD Flick for a long time, and NEVER had a bad disc unless the source file was somehow messed up. Try it, you'll like it.

 

The Windows burning tool formats into udf. I have no clue wt h3ll that means.

I use dvd shrink to compress the files if they're too large... I've lost all hope so far, I'll try dvd flick and see if I'll get one good disc out of the 50 lol... I've already trashed 80% of the lot.

Oh well, we'll see how this goes... maybe I just got comfortable with Roxio now all this seems soooooo complicated.

Thanks!

 

.udf stands for Universal Disk Format and it's an image type used as a standard for optical storage (like CD or DVD drives). You should be able to burn them with ImgBurn; a free utility for burning images (disk images, not visual images like pictures and what not) to CD or DVD. Now that I know these are .udf files, there are many routes to take to successfully burn these files. I don't think DVD Flick will work in this situation. Try ImgBurn http://www.majorgeeks.com/ImgBurn_d4870.html It's built into DVDFlick, so if DVDFlick is already installed, go to C:\Program Files\DVD Flick\imgburn and launch the file imgburn.exe

 

Thanks for responding... I know I must sound like a nut, and most would tell me to just give it up and stick to vhs lol....

I am really tearing my hair out and the imgburn 'warnings' (If you don't know what you're doing, read some guides!) aren't helping lmao.

Let's assume that windows does that to ensure that the disc is viewed on any operating system... is there a way to change the settings so that it's burned on in a format that most players will recognize?