I have made a movie and saved it to my computer

My problem is that I cannot copy to a DVD that will play on my DVD player
(works with DVD+RW or DVD TV. However it will play on my computer. It is a
present for my daughter's 40th birthday with old slides scanned and
transferred from another system, photos , music and comments. I thought I was
doing ok until I tried to play it on the above. My daughter has Vista on her
computer and mine is XP Will she be able to play it on her computer or better
still how can I get it to play on her player. Any help would be appreciated
but please talk in layman's terms- Not thick but terminology does confuse.

Big_Al
Wed Jun 18 14:46:01 PDT 2008

Carol Anne wrote:
> My problem is that I cannot copy to a DVD that will play on my DVD player
> (works with DVD+RW or DVD TV. However it will play on my computer. It is a
> present for my daughter's 40th birthday with old slides scanned and
> transferred from another system, photos , music and comments. I thought I was
> doing ok until I tried to play it on the above. My daughter has Vista on her
> computer and mine is XP Will she be able to play it on her computer or better
> still how can I get it to play on her player. Any help would be appreciated
> but please talk in layman's terms- Not thick but terminology does confuse.

Not every DVD player in the world will play DVD's created on a PC. Its
not a gimmie.
I took DVD's to the store and shopped and found a good bit of them
don't. Oddly enough the cheap 19$ one my daughter bought worked better
than my 159$ one. Who'd guess.
Still its a gamble, and some write on the box that they support dvd-r
dvd+r etc. I'd look for that first, but again, its a gamble on older
dvd's for sure.

Every PC should be able to play it if you have a DVD player. I find
VLC video Lan a pretty good freeware program if all else fails.

Limeia
Fri Jun 20 14:13:02 PDT 2008

I have also come to this same problem. I had my movie done in Jpeg format,
so now I have switched all my pictures over to bitmaps and tried a sample cd
of about 10 pictures, transisions and overlays. Whoo Hoo - it burned o.k.
but now I cannot view it on my dvd player and it's not a real old one. It
says it cannot read bitmaps. Is it just the dvd player?

"Big_Al" wrote:

> Carol Anne wrote:
> > My problem is that I cannot copy to a DVD that will play on my DVD player
> > (works with DVD+RW or DVD TV. However it will play on my computer. It is a
> > present for my daughter's 40th birthday with old slides scanned and
> > transferred from another system, photos , music and comments. I thought I was
> > doing ok until I tried to play it on the above. My daughter has Vista on her
> > computer and mine is XP Will she be able to play it on her computer or better
> > still how can I get it to play on her player. Any help would be appreciated
> > but please talk in layman's terms- Not thick but terminology does confuse.
>
> Not every DVD player in the world will play DVD's created on a PC. Its
> not a gimmie.
> I took DVD's to the store and shopped and found a good bit of them
> don't. Oddly enough the cheap 19$ one my daughter bought worked better
> than my 159$ one. Who'd guess.
> Still its a gamble, and some write on the box that they support dvd-r
> dvd+r etc. I'd look for that first, but again, its a gamble on older
> dvd's for sure.
>
> Every PC should be able to play it if you have a DVD player. I find
> VLC video Lan a pretty good freeware program if all else fails.
>

Big_Al
Fri Jun 20 14:30:03 PDT 2008

Limeia wrote:
> I have also come to this same problem. I had my movie done in Jpeg format,
> so now I have switched all my pictures over to bitmaps and tried a sample cd
> of about 10 pictures, transisions and overlays. Whoo Hoo - it burned o.k.
> but now I cannot view it on my dvd player and it's not a real old one. It
> says it cannot read bitmaps. Is it just the dvd player?
>
> "Big_Al" wrote:
>
>> Carol Anne wrote:
>>> My problem is that I cannot copy to a DVD that will play on my DVD player
>>> (works with DVD+RW or DVD TV. However it will play on my computer. It is a
>>> present for my daughter's 40th birthday with old slides scanned and
>>> transferred from another system, photos , music and comments. I thought I was
>>> doing ok until I tried to play it on the above. My daughter has Vista on her
>>> computer and mine is XP Will she be able to play it on her computer or better
>>> still how can I get it to play on her player. Any help would be appreciated
>>> but please talk in layman's terms- Not thick but terminology does confuse.
>> Not every DVD player in the world will play DVD's created on a PC. Its
>> not a gimmie.
>> I took DVD's to the store and shopped and found a good bit of them
>> don't. Oddly enough the cheap 19$ one my daughter bought worked better
>> than my 159$ one. Who'd guess.
>> Still its a gamble, and some write on the box that they support dvd-r
>> dvd+r etc. I'd look for that first, but again, its a gamble on older
>> dvd's for sure.
>>
>> Every PC should be able to play it if you have a DVD player. I find
>> VLC video Lan a pretty good freeware program if all else fails.
>>
I guess the question is, is it a DVD. If you explore the DVD do you
have two folders AUDIO and VIDEO (or something close, I don't have one
handy to look at). And in the video folder there are files like .VOB
files.

If not then this is not a DVD. It may be burned to a DVD but it's not a
DVD. WMM is not making a DVD then. I've never used WMM personally.
I found it limited and got a copy or Magix Movie Maker and it was a bit
more full featured.