copying movies to cd,help!

[fergus8]

i have downloaded 300 and was trying to burn it to a cd.
the burning worked ok, as i tested it on the laptop, but when i try any other dvd player it dosnt read the cd. help!

[Ironside]

cd or dvd?

[fergus8]

the disc's are philips cd-r, 700mb,80 mins,52x speed

[Ironside]

ok did you finalise the buring to the disc?

or is it just a phantom waiting to be burnt?

if its a phantom you will see the files on the computer you made the file but not on any other pc

there should bea button on the left hand panel (when you open the disc) that says something like burn these files now

[wader leg]

Dvd players aren't usually capable of playing movies burned to cd.
Try burning it to a dvd-r disc instead of cd-r.

[fergus8]

nice one, i had a sneaky feeling it was that as i typed the response to ironside

[fergus8]

ok i got dvd-r disc's

tried to burn a movie, didnt work, thought i needed a specific dvd burner

downloaded cheetah dvd burner, seemed to burn ok, but will not work on dvd player's (3)

any ideas??

[AdamM]

wow, you managed to find a way of legally buying this film already. where's that?

[Ironside]

legalfilmdownloadnowintheuk.com

[lazaroonie]

you have probably downloaded a avi or divx file, which will play the movie fine on your computer, but most DVD players wont.

A proper DVD movie disc has ISO files on it, you need some piece of software which can convert from AVI to ISO, then burn these files to the disc.

google is your friend.

[fergus8]

outstanding

[fergus8]

wow, you managed to find a way of legally buying this film already. where's that?

legalfilmdownloadnowintheuk.com

actually it was www.dryupandburst.com

[fergus8]

downloaded a converter but its no 5 minute job,goes through the film in real time changing each scene
4 hour film four hour conversion.

and does it request another disc when its half way through, as the film is longer than the disc space

[lazaroonie]

yup, that sounds about right.

if you are at all bothered about quality you should make sure the 2-pass conversion is switched on.