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DVD burning - CD/DVD Player option - Not playing as a DVD

Anonymous
2022-07-16T16:13:02+00:00

I've been trying to create a DVD with some mp4 music videos on, so I inserted a blank DVD-R and when I got the "How do you want to use this disc?" prompt, I selected the "With CD/DVD Player" option. I then drag & drop the mp4 files and click on "Finish burning". It burns them all to the disc just fine & ejects it on completion. However, when I put it back into the computer, it doesn't Auto Play & just displays the files like a drive still, it won't play in any DVD players either. I tried a few DVDs, but all with the same result. I've done this before with no troubles, so what is going wrong with this one?

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-07-17T09:16:24+00:00

    Hi Greg! Thanks for the reply & links, but they're all related to creating a DVD correctly and/or with 3rd party software & I know how to do that. I've burnt hundreds of CDs/DVDs using the built-in burning tool. The problem is that the Burn to Disc function within Win10 is not functioning correctly. It gives the option to burn as a drive or mastered as a CD/DVD. I selected the latter & although it burns the files to the disc, isn't burning them in a way that is readable by DVD players. It just displays them like normal files, even though I chose the option to make it compatible with playing in a DVD player. I think it's the file type that it doesn't like, but Win10 says it makes it run on a DVD Player when it doesn't. I believe I need to convert all of the videos from mp4 to mpeg-1/2 or vob type before the DVD Player will play them?

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  2. Craig Long 17,885 Reputation points
    2022-07-17T18:28:20+00:00

    DVD players can't play high-definition videos, to my knowledge. So that's why formating the DVD using the first method (as a flash drive) is preferable since it allows you to copy and play the file in its original quality, only on a computer though. The video may buffer quite a bit (the read speed of a DVD is extremely slow) but you can get the original HD quality from the video file.

    CD/DVD technology is quite old, in my opinion, and only good for physically giving files to someone since the disk is so cheap.

    Blu-ray is the more advanced technology for those who like optical disks.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-17T16:16:27+00:00

    Hello again -

    You said you already know how to burn the DVD, but did you read the tutorials I gave you because they explain you may need a specialized burning tool to make the DVD play, and how to convert the MP4's to a format to burn them properly.

    I spent quite a bit of time researching this for you to give you everything you'd need to do this. Won't you take the time to read them to learn how to do this?

    This is an interactive process. I give steps to perform, you do each one and then report back results until something works, so I know what to suggest next. If you need help performing any step, just ask back. But please do not skip any steps. We often find out the skipped step is the fix.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-16T17:03:51+00:00

    Hi Pickles. I'm Greg, 10 years awarded Windows MVP, here to help you.

    Try these methods for burning MP4's to a music DVD that autoplays:

    https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-burn-a-DVD-so-th...

    https://www.wikihow.com/Burn-MP4-to-DVD

    https://how-to.fandom.com/wiki/How_to_burn_MP4_...

    https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-burn-...

    https://www.freemake.com/how_to/how_to_convert_...

    Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the results you post back I may have other suggestions if necessary.

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