What format to use...???

[Winton Vandepeer]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 1:00 AM, Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> wrote:

>  On 05/16/2010 10:09 AM, Michel Racic wrote:
>
> Hi Larry
>
> From my past experience it's possible that your problem doesn't have
> to do with wrong conversion but with your DVD player.
> I know that some DVD players (most expensive ones) have problems with
> self burned DVD's (doesn't mather if its a bit copy of an original or
> a self made dvd).
> I bought a very cheap United DVD player (<50$) and it plays almost
> every disk even if it has lots of scratches on but my expensive home
> cinema system doesn't play all of my DVD's.
>
> Regards Michel
>
> 2010/5/16 Larry Shields <larryesu at charter.net> <larryesu at charter.net>:
>
>
>  On 05/15/2010 09:22 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
>
> On 16/05/10 01:37, Christoph Bier wrote:
>
>
> Larry Shields schrieb am 15.05.2010 14:30:
>
>
>
>
> *I would like to know what format to use after downloading a movie...I
> have burned it to a dvd, it plays well on the pc, but not at all when I
> tried to watch it on TV...
>
> I know there are many formats one can use, but which one would be the
> best to use...
>
> Also which video converter is the best for this...???
>
>
>
> You do not need to care about formats. Just use DeVeDe for creation
> of video DVD.
>
> HTH
>
> Best
> Christoph
>
>
>
> Neat. Thanks for this. Now added to my audio/video tools library.
>
> BC
>
>
>
> Ok, well so far I have not been able to get any converted movies to work on
> my dvd player for TV...I had bought DVD+RW's but a fellow who worked where i
> purchased them told me that, that was my problem...I needed to use DVD+R for
> it to work...Not sure why that should make any difference, but it still does
> not work for me...
>
> I did view a DVD movies properties, and it was showing .vob for the
> extension so that is what I am thinking that they should be converted to
> from .avi to .vob...???
>
> So by any chance has anyone out there ran into this problem, or have
> downloaded a movie off of the internet, made a DVD of it, and it worked,
> being able to watch it using a dvd player & TV...For me I can watch the dvd
> that I have created on my pc, but I do not like to watch a movie on a 19"
> screen...
>
> So if anyone can help me out here on this one I'd appreciate it very much...
> ;-)
>
> Thanks Larry
>
>
>
>
>     *Hello Michel,
>
> Well I have been thinking that too just might be the problem, but I do have
> two other dvd players, so I will try them out, just maybe one will work...
>
> Thanks for the reply... ;-)
>
> Larry*
>
> Hi,
 I have had a similar problem
using devede, solved it by in "menu Options" ticking  " Jump to first title
at startup"
in the Disk Startup Options. My dvd player will not play anything made with
devede unless I do this.
Hope this helps.
Take care
Winton
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