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burned dvd won’t play in windows media player
I’m new to Vegas 7 and DVDA.
I created a project in Vegas, editted it, rendered it as both the mpg and the ac3 (per the recommendation of a post here). Then I went to DVDA and made a DVD of the project.
It plays great on my DVD player. But, when I put that DVD into my pc and try to bring it up in Windows media player, after a little while of “loading”, it starts to play. But the screen is black and silent. Oddly enough, WMP “knows” it’s 62 minutes long.
I thought maybe I didn’t finalize the DVD. I looked through DVDA help and the manual, couldn’t find anywhere where that’s addressed. So I tried to simply write another file to the DVD through NERO, thinking that, if it isn’t finalized, the other file would write. NERO told me the disc is unwritable. So I assume it’s finalized.
I’d like to know what to do to make it so it works on both the DVD player and WMP. The idea is, if I give copies of home movies to my parents, they can play it on their PC.
What could I have done wrong here? Any help is appreciated.
I’m running XP, SP2
Vegas 7
DVDA 4 -
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You didn’t do anything wrong. Previous versions of windows media player (I think Vista can play them?) can not play DVD’s natively. However, they should be able to download VLC and play it using that piece of software just fine. Your Nero Showtime player should play it just fine as well.
Note: if they are going to be playing it on a computer, you may want to make sure your footage is deinterlaced, especially if they are going to watch this on an LCD hooked up to a computer.
j razz
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