NERDS NEEDED! DVD burn

[NhustlaR 10+ year member]

I'm tryin to get some music vids so I can play them on the in-dash, but they wont work right.

They are all MPEG files. Is there something special I should be doing to them so they will play on the in-dash?

Thanks for any/all information //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

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[saywhat? 5,000+ posts]

try and make the WMV files some how.

 

[NhustlaR 10+ year member]

helllp me

 

[pjm2211 10+ year member]

you need a dvd creator program. if you have nero, or roxio with dvd capabilities, you can burn to a DVD format, and then it will play in your dvd player. I personally use the roxio, and it has a program called dvd builder. works great.

 

[mike75356 10+ year member]

I have nero and it works very well thats what i would suggest. Lmao at the nerds needed

 

[uicballin22 10+ year member]

You'll need a DVD burner and DVD-Rs....I use a program called Blaze Media Pro...it converts AVI and MPEG files to DVD format and burns them on to DVD to play in my In-dash

 

[uicballin22 10+ year member]

btw....what indash do you got?

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

DVD+Rs > DVD-Rs

for most uses yes... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif... but it's not that simple... in anycase all newer DVD burners (computer ones, not set top) do both... so you can buy a 10pack of each and see which one works best for your HU

 

[wilzyx 5,000+ posts]

Or, if you actually know what you're doing, DVD+Rs are always superior ...

why? im curious cuz i looked it up on the internet before i decided on which ones to buy and the play rates where each like 95% and above that it would work. so i just bought some verbatim dvd-r's

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

You can change the format of DVD+Rs with a burner capable of doing so ... DVD-ROM discs are compatible with 100% of all DVD players ... So, by changing the format of your DVD+R disc to DVD-ROM, it then becomes 100% compatible ...

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/eyebrow.gif.fe2c18d8720fe8c7eaed347b21ea05a5.gif really.... I've never heard of this but then again I haven't looked into it... that would be nice though I'll have to see if my NEC can do this......

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

DVD+R's are by far the more robust disk in any case... it's more of a dual purpose disk than the video minded -R... I'd try to stick with +R's if you can...

 

[PatFitz9 10+ year member]

is it just your indash? my friend has an eclipse indash and some DVDs just don't like to work with it. see if the owners manual has a list of formats that are playable, then google search for an MPEG to whatever converter.

 

[yacob.naif 10+ year member]

I disagree! I'm a DVD-R fan!

DVD+R was designed as a recordable format, and was a redesign of dvd-standards to allow more error recovery when burning the discs. a DVD-R has to be burned near perfectly in order to work correctly, but as far as i'm concerned, if something's worth doing, it's worth doing perfectly.

If you want the best compatability with standalone dvd-players, playstation 2's, early version xbox's (newer ones play +r's fine) and basically anything besides a pc, -r's going to be the way to go.

Think, if when cd-recorders first came out, if instead of making cd-recorders accurate enough to burn cd's that would play on cd-players that were realeased before the cd-r's, they just made a whole new format of cd, called cd+r, which just allowed sloppy cd-recorders to 're'burn bits of data that it screwed up, rather than starting all over. That's what a dvd+r essentially is, that's why dvd-players that aren't specifically trained to 'skip' over the bad bits of data wont play them, and that's why they're not compatable on older dvd-players, and that's why they'll never be as compatable as dvd-r's.

-R for LIIIIIFFFFEEEEE!! I want to know that every bit of data on my disc is correct! DVD+R is just a product of america's increasing ADD and lack of patience to burn a dvd at slower speeds, correctly!!!

Oh, and also, that's why when you burn a 4.7g dvd+r, they only give you about 4.4g of actual storage space, is because they're accounting for all of the mistakes it's gonna make all over your nice new disc!

 

[NhustlaR 10+ year member]

I have a jensen 9410...

But anyways, I dont need a dvd burner to get the music vids to play....I have a regular cd-r and it plays vids. Of course, it doesnt hold many of them, but there is like 9 or 10 videos on it, I just dont know what my friend did to make them work(and neither does he)

Any way to burn them onto a regular cd-r?

 

[NhustlaR 10+ year member]

Edit, I just got my cd out of my car and checked the properties, theyre MOVIE FILE(mpeg)

so, i guess i dont have to convert the new ones to anything, but i still dont know how to burn them so they will play on my in-dash. any more help is appreciated