how come I can burn a video to dvd-r or dvd+ and I can play it back them back on my laptop but I cannot play?
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some home-burned disks do not play well in certean players. no clue why
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Yes you have a DVD drive but you may not have the software installed to play the game that you wish to play. Read the booklet and see if there is a site where you can download the software it is usually free.
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If it's not a DVD+RW or DVD-RW, You can't re-use it.  If you have a DVD recorder, check out the owners manual.  For the computer, use Nero, Roxio Easy DVD, or any kind of burning software.
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This is a CD burner/DVD reader combo drive.  You can burn CDR and CDRW.  You can even reading DVD.  But you cannot burn DVD.  Otherwise it will say DVD+-R and/or DVD+-RW.  It didn't say either so it is likely that you will not be able to burn DVD.  You can forget about it.  Even with Nero you will not be able to burn DVD.  If you can burn DVD with this drive, there must be something wrong with the label or they put the drive in a wrong box and sold it to you so you are very lucky but I don't think anyone can be that lucky so you probably will not be able to burn DVD.  I hope that I made it clear to you.
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You need to get a burning software like Nero or CloneDVD to burn that to a DVD so you can watch it on any DVD player.\n\n\nUpdated:\nIf you have Nero, then use Nero's Burn a DVD Video feature and drag those files and folders exactly as is into the program.  Read the instruction for more details.
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A couple things:\nIs the software you're using updated? Check the help files to see how to update your software.\n\nAre you playing a DVD or just a video clip file? You might want to check if the DVD is dirty or if the video clip was badly made. You might want to check your DVD rom drive if its dusty or so.
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It is more likely your video card is old. Older video card can't play DVD on computer. If this is the case, then you have to get a newer video card.
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The newer versions of the Windows Media Player can't play DVD's believe it or not because they don't come with the codecs needed.\n\nGo to this web page and download Media Player Classic v.6.4.9.0 (it's free) this program will play DVD's\n\nhttp://www.free-codecs.com/Media_Player_Classic_download.htm
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it sounds like the DVD burning software you had before has not yet been re-installed.\n\nInstall a DVD Burning program, then try it.
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You need to install a DVD codec. Most DVD-ROMs include software to playback DVDs, but if yours doesn't, you can get VLC, found at http://www.videolan.org/vlc/\nThis is a great open source DVD/multimedia player, which can play DVDs without a codec. \nIf you want to play DVDs natively in Windows Media Player or other applications, you'll have to get a full-fledged DVD decoder, which costs money. The DVD corporations charge a licensing fee to use their decoder, so you have to pay. There really isn't one best decoder out there, but I've had good success with WinDVD and PowerDVD. Do a search for either and you should be able to find one that will work.
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I use AVS Video Converter.  It can covert most formats of video files to a DVD player compatable one.  I don't know how much it costs (I didn't get mine one of the most legal ways)\n\n\n*cough*try downloading it off Ares or LimeWire.  Make sure you get a serial number with it*cough*
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First you need to convert them to the standard DVD formats (Check on the web for more) \nAfter you have converted them you need to check if the software package you have supports burning DVD into all formats.\n\nAfter you have done all this you can then burn them them to DVD.
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Yeah, first you'll know by looking on your computer ROM cover, It'll say "DVD-RW" if you see this there then you can burn but if it say CD-RW then you can only burn cd and not dvd. Knowing what entension your video can play, first look at your video player manua if you still have it, you'll see all kind of format your video support, then you'll know which format to use and yeah you can freeware to convert them, Nero software can also burn movie that you can play on most DVD player so if you have Nero software you can use it and choose the DVD option and let it do the rest.\ngood luck.
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I don't think windows media player can burn DVD's
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You must be trying DVDs in your CD Rom or VCDs in your DVD player. Your information is not complete.\n\nIt only happens when your computer cannot read the format.
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A lot of DVD players will not add .avi files to burn DVDs. Nero will. I suggest you find a way to get it.
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You CAN burn DVD's, including copyrighted and protected movies. First of all of course you know in order to do this you would need a DVD player built into your computer (or an external), a DVD burner and software capable of doing this. Well, software bundled with most DVD Burners isnt really satisfactory anymore for burning DVD's. If you get a piece of software called DVD Shrink. DVD Shrink is freeware, strips away all blocking and protection and allows you to burn the tnire DVD including extras etc ot just burn the movie or whatever you want. It works with all DVD Burners. You can find it here:  http://www.dvdshrink.org/what.html