DVD Burning Woes! Please help!

CUP OF TEAAA! · 03-07-2010, 11:44

ok so with toy story 3 coming out soon, i wanted to download toy story 1 and 2 and then burn to dvd. i downloaded them and burned them but they wont play on my dvd player! please give me advice! they play in windows media player, i think it is .wpl

please use easy language, im a beginner in technology!!!

chrisjr · 03-07-2010, 11:56

you burned them as data files. many DVD players can play certain formats of data file in addition to normal DVD Video files (which is not the same as a data file containing video information, just to add to the confusion

).

I suspect the file you've downloaded is in a format your DVD player does not recognise. What you need to do is convert it to a format the DVD player does recognise. Which can be a bit of a nightmare for the inexperienced.

If you are not that experienced in video editing and such like on the PC then perhaps something like this

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/roxio-...75123-pdt.html

would be suitable? It should let you burn your file to disk in a format you player can handle.

Oh and to keep the legal eagles happy I assume we are talking legitimate paid for downloads with full copyright permission to burn to disk?

flagpole · 03-07-2010, 11:57

leaving aside the legality, morality, and the fact that this is in the wrong forum......

they are probably .avi files using an xvid codec. most dvd players can not handle these formats. although some labelled DivX can.

anyway you need a program to convert them to regular dvd format:
http://www.dvdflick.net/
is amongst the best and also free.

install it, run it, drag in the films. it will be fine to put them both on one disk. and convert.

it will take a while, depending on your computer, anything up to the length of the movie.

if you have problems ask in the computing and networking forum

neo_wales · 03-07-2010, 12:26

Another vote for DVDFlick but use 2 DVD's.

prking · 03-07-2010, 13:03

The .wpl files which you have downloaded are playlist files. They tell Windows Media Player where to locate the actual files which contain the media.

grahamlthompson · 03-07-2010, 19:41

Put a DVD in your PC's drive and open file explorer.

You will find two folders Video_TS and Audio_TS which is empty.

Open the Video_TS folder you will find files with the following extensions .VOB these contain the video and audio mpeg2 data, .IFO these contain the navigation data a DVD requires to work and .BAK files which provide a degree of back up to cover read errors. A DVD player needs this file structure to play as a standard DVD. A DVD authoring programme is required to create this from a video file (Google IMGBURN) . Commercial DVDS have an extra scrambling capabilty known as CSS if you want to transfer these to a hdd you have to remove CSS. (A process that you can't discuss in a public forum simply because it's illegal)

hotdiggity1 · 03-07-2010, 20:40

When the Blurays of both films were released there was an offer on that enabled buyers from Amazon to get the films for £6 each which included the Bluray of the movie together with a dvd of it and hours of extras too

Why would anyone want to waste time illegally downloading them?

figrin_dan · 03-07-2010, 20:58

I know, I now have four toy stories on dvd that I don't need (2 from the blu and the ultimate toy box) I can't give them away!

neo_wales · 04-07-2010, 15:10

Quote:

Originally Posted by grahamlthompson

Put a DVD in your PC's drive and open file explorer.

You will find two folders Video_TS and Audio_TS which is empty.

Open the Video_TS folder you will find files with the following extensions .VOB these contain the video and audio mpeg2 data, .IFO these contain the navigation data a DVD requires to work and .BAK files which provide a degree of back up to cover read errors. A DVD player needs this file structure to play as a standard DVD. A DVD authoring programme is required to create this from a video file (Google IMGBURN) . Commercial DVDS have an extra scrambling capabilty known as CSS if you want to transfer these to a hdd you have to remove CSS. (A process that you can't discuss in a public forum simply because it's illegal)

DVD Shrink (free programme) will rip a DVD to you hard drive and DVDDecrypter does the same and removes CSS.

03-07-2010, 11:44	#1
CUP OF TEAAA! Forum Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: UK Posts: 4,063	DVD Burning Woes! Please help! ok so with toy story 3 coming out soon, i wanted to download toy story 1 and 2 and then burn to dvd. i downloaded them and burned them but they wont play on my dvd player! please give me advice! they play in windows media player, i think it is .wpl please use easy language, im a beginner in technology!!!

03-07-2010, 11:56	#2
chrisjr Forum Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Reading Posts: 27,916	you burned them as data files. many DVD players can play certain formats of data file in addition to normal DVD Video files (which is not the same as a data file containing video information, just to add to the confusion ). I suspect the file you've downloaded is in a format your DVD player does not recognise. What you need to do is convert it to a format the DVD player does recognise. Which can be a bit of a nightmare for the inexperienced. If you are not that experienced in video editing and such like on the PC then perhaps something like this http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/roxio-...75123-pdt.html would be suitable? It should let you burn your file to disk in a format you player can handle. Oh and to keep the legal eagles happy I assume we are talking legitimate paid for downloads with full copyright permission to burn to disk?

03-07-2010, 11:57	#3
flagpole Inactive Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 43,524	leaving aside the legality, morality, and the fact that this is in the wrong forum...... they are probably .avi files using an xvid codec. most dvd players can not handle these formats. although some labelled DivX can. anyway you need a program to convert them to regular dvd format: http://www.dvdflick.net/ is amongst the best and also free. install it, run it, drag in the films. it will be fine to put them both on one disk. and convert. it will take a while, depending on your computer, anything up to the length of the movie. if you have problems ask in the computing and networking forum

03-07-2010, 12:26	#4
neo_wales Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: South Wales/Gran Canaria Posts: 8,298	Another vote for DVDFlick but use 2 DVD's.

03-07-2010, 13:03	#5
prking Forum Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Weston-super-Mare Posts: 9,167	The .wpl files which you have downloaded are playlist files. They tell Windows Media Player where to locate the actual files which contain the media.

03-07-2010, 19:41	#6
grahamlthompson Forum Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Redditch Worcs Posts: 17,293	Put a DVD in your PC's drive and open file explorer. You will find two folders Video_TS and Audio_TS which is empty. Open the Video_TS folder you will find files with the following extensions .VOB these contain the video and audio mpeg2 data, .IFO these contain the navigation data a DVD requires to work and .BAK files which provide a degree of back up to cover read errors. A DVD player needs this file structure to play as a standard DVD. A DVD authoring programme is required to create this from a video file (Google IMGBURN) . Commercial DVDS have an extra scrambling capabilty known as CSS if you want to transfer these to a hdd you have to remove CSS. (A process that you can't discuss in a public forum simply because it's illegal)

03-07-2010, 20:40	#7
hotdiggity1 Inactive Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 1,378	When the Blurays of both films were released there was an offer on that enabled buyers from Amazon to get the films for £6 each which included the Bluray of the movie together with a dvd of it and hours of extras too Why would anyone want to waste time illegally downloading them?

03-07-2010, 20:58	#8
figrin_dan Forum Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1,395	I know, I now have four toy stories on dvd that I don't need (2 from the blu and the ultimate toy box) I can't give them away!

04-07-2010, 15:10	#9
neo_wales Forum Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: South Wales/Gran Canaria Posts: 8,298	Quote: Originally Posted by grahamlthompson Put a DVD in your PC's drive and open file explorer. You will find two folders Video_TS and Audio_TS which is empty. Open the Video_TS folder you will find files with the following extensions .VOB these contain the video and audio mpeg2 data, .IFO these contain the navigation data a DVD requires to work and .BAK files which provide a degree of back up to cover read errors. A DVD player needs this file structure to play as a standard DVD. A DVD authoring programme is required to create this from a video file (Google IMGBURN) . Commercial DVDS have an extra scrambling capabilty known as CSS if you want to transfer these to a hdd you have to remove CSS. (A process that you can't discuss in a public forum simply because it's illegal) DVD Shrink (free programme) will rip a DVD to you hard drive and DVDDecrypter does the same and removes CSS.

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