Re: Can't burn recorded tv to DVD!

Does anybody know if it is possible to burn recorded TV onto a dvd-RW using
Media Centre Edition 2005?

When I attempt to burn a recorded tv program MCE tells me that the file type
I am trying to burn is not supported!

I want to burn to a dvd-rw because I want to be able to re-use it.

Thanks,
Justin

"Gene E. Bloch" wrote:

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Yes I do have the Video dvd option. I am trying to burn a Video
DVD which
you
can put into a dvd player and watch on your tv.

Does anybody know why Media Centre won't let me burn recorded TV
onto a dvd-rw??



"Eric Baines" wrote:

Are you trying to burn to back the file up (data DVD) or so you
can
watch it
on a standalong DVD Player (video DVD)? If the latter, do you
have the
Video
DVD option?

(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/using/DVD/burntvto
d
vd.mspx)

If you haven't got the Video DVD option, you need to google for
Sonicencoders.MSI and install it.

Persnoally, I'd download the trial of Nero 7 and use that, and
if you
find
it helps you do what you want to do, I'd buy it.




"Justin" wrote:

Hi,
When I try to burn a recorded tv program onto dvd, Windows
media
centre has
a message saying the the file type is not supported. Does
this mean
that I
can not burn recorded tv onto DVD?

I have a dvd burner which supports dvd+-RW and I was using a
dvd-rw.

Thanks,
Justin

A DVD-RW has to be formatted just as you would a floppy or hard
drive. The process is called UDF formatting and there are several
different types. For instance Nero uses a program called InCD to
UDF format a RW disk and to view that disk on another computer it
to has to have InCD installed. If you take that disk and try to
view it on a system that has Roxio Adaptec UDF software on it or
no UDF packet writing software at all, the disk will appear blank.
Read Write DVD's are a storage media you can use much like a hard
drive, with it you can erase, drag and drop, overwrite existing
files, re-format etc.
For media playback you should use + or - R DVD's not + or - RW
DVD's.

No, that's only true if you're trying to use a DVD-+RW like a (very
large) floppy or another hard drive, e.g., for drag and drop file
copying (or other Windows Explorer type file copying operations) on
the fly.

For making "regular" DVDs, either data or videos, i.e., for burning,
you just put them into the drive and burn them exactly like a DVD-
+R.

There is one exception: if the RW disc has been used before. Then it
has to be erased before being burned as a DVD.

I burn DVD RWs as above occasionally without any problems, so I know
it should work.

Which means I have no idea what's causing the OP's problem.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) ... letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

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