Looking for light dvd maker

Need a light dvd maker to burn my windows movie maker movies.thought I had the perfect one with,Smart dvd creator.Worked fine for about 4 burns .After that.when I tried to play them kept getting disc error.Got a refund but their program was what I wanted.You might ask why don't I just save to dvd in movie maker? It doesn't work meaning it will not play on dvd player.

OS XP SP3
Thanks but please don't recommend roxio or nero. With smart creator when it was working just had to drag and drop finished movie and it burned playable dvd. Thanks again.

 

I use WinX DVD Author which I got free in a promotion a while ago.It works great for me,no complaints thus far.

http://www.winxdvd.com/dvd-author/

 

Thanks andyman will give it a try and let you know.

 

Tried it andyman same result disc error I guess it's not software problem.

 

yeah sounds like either hardware or something got messed up in windows itself.

 

I had to make in instructional dvd last year, and my boss bought a copy of Pinnacle Studio. It worked well enough for basic operations and produced working media. I tried lots of free ones, but they had learning curves I did not have time to learn. Pinnacle was pretty much out of the box ready to use (simplistic enough).

I don't know about it being "light". I don't spend much time on multimedia things, I just wanted one that worked and was simple to use.

Sul.

 

http://dottech.org/freebies/15148

 

thanks sully .Will give it a try. Thanks ACR1965 but I want to make dvd of movies I make on (windows moviemaker.) That link you sent ,unless I didn't find it is for ripping dvd.

 

I know this might be a silly question but might this be the disks you're using? Have you recently changed the brand of media you use,or tried different disks to eliminate that possibility?
Do these disks you're creating fail to play in your PC's DVD Rom and/or household DVD Player?Finally did you try burning them at a slower speed?

 

Andy that's not silly.but they burned on the discs I'm using.The program just stopped working.Evidently the co. didn't have an answer ,just gave me refund.

 

Perhaps you might find some more information on here:

http://www.fileforums.com/

 

I use http://www.dvdflick.net/ FREE

Make sure to use quality DVD-R disks also.

 

Boost I have dvd flick but it doesn't copy movies I make on wmk.Thanks

 

What I use is womble mpeg video wizard dvd. That has always worked for me.

But your problem seems to be bad media (if your movie isn't playing back properly). You can use the free nero discspeed utility (no installation required runs from the exe file) to test your blank dvd media.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Nero_CD-DVD_Speed

Also make sure the setting wasn't changed from PAL to NTCS or vice versa.

I always use dvdshrink to test my dvd files before I burn them. If the video_ts folder is opened by dvdshrink and analyze with no problem they are dvd compliant.. If you get "navigational errors" you need to use "fixvts" a small free program that can fix VOB's and make them compliant. Some dvd making software (winavi among others) will sometime make dvd's that require fixvts.

 

Give VSO ConvertXtoDVD (v4) a try.

I tried a lot of DVD makers to burn avi files to dvd, and that was the best of the light ones (for avi at least). installer = 17 MB.

Cyberlink PowerDirector Ultra (v would probably also work (did for me), but it's significantly heavier with more functionality (sound and video editing) that you may not need or want. The installer is a little over 230 MB.

If you want freeware, try DVD Flick. It didn't work for me, but I have on old piece of crap DVD player (the newer ones can just play avi directly).

 

i use ojosoft total video converter portable
convert to vob and burn with imgburn

 

Frank, you've got mail. See my pm before proceeding.

 

thanks everyone will give a try and report.

 

Hi


Not Gonna Lie! I know nowt about all this DVD software stuff

However!
Just have a look through these 3 How-To Geek articles....

One: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/3061/burn-any-video-file-type-to-play-on-a-dvd-player/

Two: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13516/convert-dvd-to-mp4-h.264-with-hd-decrypter-and-handbrake/

Three: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/13558/rip-and-convert-dvds-to-an-iso-image/


You Never Know!
There might be something in there that could be useful

Zeena

 

From your opening post Frank which program threw the disk error - Windows or Smart? Any details?

 

The dvd player Global

 

So Windows? We know how to upload a screenshot Frank?

 

Sorry global I burn the disc,but it Won't play in dvd player.It either comes up error in one player, tried it in another and it comes up no disc.Made two dozen coasters so far.Hope I'm reading you right.

 

http://www.formatoz.com/

Try format factory and see if you can convert it to a useable format that DVD Flick can use.

BTW:It's FREE also.

 

Switch to rewritables.