jcage Posted May 29, 2011 Posted May 29, 2011 I'm trying to use Imgburn to burn a fairly small (50MB) .wmv file onto a CD or DVD and haven't had much luck using Imgburn. The .wmv file was created using camera software on my Windows 7 machine and I'm trying to burn to a usable disk where others without computer access can watch that video okay on their standard DVD player. I've tried selecting "create image file from files/folders" in my Imgburn 2.5.5 and no luck with CD or DVD. Any help would be greatly appreciated. john
Rincewind Posted May 29, 2011 Posted May 29, 2011 (edited) Imgburn burns 'as is' and will not turn your .wmv file into a DVD-Video disc. If you want your content to be played on a set-top DVD Player, you first need to convert your .wmv file into the proper DVD-Video format, (VIDEO_TS directory with IFO,BUP,VOB files). DVDFlick will do this, and it is free. Once you have converted your content to DVD-Video format, you THEN can use imgburn to burn that to disc. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4632 -edit Also even though the content is small enough to fit on a CD-R, do not burn it to a CD-R! Use a DVD+R or DVD-R instead. The reason for this is that most set-top DVD Players will probably not allow playback of DVD-Video on such discs. They expect a DVD disc (pressed or burned), and most of the time set top players will reject the disc if it is a CD-R with VIDEO_TS content. Edited May 29, 2011 by Rincewind
LIGHTNING UK! Posted May 29, 2011 Posted May 29, 2011 ImgBurn burns files 'as is'. So if you burn a wmv, you'll end up with a wmv on a disc - NOT what you appear to be after. Use something like DVDFlick or ConvertXtoDVD to convert the wmv into a nice set of DVD Video files (VIDEO_TS folder with IFO/VOB/BUP files) and then burn that with ImgBurn.
jcage Posted May 29, 2011 Author Posted May 29, 2011 Imgburn burns 'as is' and will not turn your .wmv file into a DVD-Video disc. If you want your content to be played on a set-top DVD Player, you first need to convert your .wmv file into the proper DVD-Video format, (VIDEO_TS directory with IFO,BUP,VOB files). DVDFlick will do this, and it is free. Once you have converted your content to DVD-Video format, you THEN can use imgburn to burn that to disc. http://forum.imgburn.com/index.php?showtopic=4632 -edit Also even though the content is small enough to fit on a CD-R, do not burn it to a CD-R! Use a DVD+R or DVD-R instead. The reason for this is that most set-top DVD Players will probably not allow playback of DVD-Video on such discs. They expect a DVD disc (pressed or burned), and most of the time set top players will reject the disc if it is a CD-R with VIDEO_TS content. DVD FLick did the trick. Thanks for the replies guys - appreciate it very much.
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