Please Help Me Make A DVD :)

[Philly_B]

What's up guys? Love the site, has been very helpful for all my DVD needs. I make back ups everyday now thatks to all of you out there, but I have a question and I need help. Long story short, my good friends are in a local band and I've recently helped them make a few music videos, they play their own music so nothing illegal is goin' down. They sent the final versions to me via e-mail and I saved them to my comp. They are simple windows media video format but I want to put them on a dvd. I've tried to open them in DVD Shrink and DVD dycrypter with no luck. I even tried to do it in nero and that didn't work on a blank DVD. What can I do to put them on DVD? Any tips will help. Thanks.

Philly

[jamoskeag3]

Whats format of what they send you.

[LT. Columbo]

try TMPGEnc or mediacoder

[Ajarnpat]

making a dvd

I usually use Arcsoft showbiz - you can get a free (full) trial.
Very simple to use and can mix stills with movie.
However, I recently had same problem as you - I could not burn a wma/v to disk. Tried all sorts of things.
Then I got some advice (from "Soup") that Nero 6 can be problematic.
So I tried opening NeroVisionExpress (part of Nero6) - through allprograms/start menu rather than using Nero SmartStart.
Bingo!
(And all this time I've been having problems backing up DVDs has been for same reason).
Hope this helps.
Pat

[lfcrule1972]

try TMPGEnc or mediacoder

[Philly_B]

Thanks guys, and sorry, the files are MPEGs. Mediacoder will open them but I don't really know what to do in that program. Does anyone have a guide, or some help. The Mediacoder forum isn't helpin' that much either. I have an older version of nero and when I tried yesterday, it seemed like nero was going to do the job. I put in all the files after selecting "Create a Video CD," and it said that the burn was sucessful but I was using a blank DVD, not a CD. I put it in my DVD player and nothin happened. It said "no disk." What else can I do?

[soup]

Google mediacoder guide, lots of hits.