Burning dvd's to watch in you'r car

[Lotus49]

Ive tried burning DVD + RW and DVD - RW format ,I cant get videos to work in the car.I put the disc in and nothing happens. I put a blockbuster movie in and it plays . They work in every other [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]dvd [COLOR=blue! important]player[/color][/color][/color] Any idea how i can do this? Its a 2004 CTS

[TAWoody]

Can't do it man, sorry. Most cars can't read RWs. Try a DVD-r or DVD+r. I'm not sure if it'll work though. Some DVD players can't play burned CDs or DVDs and this car is no exception. I think the lasers are cheaper in stock cars than in most home DVD players.

[rblimas]

Originally Posted by Lotus49

Ive tried burning DVD + RW and DVD - RW format ,I cant get videos to work in the car.I put the disc in and nothing happens. I put a blockbuster movie in and it plays . They work in every other [COLOR=blue! important][COLOR=blue! important]dvd [COLOR=blue! important]player[/color][/color][/color] Any idea how i can do this? Its a 2004 CTS

i heard that it only plays DVD-R

[View]

Make sure you burn it as a movie disc not just put mpg on the disc. Most movie discs are dual-layer

[TAWoody]

Originally Posted by View

Make sure you burn it as a movie disc not just put mpg on the disc. Most movie discs are dual-layer

If it plays in your home DVD player it should work. Home DVD players can't read the discs if they're burned as only a mpg or wmv either. Most movies are dual layer, yes. You'll have to compress those to fit onto the smaller cheaper 4.7G DVDs. But that won't matter on such a small screen, you won't notice a loss of video quality.

[Lotus49]

well i used nero, and i tried using ulead, and adobe premiere. Its a dvd-RW maybe if its just a dvd-r it might work. Also. a dual layer dvd needs a dual layer dvd wrighter too correct? I tried burning it as a tso and vob. Like a nomral dvd video.. Still no luck

[rblimas]

Originally Posted by Lotus49

well i used nero, and i tried using ulead, and adobe premiere. Its a dvd-RW maybe if its just a dvd-r it might work. Also. a dual layer dvd needs a dual layer dvd wrighter too correct? I tried burning it as a tso and vob. Like a nomral dvd video.. Still no luck

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[dkozloski]

God is trying to warn you about your misguided efforts.

[Lotus49]

Originally Posted by dkozloski

God is trying to warn you about your misguided efforts.

hhaha but its so cool to watch a dvd, talk on the cell and drive all at the same time.

[TAWoody]

Originally Posted by Lotus49

well i used nero, and i tried using ulead, and adobe premiere. Its a dvd-RW maybe if its just a dvd-r it might work. Also. a dual layer dvd needs a dual layer dvd wrighter too correct? I tried burning it as a tso and vob. Like a nomral dvd video.. Still no luck

Nero is just fine and the way you burned it is ok, but most cheap DVD players don't do RW, just R. So use that media instead. To burn dual layered DVDs you DO need a dual layer writer...but they're not very cost effective right now. Wait until Blue Ray or HD-DVD come out soon. I burn lots of movies onto the 4.7G DVDs and the quality isn't very noticeably crappier. In general any movie over 120 minutes will need to be compressed. But I have only burned 1 movie that was noticeably worse.

[TAWoody]

Originally Posted by dkozloski

God is trying to warn you about your misguided efforts.

Actually, I would burn my movies to DVD-Rs and use them in the car instead of keeping the original copies. I don't know about you, but any CD or DVD of mine gets messed up in the car one way or another at some point.

[wewin1]

I know for a fact that burned DVD movies work in our cars. Every single DVD that I have burned works in the car. It cannot be a DVD-RW. You have to use a R disc. Also it matters on what format the movie is in and file type. If your downloading a movie, make sure it is formated for NTSC instead of the PAL region code.

[View]

Originally Posted by TAWoody

If it plays in your home DVD player it should work. Home DVD players can't read the discs if they're burned as only a mpg or wmv either. Most movies are dual layer, yes. You'll have to compress those to fit onto the smaller cheaper 4.7G DVDs. But that won't matter on such a small screen, you won't notice a loss of video quality.

Some DVD players play MPG or WMV files. I usually use DVDFab or something similar to "back up" the DVD movies so that I don't have to worry about scratching the original discs (you know it's good to have back-up's )
DVDFab compresses a dual-layer movie so it would fit in a regular 4.7GB disc.

[d-dash]

I use DVDxCopy to back up my dvd's. Most of the time when I try to play them in my car, it looks like they get stuck on fast forward or something like that. I don't really understand what it is doing, but I always use dvd-r disks and do a simple copy(only copies the movie part). Every time i put it in the car, it is like it only reads 1 out of every 4-6 frames. Anyone else notice this?

[70eldo]

My experience:
- Use DVD-9 dual layer DVD-R (4.7 GB dvds skip!)
- Dual layer burner
- Nero 7; burn DVD film.
- NTSC