[scootertiki]

I recently purchased a firewire port and Ulead Video Studio 6 to go with my JVC DV camcorder. I also have Windows XP which has Movie Maker on it.
THis may be a dumb question, but do I need to purchase a DVD-RW drive if I want to burn my movies to play on my DVD player? I have a Panasonic DVD player, that says it supports Windows Movie Maker, so does that mean I can burn the video to a CD-R in the WIndows Movie Maker format and it will work?? I am just trying to find the cheapest solution possible so that I can have these home movies playable on a DVD player. I do not want to purchase more expensive items just to do home movies!!! Please help!!!!!!!

[Monstrous Mi]

Good news. You do not need a DVD burner.

I assume your video files are in .mpg or .avi format on your computer. What you need to do is convert them to a format call Video CD or VCD. Most DVD players are capable of playing these types of disks.

For some info see:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/convert.htm#vcd

[n2gun]

If you have a cd-rw it is no problem. Go to the link in the post above and do some reading. I use a program called TMPGEnc to convert to mpg format and then use Nero to burn them as it has a component in it that actually converts the mpg to dvd format and it works great.

You can get TMPGEnc at this link.

http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_main.html

You can get the free Nero at this link

http://www.ahead.de/en/index.html

[prunejuice]

TMPGEnc and NERO 5.5 are what I use.
I can make great XVCD'd to play on my SONY DVD player.

Does your DVD player support different VCD formats?
Check this place out;
http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdplayers


Hey TMPGEnc fans, this place is worth a look;
http://www.kvcd.net/