Help ! Creating a DVD

[Gil T.Azell]

I have been trying to burn a DVD from a few shot videos I made of a friends daughters birthday party, for those who couldn't make it there
But I keep getting these messages

Cannot create the DVD
An error occurred when burning the DVD

It occurred at the 99% mark, What am I doing wrong?

I'm using the windows DVD maker, and there is nothing on the DVD-RW.
Thanks in advance.
Bill

 

[Lindley]

I'm not familiar with that program, but if possible, ask it to create a disk image only, which you can then try burning from another program (or even another computer). You can also mount the disk image and make sure the DVD works as intended.

 

[Small White Car]

Does it give you a size estimate for the disk? (I don't know the program either.)

It's not doing something dumb like trying to burn 4.3 GB on a 4.2 GB disk but not discovering that until it hits the 4.2 mark, is it?

Just a wild guess.

EDIT: You say "a few short videos." Can you take 1 out and see if it works then? That'll either prove or disprove my theory.

 

[deadnite]

It seems that you encounter the error during the burning process and not while you are encoding/authoring the dvd. I'd try a different dvd burning program. Can you author the dvd and then choose to burn it with a different program? Also you might try this guide: http://lifehacker.com/232322/hack-attack-burn-almost-any-video-file-to-a-playable-dvd. I haven't tried it, but it looks good to me. Some other tips not related to your problem, though good to know: Some dvd players can't play DVD-RW discs. And many won't play them unless you finalize/close the disc.

 

[Gil T.Azell]

The Disks are 4.7 gb
the two videos are just under 24 min. in length in total.
4.00 KB (4,096 bytes).

 

[Lindley]

It's quite impossible that 24 minutes of video could fit into 4k. However, it's equally unlikely that that much video would push 4.7GB, unless they're at some super-high resolution.

 

[Pingfah]

If they were too big, it wouldn't attempt to burn the disc in the first place i'd imagine. I assume the video files have already been created and this is the actual burn process that fails.

Has the DVD-RW been used before? I'd just go with a blank non-rewriteable disc and try that.

 

[LitmusDragon]

Very difficult to say what might be the issue but I would imagine it's probably a bug you've found in Windows DVD maker.

Try DVD Flick instead, it's free and very easy to use:
link

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I've now got them to burn using the program that came with the cammera but they still won't play on my Blu-Ray that is DVD/DVD-RW etc. compatible. even after I converted them to AVI's???

 

[Gil T.Azell]

I some what figuered it out thanks for the help and suggestions.
Bill.

This thread can be closed.

 

[Australis]

See if you can get a copy of Nero, it's pretty reliable.