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RocKstar
I have an HP laptop and the DVD player that comes with it sucks so much. Can anyone give me the name of a DVD/media player that actually works well with Windows 8?
Answer
Now i am using dvdfab media player on my new win8 operating system.You can also have a try with this one.
Now i am using dvdfab media player on my new win8 operating system.You can also have a try with this one.
How do you transfer a video from your camcorder to a DVD?
Joe.R
I have tried repeatedly to transfer videos taken with my Canon G10 digital camera, upload them to my computer, and burn them to a DVD-R disk.
I have found this nearly impossible to do correctly.
First of all, when I attach a USB cable and transfer the video files to my computer, it turns them into MVI files. When I click on these files, a message pops up that says Windows Media Player cannot play these files.
Why a mainstream camera--made not too long ago--creates files that WMP cannot play is one of the great mysteries of the world. You would think that I'm asking my computer to play an obscure format from the 1970's.
Anyway, when I insert a blank DVD-R disk into my desktop's drive, it asks me what I want to do. I select that I want to burn files to a CD/DVD and want to view them on a DVD player. I then click and drag 2 of the video files that WMP had claimed it could not play.
After it finishes burning the files to DVD, I test it to see if it works. I discover that only 1 of the 2 files were recorded when I play it on my computer. Don't ask me why.
When I try to play this same disk on my Playstation 3, it says that there are "no files". Unbelievable.
I wasted another blank DVD by testing to see what would happen if I selected the other option, which was "use disk like a USB drive", but NOTHING happens when I proceed with this option. It simply refuses to burn ANYTHING. It just ruins the disk by doing some kind of formatting, rendering it useless.
I am really frustrated at this point. Is it too much to ask to simply record video and view it on my DVD player?
FYI: I am using Windows 8.1
Answer
Lots to chew on...
First paragraph: The Canon Vixia HF G10 is a great camcorder that captures AVCHD-compressed high definition video into MTS files. A DVD-R can be a single layer 4.7 gig blank or 8.5 gig blank disk. They are designed to deal with standard definition VOB files - assuming the video is expected to playback on a regular DVD player. You did not tell us what you used to convert the high definition MTS (or M2TS) files to the VOB file format. Something converted them to MVI format - what was that?
Second paragraph: It is published and known that Windows Media Player is not a "universal media player". It does not know what to do with the MVI or MTS files. If you merely need playback, download and install VLC Player from www.videoLAN.org. There are other media players more robust than WMP. This is not a "great mystery", but a known, published, shortcoming of WMP. It is likely that WMP can easily deal with video formats from the 1970's. Since they were standard definition and there were not too many of them, it would be relatively easy to deal with.
Paragraph 3: THAT is a mystery - only one of the two files plays. Fascinating. Though we don't know what file type you burned and we don't know what format video is in the medial file... Try using VLC player.
Paragraph 4: The Playstation 3 has specific file types it can deal with. According to at least one manual
http://www.playstation.com/manual/pdf/CECH-2101A_2101B_3.10_1.pdf
Page 43 says "only discs recorded in NTSC standard can be played." This means VOB files for standard definition. Pages 49 and 50 have a little more detail. There is no information on "MVI" files, so that you can play those files on your Playstation 3 is not surprising.
Paragraph 5: That's irritating.
Paragraph 6: Not too much to ask... but making invalid assumptions won't help matters...
Paragraph 7: Thank you for letting us know.
Regroup:
We don't know what options settings you used for your G10. It has several ralted to resolution (1080 i/p; 720p; etc...). Assuming you are using the "default" - whatever that is, here's my suggested process...
Assuming you only want to *view* the video:
Option 1: Connect the camcorder to the HDTC using the component or HDMI connections.
Option 2: Copy the MTS/M2TS files to the computer. Connect the computer's VGA-out to the HDTV's VGA-in. I do this all the time with my Panasonic plasma. Works great.
Option 3: If you insist on wanting to use blank DVDs, you can - since we know the computer will play back the files, I use the VGA connection to the computer.
Assuming you want a DVD player to playback the video: A regular DVD player can't deal with high definition video. Use a DVD authoring application - like WinDVD, MyDVD or similar to downsample the high definition video to standard definition VOB files and burn the single layer or double layer blank disc.
Assuming you want a Blue Ray player (like the one in the PlayStation 3) to playback the video, use a Blue Ray video authoring application to convert that video to something the Blue Ray player can deal with, then burn THAT to the blank DVD... I like using the the tools that come with the Blue Ray disc burners from Lacie
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/range.htm?id=10058
But then, I don't have the issues you are having - I use Macs.
Lots to chew on...
First paragraph: The Canon Vixia HF G10 is a great camcorder that captures AVCHD-compressed high definition video into MTS files. A DVD-R can be a single layer 4.7 gig blank or 8.5 gig blank disk. They are designed to deal with standard definition VOB files - assuming the video is expected to playback on a regular DVD player. You did not tell us what you used to convert the high definition MTS (or M2TS) files to the VOB file format. Something converted them to MVI format - what was that?
Second paragraph: It is published and known that Windows Media Player is not a "universal media player". It does not know what to do with the MVI or MTS files. If you merely need playback, download and install VLC Player from www.videoLAN.org. There are other media players more robust than WMP. This is not a "great mystery", but a known, published, shortcoming of WMP. It is likely that WMP can easily deal with video formats from the 1970's. Since they were standard definition and there were not too many of them, it would be relatively easy to deal with.
Paragraph 3: THAT is a mystery - only one of the two files plays. Fascinating. Though we don't know what file type you burned and we don't know what format video is in the medial file... Try using VLC player.
Paragraph 4: The Playstation 3 has specific file types it can deal with. According to at least one manual
http://www.playstation.com/manual/pdf/CECH-2101A_2101B_3.10_1.pdf
Page 43 says "only discs recorded in NTSC standard can be played." This means VOB files for standard definition. Pages 49 and 50 have a little more detail. There is no information on "MVI" files, so that you can play those files on your Playstation 3 is not surprising.
Paragraph 5: That's irritating.
Paragraph 6: Not too much to ask... but making invalid assumptions won't help matters...
Paragraph 7: Thank you for letting us know.
Regroup:
We don't know what options settings you used for your G10. It has several ralted to resolution (1080 i/p; 720p; etc...). Assuming you are using the "default" - whatever that is, here's my suggested process...
Assuming you only want to *view* the video:
Option 1: Connect the camcorder to the HDTC using the component or HDMI connections.
Option 2: Copy the MTS/M2TS files to the computer. Connect the computer's VGA-out to the HDTV's VGA-in. I do this all the time with my Panasonic plasma. Works great.
Option 3: If you insist on wanting to use blank DVDs, you can - since we know the computer will play back the files, I use the VGA connection to the computer.
Assuming you want a DVD player to playback the video: A regular DVD player can't deal with high definition video. Use a DVD authoring application - like WinDVD, MyDVD or similar to downsample the high definition video to standard definition VOB files and burn the single layer or double layer blank disc.
Assuming you want a Blue Ray player (like the one in the PlayStation 3) to playback the video, use a Blue Ray video authoring application to convert that video to something the Blue Ray player can deal with, then burn THAT to the blank DVD... I like using the the tools that come with the Blue Ray disc burners from Lacie
http://www.lacie.com/us/products/range.htm?id=10058
But then, I don't have the issues you are having - I use Macs.
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