win media player 11 DVD burner

s k r o o t a y p wrote on 5/24/2006, 9:39 PM

~can anyone walk me through how to use the windows media player 11beta to burn a DVD?

i just downloaded the upgrade to 11. i have my VMS projects and their DVDA counterparts sitting on my desktop in folders ready to be burned to disk for storage. what do i do now?

thanks!

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Chienworks wrote on 5/25/2006, 4:08 AM

I wouldn't have a clue since i don't have that installed. That being said, my clueless answer is that you need to Prepare in DVDA to produce a folder containing AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS folders, the VIDEO_TS folder containing a bunch of .VOB, .IFO, and .BUP files. Once you have this then just about any burning program that can write to DVD blanks can burn the DVD for you from these folders.

Is there a reason you aren't burning with DVDA?

ScottW wrote on 5/25/2006, 8:49 AM

It doesn't look like you can burn a DVD with WMP 11 - the web site only talks about burning CD's.

s k r o o t a y p wrote on 5/25/2006, 9:14 PM

Cw clueless? perish the thought! : )

~this is just basically a continuation of my quest in VMS forum post "can i save a vms project in process to disk?" my finished projects are piling up on the harddrive and i thought i had finally found a DVD burn utility to stow them on disk. i saved them all just as instructed in that thread. a friend said that he thought WMP 11 now burns DVD's so i downloaded the upgrade because free is all that's in the budget right now. unless i misunderstood, douglas said DVDA studio can't burn stuff to disk "as project".

Chienworks wrote on 5/25/2006, 9:38 PM

Ah, so you're not looking to make a video DVD, you want to make a data disc. What burning software do you have? Something should have come with your burner. Nero does this very well. Probably Roxio/EZ CD Creator does too. I would suspect that if WMP does burn DVDs it would only make video DVDs anyway.

s k r o o t a y p wrote on 5/25/2006, 11:14 PM

~yes data DVD for project storage. that's what i want to do. it seems i am the only being on the planet who owns a computer that came with a DVD burner drive but no burn utility. i was hoping to find a free one to download. so far ian's suggestion on the afore mentioned thread is my only lead. he's supposed to contact me with the details. maybe i'll do the nero free trial just to get by for now.

bStro wrote on 5/26/2006, 10:28 AM

You don't mention, if any, free DVD burning apps that you've tried, so here are some I found with a quick Google search:

CDBurnerXP
DeepBurner Free
Burn4Free

Can't vouch for them 'cause I use Nero.