I'm using Nero Smartstart to burn dvd's. They are in MPG and AVI formats. I did my first burn today and it will play on the computer, but not my dvd player. Do I have to convert the format?

Thanks

Probably......you can do so using this free Converter called Super Converter......convert them to VOB DvD Compliant:
Super Converter (free)

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Sorry - should have used the search option. I can now see this question has been asked a few times already

Just want to make sure I understand this much...if I am burning a .avi file it needs to be converted. I am using Nero 6 does this program automatically convert?

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As far as I understand it, Nero does encode the file, though I do not think it does convert it.......(maybe it does)......from my personal experience (I'm using Nero 7), I always convert the files to VOB Compliant and then burn them, so I don't have any problems with picture and sound synchronication, which I've hearde some people complaining about....

The Super Converter converts the files quite fast and with VOB Compliant Nero doesn't bother anymore to encode the file, it burns it right away....

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you didn't mention what version of Nero you use...AFAIK, its only v7 that has all the needed codecs preloaded into the program, if yur using v6 or earlier, you would need to install the needed codecs....

I for one have not had one single valid video file fail to convert to DVD format using v7

@ Peerless

What version exactly do you use. I am having many problems with Nero 7. On every update they just get worse.

The problem is that I lost the Backup disk for the last version that worked properly, and have gone over to using SUPER to convert. And super has some really annoying option where you have to choose both aspect ratio and Video scaling. Also you can't do two pass encodes with it. Kinda like it otherwise. Very user friendly.

Not have to, but can choose......it also come with an built in G-Spot-kinda program to check on the file stats.....

I've just convereted some 15 Star trek part over night and then burnt them with Nero 7 taking each around 3 min. No encoding from Nero, just flat burning...

Guess, it seems a matter of choice.

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Thanks so much for the help thus far

I downloaded and installed Super, but I have absolutely no idea where to place all the settings. A little more help would be greatly appreciated

The way I show you is the way I always do it........

First Screen Shot:
Make the settings as shown (though you can also use other settings).



Second Screen Shot:
Rightclick the file and choose :Specify the output folder destination



Now you can actually press "Encode (active job list)"

Third Screen Shot:
You can check the file about its specifications by double clicking it (this might be useful if you want to burn a VCD; though I haven't used it a lot because I got always good results by just choosing VCD vob compliant).

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You've used PAL settings. IF they use NTSC then they should have 720 x 480 not 720 x 576. And frame/sec should be 29.97 not 25 for NTSC. But that depends upon whether they normally use NTSC or PAL. Just in case they burn a pal disk & find they can't play it on their ntsc player.