Problem burning to a dual layer disc

wadewade

I use Windows Live Movie Maker on my Dell i-5 equipped laptop. I can burn to a standard DVD but I am currently trying to burn a holiday video of 5 GB which will not fit on to a standard DVD. Roxio told me to use a greater capacity disc so I bought some Verbatim DVD+R DL. It goes through the procedure for burning and the little icon shows that I have used just over half the DVD. It then ejects the disc. But it won't play on either my Panasonic HD television or even on another computer. It's almost as if it has not been finalised. I'm puzzled why a standard disc works using the same procedure. I've checked and the laptop spec says it can handle DVD+R DL. Am I doing something wrong?

stilltheone

Try a different burner, say ImgBurn. Don't install the Google ToolBar.

asbokid

wadewade wrote: »

I use Windows Live Movie Maker on my Dell i-5 equipped laptop. I can burn to a standard DVD but I am currently trying to burn a holiday video of 5 GB which will not fit on to a standard DVD. Roxio told me to use a greater capacity disc so I bought some Verbatim DVD+R DL. It goes through the procedure for burning and the little icon shows that I have used just over half the DVD. It then ejects the disc. But it won't play on either my Panasonic HD television or even on another computer. It's almost as if it has not been finalised. I'm puzzled why a standard disc works using the same procedure. I've checked and the laptop spec says it can handle DVD+R DL. Am I doing something wrong?

That says that the DVD drive can read from a dual layer disc, but can it burn to double layer? Many laptop DVD drives cannot. What is the make and model number of your laptop?

If that's the case that the laptop can read dual layer but cannot write to them, then re-encode your video at a lower bitrate to ensure it will fit on a single layer DVD.

The open source tool avidemux has a foolproof [Auto] selection for encoding videos that will fit on a 4.7GB DVD. You are only 300MB over that limit so you won't notice the loss of quality from a bit of squeezing. Single layer DVD are also much cheaper in terms of gigabytes per £££

aliEnRIK

I used an older version of NERO when I first tried to burn dual layer discs. Turns out NERO failed in some way.
As above, use IMGBURN that definitely works
Does roxio have to convert the files for it to work normally? (cant say as ive ever used 'Movie Maker' so no clue what files are produced)
For it to work on a standard dvd player the files must be VOB fles and inside a VIDEO_TS folder

wadewade

Thank you all for your help. All your replies have been very helpful. The replies to your suggestions are:

asbokid: My Dell laptop is the Inspiron N5010. The Dell support site tells me this has a TSSTcorp TS L633J drive and it's spec says it will both read and write to DL discs. I will give avidemux a try as a short term solution to my problem, thanks.

stillthe one: Thank you for telling me about IMGBURN. If I can't get Roxio to do the job I'll certainly give it a try.

EnRik: Windows Live Movie Maker produces files with .wmv suffix. I saw a reference to this Microsoft download in a Sunday paper and I like the friendly way it helps you edit your video.

My present film is about 25 minutes long for showing on my HD television. My long term ambition is to be able to produce slightly longer films so it sounds as if Imgburn might be my best answer providing it can accept files produced on Windows Live Movie Maker.

Thanks again everyone.

aliEnRIK

So what would you be playing the disc in if it worked? (for example, would you use a PS3, a bluray player with streaming functionality, via usb to your tv or what?)
Is the video in HD? Do you want to watch it in HD?

System

Will it play on the laptop that it was written with?

wadewade

Thanks, AliEnRik, my aim is to produce an HD quality DVD that I can send to relatives for them to play on their DVD players into their HD enabled televisions.

aliEnRIK

Lets get terminology down here
You cant get HD through a standard dvd player. So your saying you want a decent quality SD dvd? (Standard definition, as played by standard dvd players)
You can put HD video onto a dvd, but you need something better than a standard dvd player to play it

wadewade

Yes, of course, you are right. I start off with an HD camera and can show HD from my camera with an HD lead but once I put copies onto a disc they come out as standard, sorry - I wasn't thinking straight!! Since Windows Live Media Maker offered to make an HD transfer I just clicked yes. Do I need to see if it will make a copy in SD to my DVD disc, do you think?

As you can tell, I'm a complete novice in this field, and it doesn't help being the wrong side of 65!!

stilltheone

wadewade wrote: »

Yes, of course, you are right. I start off with an HD camera and can show HD from my camera with an HD lead but once I put copies onto a disc they come out as standard, sorry - I wasn't thinking straight!! Since Windows Live Media Maker offered to make an HD transfer I just clicked yes. Do I need to see if it will make a copy in SD to my DVD disc, do you think?

As you can tell, I'm a complete novice in this field, and it doesn't help being the wrong side of 65!!

Yes, just choose to make a standard DVD Video if you are ok with standard DVD Video quality.