Calling ALL Computer Literate People who know how to burn DVD’s PLEASE HELP!!!!!?

Question by Eulalia: Calling ALL Computer Literate People who know how to burn DVD’s PLEASE HELP!!!!!?
I have a Kodak Easy Share Camera in which I have many home movies of my kids in sports and what not that I really want to burn onto a DVD that will play in my DVD player. I just bought a new DVD writer and a new DVD player that is suppose to play these types of discs. I’m having trouble writing them to a disc and if I do get it to write to a disc, it won’t play on my DVD player. I’ve tried Memorex brand DVD+RW with 4X speed and it wouldn’t even write to it. Says it needs to be a slower burn speed. Then I also tried the Memorex brand DVD+R with a 16X speed, in which, I finally got it to write the videos onto the disc, but it still fails to play in my DVD player. I bought, yet, more DVD’s of a different brand, Sony, that I have yet to try. They are DVD+R with a 1-16X speed. I have talked to a few people about this problem and they mentioned needing a DVD movie maker program in which will encode the disc making it compatible to play on my DVD player. They also said there are several free one’s to choose from to download. There are so many to choose from and wondered if anyone had any clue which were best. Any suggestions or advice? None of this makes a whole lot of sense to me as I am somewhat technologically challenged. If you are more computer literate about this sort of thing and can help me out please do so by replying. Please also include what to do once I have downloaded the software. Thank you!!!

Best answer:

Answer by Jake B
Okay, first things first; make sure you are the administrator of your computer (so you can write dvds). Then make sure your DVD RW is empty. THEN (if you have a mac, create a burn folder and just burn it), if you have a windows, any of those ‘many options’ will work. The speed of your CD drive shouldn’t matter.

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