# Burning Video DVDs

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 7, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204 "2002-12-07T22:36:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![skaterboarder87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204/1 "2002-12-07T22:36:33Z")

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I have Pinnacle’s Studio 8 and am able to create DVDs with it. When I export my movie, I can either burn it directly to a DVD-R or make a copy of it on the harddrive so I can burn it later. My question is, is there anything special I need to do to burn it later? Do I choose “data disk” from my software meny and burn it as if it were computer data? Will that play on my DVD player? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![skaterboarder87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2002, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204/2 "2002-12-07T23:57:17Z")

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**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204/3 "2002-12-08T00:12:04Z")

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[This page](http://www.vcdhelp.com/author) has what you’re looking for. Look about a third of the way down the page, under the heading “How to author and burn MPEG2 to a compliant DVD with menus and chapters.” There are several guides.

Sorry I can’t offer more specific information. I’m interested in video encoding, but I don’t have a DVD-R drive, so I haven’t read up on all of this.

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204/4 "2002-12-08T00:43:46Z")

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Never heard of sending a dvd flick to the dvd directly thats why you must use a program to write them. A dvd likes to have a couple of folders: VIDEO\_ts & AUDIO\_ts I think they are, but if you look at a commercial dvd you can tell.

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**Author:** ![skaterboarder87](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@skaterboarder87](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skaterboarder87)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/burning-video-dvds/141204/5 "2002-12-08T00:48:38Z")

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That’s where I get confused…When I crate a DVD image on my computer, here are the folders it gives me:

DVDTmp  
Menus  
mpi  
Video\_ts  
vmgm  
vts\_1

I tried burning them all to a DVD and testing it on various players. My computer DVD player could play them just fine. My stand alone DVD player would load the menu, but then freeze upon making a selection, and my PS2 and Xbox both couldn’t read it at all. I then tried making a DVD with just the Video\_ts folder, but the results were identical. I should also note that I’m using a DVD-RW