I conquered Moviemaker and burned a movie to DVD using my downloaded slides. It played on our TV/DVD player just fine.

When I used the same slides, added music, burned the new movie to DVD, none of the TV/DVD players that I have tried it on recognize the DVD.

Any ideas??

HPDR wrote:

> I conquered Moviemaker and burned a movie to DVD using my downloaded
> slides. It played on our TV/DVD player just fine.
>
> When I used the same slides, added music, burned the new movie to DVD,
> none of the TV/DVD players that I have tried it on recognize the DVD.
>
> Any ideas??

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Are you saying the only difference was the
addition of the music file? Maybe the music
file has compatibility issues with Movie Maker:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...patibility.htm

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Thanks for your help, John. Yes, the files worked OK until I added audio. I checked the sites you recommended and, per the caveat that the program works best with WMA audio files (among others), checked this. My audio files are in WMA format; slides are jpegs. Am not certain where to proceed from the sites since I'm not a computer guru. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

hpdr

HPDR wrote:

> Thanks for your help, John. Yes, the files worked OK until I added
> audio. I checked the sites you recommended and, per the caveat that
> the program works best with WMA audio files (among others), checked
> this. My audio files are in WMA format; slides are jpegs. Am not
> certain where to proceed from the sites since I'm not a computer
> guru. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> hpdr

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I'm still thinking there could be a compatibility
issue but am not certain. You may have noticed
that JPEGs can sometimes cause issues but
since the first project was successful...I'm guessing
that's not the problem.

It may be worth a try to convert the .wma audio files
to .wav. Actually you could even try converting them
to .wma because the converter will use different
codecs.

The following freeware may be worth a try:

SUPER © Simplified
Universal Player Encoder & Renderer
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER
(the mirror download site is faster)

Did you Publish your project first as a Movie before
attempting to create the DVD?

Windows Vista -
Publish a movie in
Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/2lo4gp
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...8cdf21033.mspx

Then you could burn your .wmv movie file to
a DVD:

Windows Vista -
Burn pictures and movies to DVD-Video
disc using Windows DVD Maker
http://tinyurl.com/3xtcfs
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Win...a60261033.mspx

Good luck.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk