Make DVD home movies to play on TV

Hello: How do we make a DVD movie that we can play on a DVD player connected to a TV.? We have made a DVD and edited it with Roxio Easy Media Creator7 of our Grand children from our our Sony digital video camera and it will only play on the computer. We would like to make DVDs for the parents and out of town relatives so they can play them on their DVD players. We can’t get it to play on our DVD player. Our DVD player plays DVDs that we rent or buy so what do we have to do to get the ones made on the computer to work? The computer is an HP with XP Home Edition operating system, 512 MB of RAM, 80 GB Hard Drive, DVD + RW Drive, Athlon XP2000 +1.67 Ghz processor, USB 2 & 1394 ports and GeForce 2 MX 400 64MB SPR Video graphics. Thank you

 

If you're not really too picky about editing and making fancy menus, Power Producer 3 from Cyberlink will convert your DV input to Mpeg 2 in short order with pretty good quality video for a DVD.

It takes about 5-10 sec for PP3 to code the captured DV video to the mpeg 2 format so you won't have to wait forever as you do with some other programs and you go from there to creating the any menus and then on to burning... all in all a pretty easy program to use.

I've never had a problem playing DVDs made with PP3 on Toshiba, Panasonic or Sony DVD players.

I believe you can download a trial copy, but check the Cyberlink site to be sure.

 

Homemade DVDs don't seem to be an exact science. Some players are more picky than others about the media being used.