I can't play my DVD on my DVD player. I get a message that says: "disk is incompatible." How to burn a DVD compatible with DVD players?

Original title: DVD burning

I successfully burned a DVD of a film I made with moviemaker that I can still play on older versions of Windows, but I can't play my DVD on my DVD player.  I get a message that says: "disk is incompatible."  How to burn a DVD compatible with DVD players?

Hello Angels3cma,

Thank you for posting.  It seems that you were doing data DVD discs.  To burn DVDs to be compatible with the DVD player, you will need to make DVD-video disc.  I have listed the steps below to make DVD-video disc in Windows DVD Maker.  These same steps are be typing "How to burn a movie on a DVD" in Help and Support found by pressing the button Start/Orb you Windows desktop.

Burn a DVD-video disc

You can create DVDs quickly and easily using Windows DVD creation. You can add videos, photos and audio, make slide shows for your DVD, or add your Windows Movie Maker projects. Once you add files, you can burn your DVD with a single click, or, if you prefer, you can choose from several styles of menu and the slide show options to make your special DVD before you burn, or customize your DVD menus and write the DVD menu text yourself.

After you create a DVD, you can play the DVD on a DVD player and watch your movies and slide shows on TV. The following steps explain how to use creation of Windows DVD to burn a DVD.

To open Windows DVD Maker

  • Click Start, click all programs, and then click Windows DVD creation.

    Note

    • You can also open Windows DVD Maker by inserting a DVD recordable or rewritable Virgin in your DVD burner. When the AutoPlay dialog appears automatically, click on burn a DVD video disc using Windows DVD creation.

To add and mix and match the elements on a DVD

  1. On sharing your memories on a DVD page, click Choose photos and videos.

  2. Do one of the following on the Add pictures and video to the DVD page:

    • Click Add items. Find and select the video files, photos, and files in project Windows Movie Maker that you want to add to your DVD, and then click Add.

    • Click file and then click Open project file. Find the folder that contains a project file creation of Windows DVD that you want to use for your DVD, click the project for creating Windows DVD file, and then click Open.

      You can also click Add items to add additional items to the DVD after opening a Windows DVD project file.

  3. To arrange items and specify the order in which the different items will play from the DVD, click on the video, photo or slide show that you want to move, then click on go up or down. You can also move items by dragging upwards or downwards in the list.

  4. To remove an item from the DVD, select the item you want to remove, and then click on remove items.

Choose a DVD burner and enter a DVD title

  1. If you have more than one DVD burner installed on your computer, on the add pictures and video to the DVD page, select the DVD burner that you want to use from the DVD burner list.

  2. If you want to set different options for your DVD, click Options. For more information about the different options you can specify when burning a DVD, see Change DVD-video settings.

  3. Click the disc title box, and then type a title for the DVD.

To change the text of a menu for your DVD

  1. Once you have added all of your files and chosen the burner and title, click Next.

  2. To customize the text for the DVD menu, click Menu text, and then do one or more of the following:

  • Click on the police box and then select the font for the text of the menu.

  • Click the font color, bold or italic buttons to select the font color and formatting.

  • In the disc title box, type the title that you want to use for your DVD.

  • In the Play button box, type a label for the button that plays your DVD.

  • In the scenes button box, type a label for the button that displays the different scenes on the DVD.

  • In the area of the button notes, type a label for the button that shows all the notes you enter for the DVD.

  • In the comments box, type any notes that you want to appear on your DVD.

    Notes button and Notes page only appear on the DVD if you include information in these fields.

  • Click on the text to change.

Tip

  • You can see a static preview of your settings in the preview to the right of the display pane. Alternatively, to see how the menu text will display when you burn your DVD, click Preview.

To customize the menu for your DVD style

  1. To customize the style of menu for your DVD, click one of the styles of DVD menu along the right side of the screen, or click the Customize menu, and then do one or more of the following:

    • Click on the police box and select a font.

    • Click the font color, bold or italic buttons to select the font color and formatting.

    • If you have chosen a style of menu with the two in the foreground and background video options, near foreground video, click Browse, locate the video that you want to appear in the foreground and then click Open.

    • To have a picture or video appear as background for the main menu of the DVD, near background video, click Browse, locate the video that you want to appear in the background, and then click Open.

    • To add a digital media audio file to play as background music, while the menu for your DVD, near audio menu, click Browse, locate the audio file you want to use, and then click Open.

    • Click the scenes button styles box, and then select the shape of the buttons scenes on your DVD.

    • If you want to see the menu as it will appear when you play your DVD, click Preview.

  2. If you want to save the DVD menu custom settings as a new DVD menu style, click Save as new style. In the name of Style name box, type a name for the custom menu style, and then click OK. You can then choose to use this DVD menu style custom for the current DVD and for other DVDs you create using Windows DVD creation.

  3. If you have not saved the style as a new style, click Change Style to save the changes you made for this DVD and to return to the previous page.

Choose a slide show on the DVD settings

  1. To set the settings of the picture for the slide show on your DVD, click slide show.

  2. On the change your slide show settings page, do one or more of the following:

    • Click Add music, locate the music files you want to add, and then click Open.

    • Depending on the length and the slide show's settings, you can add additional audio files. To do this, repeat the previous step.

    • If you added more than one audio file and you want to change the order in which the music files play in the slide show, click an audio file that you want to move and then click on move up or move down.

    • To remove an audio file in the list, in the music for slide show list, select the audio file, and then click on remove.

    • To change the length of the slide show automatically so that it corresponds to the duration of the music that you have added, select the Change slide show length to match music length check box.

  • To specify the duration for each picture to display in the slide show, select the duration (in seconds) in the length of the picture box.

  • To choose the kind of transitions to use between pictures, select a transition type in the Transition area.

  • To add effects, Pan and zoom to the pictures you include in your slide show, click on use the Pan and zoom for images effects.

  • Click Change slide show to save the changes you made and to go to the previous page.

    • To burn your DVD

    1. When you have finished adding files and customize your DVD menus, click on burn.

    2. After the DVD disc burned successfully, you can do one or more of the following operations on your disc is ready page:

      • To make another copy of the current DVD, remove the completed DVD, insert a new recordable DVD, and then click on create another copy of this disc.

      • To finish creating Windows DVD, click Close.

    Please let me know if this helps you to Zack
    Engineer Microsoft Support answers visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

    Tags: Windows

    Similar Questions

    Maybe you are looking for