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A little know how lets you convert your home videos to DVD and get the quality
you want. An article by Bob Hudson.
www.signvideo.com/conv-v-to-d.htm

Did you for get to finalize the disc? DVD players will not play it unless you finalized the disc after recording. Good luck!

Thanks for the replies guys. I have tried a DVD-R instead of DVD-RW this morning but get the same problem. Does this mean that I will not be able to convert VHS to DVD at all then? I have a number of VHS tapes that I want to convert - will I have to send them to a professional converter rather than try to do them myself?

Thanks again for the help,
Tim.

2 timcclayton...
Not all dvd players play dvd-rw..either in -/+ 4mats. Only a rarely few of makes brands like Philips,LG n Mustek.(The last mention play almost everything) If U have dvd-ram disc,only Panasonis n JVC could played them.

Most DVD players won’t play the burned CD or DVD... it happens mostly with the the cheap quality DVD players... i had the same problem and just couldn’t fix it... and 'bout the quality, u can adjust the quality setting in option menu...

Hello.

I am trying to record from a camcorder onto an LG DR4810 DVD Recorder, but the DVD-RW disk doesn’t play on other DVD players. The steps I went through were:

1. I connect the camcorder to the LG’s digital input (IEEE 1394 connector).
2. I insert the video tape into the camcorder and rewind it to the beginning.
3. I insert a blank DVD-RW disk into the recorder and format it when prompted.
4. I press PLAY on the camcorder and straight away press RECORD on the recorder.
5. The footage appears on my TV as it is playing/recording as I have linked the recorder to my TV so that I can check it is running OK.
6. After an hour of recording, I play the DVD-RW disk in the recorder and it plays perfectly on TV.
7. I put the DVD-RW disk in 2 other DVD players and get a “NO DISK” error on both.
8. I put the DVD-RW disk in my PC’s DVD drive and can see a couple of files on the DVD, one of which has a file extension of VRO, but the DVD-RW won’t play. However, when I change the VRO extension to MPG, I can view the file (although the quality doesn’t seem to be too good).

It is driving me mad, and I’m running out of hair - can anyone help me ???

Many thanks,
Tim.