Can't watch my Videos on TV

[mvhakon_gmxnet]

Hi,

I recently took a number of video clips, of which I made a movie. My system is Linux Mint, and I used OpenShot to stitch the clips.

The plan is to view the movie on my TV set. I'd prefer to copy that movie to the HDD attached to the TV. An alternate option would be to write a DVD. So far, I have failed miserably. Was able to create an output, which looked to me like data for a DVD. Then I used the DVD create software to write it to a DVD. However, the TV tells me there's no readable disk.

Is there an easy way to do that?

Appreciate any help I can get.

Hakon

[pakodominguez]

Can you play that DVD on your computer?

[[SiC]]

What format were the input files? Did OpenShot convert the finished clip? If I remember correctly the file must be MPEG2 to comply with DVD standard.

Br,
Zeb!

[mvhakon_gmxnet]

Pako, I've never tried to attach the DVD player to my PC.

Zeb, the videos are standard NEX output, and they are all name.MP4.

I thought it was easier to stitch all clips together, and then burn it to a DVD, however, the multitude of variables seems to be too much for my old brain. The apps used for stitching always want to convert to AVI, which I refused to do so far.

Hakon

[[SiC]]

Ok, that's what I thought. I think you need to convert the NEX-files to be able to get a playable DVD. Another guess is that you didn't burn a proper video-DVD, but rather a data-DVD.

You need MPEG2-files to burn a video-DVD, or you need some software that can convert them automatically in the process when you burn the DVD.

/Z!

Ps. I think Pako is suggesting you'd try the DVD in your computers built in DVD-player if it has one, rather than plugging in a standalone player

[pakodominguez]

Ps. I think Pako is suggesting you'd try the DVD in your computers built in DVD-player if it has one, rather than plugging in a standalone player

Bingo!

[[SiC]]

Something here that might help, like avi to DVD? (and just put your mp4 instead)

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/19-ffmp ... -all-needs


/Z!

[mvhakon_gmxnet]

Thanks a bunch guys. Appreciate you replies, which helped indeed.

Cheers, Hakon