Advice on trouble burning .avi files

[samp]

Good day,

I have some .avi files on my laptop which play fine in Realplayer and other players I have installed on the laptop.

However, when I copy the files to a DVD disk using Nero and making a data file copy,  they refuse to play in my computer from the newly burned disk.
So I tried several times to see if it was a one time error but no, they just don't play from the disk.  Advice?

Thanks in advance,
Samp

[reddevilggg]

So, you put the disk in. Goto to my computer and right-click on your disk drive and goto OPEN. Then right-click the files you want and goto 'open with' and select 'realplayer'..............and nothing happens.

What exactly are you doing to get the files to play??

Need more info!!

[samp]

Hi,

thanks for your response...

Yes, that is what I do...I select the file I want on the DVD disc (the .avi file) and then either double click it or I select "open with" and choose one of the three players I have installed (All of which will play .avi files that I have on the computer and on other discs given to me by friends.)

So I am assuming I am doing something wrong in burning the .avi files to the DVD disk in the first place or the software isn't working or setup right.

Once I got a message that there was an error in the file but only once, the other times it just doesn't do anything.

Hope this answers your question...

thanks,
samp

[truenorth]

I would like you to try something to see if it changes your outcome. I want you to go to this web site
http://www.cocoonsoftware.com/
and download their free video converter software ( i use it) and then take one of your .avi files that is giving you the problem and convert it within the program to an .avi file format. Yes,yes i know it is supposedly already an .avi file. But i had this problem some time back (also with an .avi video) and i did what i am suggesting and it was then burned and worked perfectly. Please don't ask why that was i have no idea. truenorth