Burning problems

[philthyphil]

Hi,I havea few movieson my harddrive that I can watch on my laptop...but when I try to burn ...gets halfway through and comes up with I need a multichannel plugin...or need Dolby Digital 5.1.....have tried to find a download to resolve the problem to no avail....any ideas out there?thanks ,philthyphil

 

[wanna be geek]

What type of burner do you have and what burning software are you you using????

 

[philthyphil]

Hi wannabe,thanks for the interest,I have a Dell Inspiron6000...the burner is Fujitsu MHT2060AH....NEC DVD+-RW ND6500A...and the software that I tried was 1Click DVD...&..Nero 6.....nothing would accept the info to burn...in desperation I tried a old Roxio 6...that I've had forever ...and presto ..it worked...funny thing,the discs will play on dvd player but not on my laptop although the same movie on my desktop will play...weird eh??would love to hear back from you on your thoughts on this...once again,thanks for the interest...philthyphil

 

[wanna be geek]

That my friend is a simple codectproblem... Download and install the proper ones and you will be good to go..

 

[mazameez]

The K-lite codec pack should solve your problem
Here's the link: http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

If you do not want to go with that option, you can always try a different player.
My preference is the kmplayer (one word). It plays almost any file format, and not just video, audio as well. Best of all, its free and much better than the VLC player (in my opinion).
Link: http://www.download.com/The-KMPlayer/3000-13632_4-10659939.html?tag=lst-1

You can do some research on it before you try it out if you like.....

 

[LookinAround]

Or you can often avoid the "find the right matching codecs" headache by simply using VideoLan VLC media player
A cross-platform freeware media player released under a GNU license.,

 

[wanna be geek]

I agree, VideoLan VLC media player is prob your best bet...

 

[LookinAround]

oh.

and i just saw the detail in the post from mazameez about kmplayer. Will have to go check that out as well....

 

[philthyphil]

Thanks out there...the reponse was great...shall try out the sug. and get back to yous.....philthyphil