Help burning DVD's
Here's an email reply I got from the support folks at NTIUS.com (their software, NTIDVD Maker, came with my DVD burner). Obviously, I have to buy other software to burn a DVD that will play in a DVD player. Just burning a MPG/AVI to a DVD is like putting it on a CD, but it will not play automatically from the DVD.
"Dear Customer,
Our software gathers the information that will be sent to the drive. The drive handles the physical writing to the disc. If the drive is failing to write onto a certain type or brand of disc then it might not fully support it. A video TS file or folder is a modified movie file. These files or folders come from the disc itself. If you have an mpg file then it will not be supported by the DVD video TS option. MPEG files and AVI files are supported with the VCD or SVCD options (use CD media only) some DVD players will play this type of disc.
Best Regards,
Angel - NTI Technical Support www.ntius.com"