Hey guys,
I've been trying to BURN a dvd for my brother and I recently found out my HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4243N drive cannot write to a dvd. If I INSERT a dvd-r it doesn't even recognize it.

Anyway, I'm wondering if it is possible to burn a .rmvb file onto a cd-r and be able to play it back and actually be able to see the video in addition to the audio.

Thanks for any help.Nope you can't burn .rmvb file to cd-r. You need to convert that first to mpeg or mp4 if video and mp3 if audio. DVD and VCD players nowadays would not support .rmvb files.If the file SIZE of the rmvb file is less than the size of the CD-R you can burn it to the CD-R as a data disk. Is this what you wanted to know?, However, if you want it to play in an regular standalone DVD player that's another thing. The quality would be very bad if you compressed it to VCD format.

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The trouble is, the rise of all-in-one suites eg Nero means that many non-tech PEOPLE nowadays say "I want to "burn" an (AVI, RMVB, MP4 etc) file to DVD" when what they really mean is "I want to convert an (AVI, RMVB, MP4 etc) file to mpeg2 format and then author a DVD and finally burn that DVD in a compliant fashion so it will play on my standalone DVD player from WalMart". When it all goes *censored*-up as we say in Europe, they post 500 line long Nero log files on forums and write "HELP PLZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!" in the subject line.
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