This will probably seem a stupid question to most of you, but I know nothing about computers and I'm trying my best lol.

I have BURNT a CD with video files from my mobile successfully, but its on a cdr which wont play through my dvd player.
I have dvdr blanks here, but do I need a special driver to burn dvd's? because the discs wont work in the driver I normally use to burn cd's through nero, or I'm doing something wrong?
I have a IDE-CD R/RW 12x8x32  and the other - a PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-117

Any help appreciated!!  You need a DVD Burner. It is a separate piece of hardware that looks like a CDRW but has it's own software and can do this. They start at about $40. They can also write CDRW's, but not the other way aroiund.  YEAH sorry to tell this but your PIONEER DVD-ROM DVD-117  is only a DVD-rom combo drive which means it might burn cd's and read DVD's but it wont burn dvd's ,, sorry youll need a DVD burner to do this and then some good software as well altho might u consider trying TMPGEnc encoder as it can create VCD's (video CD's) you might be able to view them then on your PC.

Also one more thing if your thinking of buying a dvd burner now, check your dvd player to see if it supports DVD-R's or DVD+R's or both before you burn any movies. if its an XBOX ,, well my unmodded XBOX READS DVD+R's hope thats some help or at least points you in the right direction for research. lol i spent days and days researching that stuff..

oh and looking at the speeds on your CD writer drive it is quite old..