Solved TV will not play DVD

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mike13 said:
Hi PeterOz. Yes, I can afford to burn another disc. . I will try a bit later. Thanks for the suggestion.
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Bruce said:
I don't intentionally mean to bring up the whole "Welcome to the 21st centaury" thing again, but....

This is more of a looking forward and eliminating the current hurdle - is it a smart TV, that is. web connected?
I went back through the posts, using 'boy look' mode, and couldn't find if you had given us the make/model of the TV.

If it is smart, wouldn't it be nice to store your digital media in the cloud (yes yes I know) and have the TV access it that way.
And the cloud doesn't have to be Dropbox, OneDrive or similar, it could be as in my case, my Network Attached Storage box which my TV can access.
Even my TP-Link Archer modem/router has a built-in media library, shared network feature.
Just saying... offering alternatives - don't shoot the messenger! :)
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Hi Bruce. Yes, it is a smart TV. Only a few months old. LG OLED 52 inch. And it is connected to the internet. You mean I might be able to access those videos
that are on my ICloud, right from my TV, without having to bother to burn discs ??
 
Just checking we are using the same terminology, people throw around names and sometimes use the wrong ones.

When use say ICLOUD are you referring to your cloud storage space using your Apple account?
 
Bruce said:
Just checking we are using the same terminology, people throw around names and sometimes use the wrong ones.

When use say ICLOUD are you referring to your cloud storage space using your Apple account?
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Yes.
 
PeterOz said:
Get a DVD that you have made and put it in the computer
Open the dvd with explorer and see what the file format is.

Can you afford to burn 1 more disc?
Use VLC player and convert to MPEG-2 +MPGA(TS)
From what I can see Nero burns MPEG2
and I found this on your dvd player. It has MPEG2

I cannot test this. I tried and have found out that my DVD player no longer works
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PeterOz, i do not have those options when I open VLC. The options I have that sTart with a "M" are MPEG-TS, MPEG-PS, MPEG-1, MJPEG, MP4/MOV
 
What version of vlc do you have ? Click on Help>About
I am using 3.0.17.4
Which has Video-Mpeg-2 + MPGA (TS)
and I just notice Mpeg4 Tv Device 720p and Mpeg4 Tv Device 1080p

I am not 100% sure if was you have in you list is compatible or not.
What I went from what the spec sheet in Post #18 shows
Mpeg-2.webp

Mpeg -2 at the top of the List
Mpeg 4 at the bottom. I do not know if Mpeg4 is backward compatible with Mpeg-2
You could always convert to both options and burn bot to the 1 disc.
 
Hi Guys, Here is an update to a few of your questions. I dug out a old DVD I made years ago. It is labeled, UDF. The video I burned using the Windows feature is also labeled UDF. The video I burned with Nero Burning Rom is labeled CDFS. The only one that plays in my JVC recorder is the one I made years ago, labeled UDF. Do not know why the one I made with Windows labeled UDF does not play. Also my VLC version is 3.0.20 Thanks to Bruce and PeterOz for all your help and suggestions, but I do not want to waste any more of your time. Something is going on here, that I do nt have time to research. For example I can not duplicate burning the original video using Nero like I did at the beginning. Nero does not even recognize the video, unless I tell it to look at "ALL " and then it sees it, but I can not drag it over to burn it to a DVD . As I said earlier, I removed Nero and reinstalled it, but no difference. Since I had no trouble copying the video to a jump drive, and I can plug it in the back of the TV, and it plays no problem, maybe I need to graduate one step up the digital age. " Bruce " Thanks again, guys, much appreciated.
 
We really are happy to help. (y)
And yes, it is annoying that we/you couldn't get working what you know you have successfully done in the past, but part of me is guiltily glad as well, if for no other reason then eventually, you WILL of had to move away from DVD's.

Happy USB'ing!
 
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