Hi guys and gals,

I'm new here, and to be honest, quite desperate. My girl wants her dad's home videos on DVD as a playable movie by the end of this week to give to him for Christmas. I will be extremely appreciative of anyone who can help me out!!!

The story is, using a firewire cable I have copied all the videos to my computer and each video now sits on my hard drive as a Winamp media file.
I have Nero Smartstart and I go into the 'Copy and back-up' section, 'Burn image to disc', click on the 'DVD-Video Files' option, try to open up one of my files and get the message "Unexpected File Format". If I just go straght into the 'DVD-Video Files' and try to add a file, I get the message 'No compatible file found'.

Now, I suspect that I cannot burn a Winamp file onto a blank DVD as a watchable movie on a DVD player. Is this correct, and if so what can I do about it? Is there any way I can get all these files to be able to be burnt to DVD so that we can watch them on the DVD in the DVD player?

I have all the data files on DVD so we can watch on the PC as a video file, but I just want it like a normal full-length DVD. Can anyone help me out???

Thanks guys,

Geoff

I was not aware that WinAmp could import DV into its own format. How did you import the video (what program)? If Nero does not like it, and that is what you plan on using to burn, you can try to convert it to a file that Nero will accept.
Look here.
http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=TMPGEnc
Check the guides for how to do it. It would be wise to see just what you have as far as the video files you made. Check the filename and the extension. It could be that you have just setup the OS to use Winamp as the player so it shows they are Winamp files when you open the folder.

yeah, there's no such thing as a "winamp" media file. winamp is just the player you're using to view the video. you'll have to identify what type of video it actually is (or at least identify the file extension) before you can convert it into dvd-compatible video.