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Help unable to burn to DVD

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I am trying to burn a video file to DVD in a format which can be played on a domestic DVD player.
I have tried the .mvk and .meg format using Burn and a couple of trial versions of Wondershare DVD Creator and Cisdem DVD Burner.To do this I purchased a bog standard portable drive from Amazon.Each time the burning with error messages telling me the burn failed but no reason which was no help at all.I know it is not a lot to go on but can anyone help in anyway to suggest where I am going wrong.My machine is a MacBook Air M1 running OS Ventura 3.1
 
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In Burn, make sure you are doing the following:
In the Burn window, select "Video" along the top and "DVD Video" from the pop upon the right. Drop your video file onto the main part of the window. If the video is not mpeg, then you will be asked if you want to convert it to mpeg. Agree.

When that has finished, click "Burn"

Does that work?
 
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MightyGem said:
In Burn, make sure you are doing the following:
In the Burn window, select "Video" along the top and "DVD Video" from the pop upon the right. Drop your video file onto the main part of the window. If the video is not mpeg, then you will be asked if you want to convert it to mpeg. Agree.

When that has finished, click "Burn"

Does that work?
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That's what I used to do years ago and it worked just fine.

I;m not sure what a "bog standard portable drive" is in the OP's post - I assume it's a standard DVD burner.
 

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