QUOTE (justplainjohn @ Sep 10 2009, 07:02 PM)

myuguggi,
You can get videos off utube etc, maybe I shouldn't call them movies. The articles are in DivX format and Toshiba makes an inexpensive dvd player with DivX. Creator 9.05 does not burn the videos, it transfers the file from your HD to your dvd recorder, which in this case is called "MadDog" and the Creator 9.05 XE software
was supplied with it. If you have this Roxio program then you should have their icon on your lower right screen
justplainjohn
Ok, lets go thru this one step at a time.
The file that you are trying to burn to a disc needs to be burned as just data on the disc. It just happens to be that it is a video file that you are going to play in a player that can play the type of data file it is.
The Roxio version you have (Easy Media Creator 9 XE) is a stripped down version that came with that Mad Dog drive.
Included in that EMC 9 XE
suite of apps is an application named Drag-to-Disc, which is the window (what you called an icon) that resides in the lower right hand side of your screen. That particular app, as I noted in my earlier post, is the
worst way to try to burn anything to a disc. You need to stop using that part of the EMC 9 XE suite for what you are trying to do.
It's my recommendation that you actually uninstall that particular part of the EMC 9 XE suite. In your Windows Control Panel, in Add/Remove Programs, there should be a listing for Roxio Drag-to-Disc (or something similar). You would select it and uninstall that particular item.
Now to how you should be burning the disc.
On your desktop there should be an icon that is round with a black flame in the middle. It will be either an Orange or a Blue circle. It will be labeled something like Roxio Easy Media Creator 9. Double click on that to open up the EMC 9 XE suite.
On the left hand side there will be a section named Data. Click on that and one of the choices will be Data Disc. Click on that.
Add your file (the divx one you are trying to burn) to the project, put a
blank disc into the drive, and click on the burn button icon in the lower right corner. When done, it should work in your set top dvd player.
If you are using RW (re-writable and erasable) discs, and you want to re-use the one you made, you'll have to erase it first. That function would be under Tools section. You will have to have uninstalled the Drag-to-Disc app first. You will also have to choose the Full Erase option
not the Quick erase option.