I am trying to burn a DVD from two movies that I have downloaded onto my computer. Both movies work fine on the computer.

When trying to burn the disk, the following error message appears:

"...cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again."

Well, needless to say, I don't even know what a Codec is, so downloading the proper one and applying it to these movies is out of the question.

Any help would be appreciated.

google codecs.......I'm sure they are available for download. I seem to recall that the codec required may be identifiable somehow with windows.

I think I found the problem.

I'll report back later.

did you download them as ISO or .ts??? if its .ts, then you'll need to create an image so you can burn it. If you burn it as a .ts, then it'll never play on your dvd player.

Stogeeboy,

Blue.

No, red.

Aw heck, make it 12.

tail........codec is a conjunction of the words code and decode. In other words....software to code and decode the data to video. There are several programs out there that will burn a DVD from any vid file. Just search around. I am not sure which is the best one right now......there are so many.