Yet another PC help thread. When my PC sits idle for a period, I'll return to it and launch Firefox. The app opens just fine. Everything on the PC runs fine. Trouble is, Firefox (or IE, for that matter) won't load the page. It'll just say "Done" at the bottom, but no amount of refreshing or closing or opening of the app does any good and I have to restart the computer to be able to get online. The result is the same if I just leave Firefox open and come back to it an hour or two later. I've had a LOT more problematic issues. This one is just....annoying. Various SpyWare, AdWare, MalWare apps pick up nothing. I ran HijackThis and posted the log on a HJT forum, and nothing was found. Clearing out the cache and any temporary files also does nothing, and I haven't manipulated any of the connection options in the browser or control panel, either. Any idea what gives? Also: how do I burn a DVD to play in a standard DVD player? Can I just use Windows Media Player, or do I need to get/buy a different program? I've Googled for information on this, but I'm no techie and I just wound up confusing myself. I don't want to do anything other than clear some movies off my HD so I can watch them on my TV, so I'd rather not have to actually buy a program as I don't want to do anything special. Thanks as always.
the DVD Player will play any data on the DVD, so as long as the player has the decoder or software to read the data on that DVD. In order to make movies, you need an authoring program. I can think of a few right now, but they are expensive. I don't know too much of any free ones out there. If you use Windows Movie maker, there is an option to output your movie to a DVD, although it has to have an encoder. My machine came with Roxio DVD Solutions for free, so it makes the movie, then it encodes it onto a DVD with that software. The data they put on the DVD is two folders, one for AUDIO and another for VIDEO, that the DVD player will read. Among some of these are Roxio's VideoWave, NeroVision Express (free with the low-end version). Go to CNET.com and search for "DVD Authoring" and "free" .
no idea what's going on with firefox.. as for the DVDs, Windows Media Player isn't able to burn DVDs itself, so you need a separate program to burn your movie files (.avi, .mpeg, .mov, etc.). There are plenty of free ones online, search around download.com for some. I use the software that came with my DVD burner since it was not part of the computer at first - it came with Nero 6 which lets you do a whole bunch of things to DVDs and CDs. A standard DVD player should take any DVD, just as long as you don't burn the movie file onto the DVD and treat it as a data file (ie. copy and paste the .mpeg file into the default windows "blank dvd" view)
Thanks for the responses. I just realized I have InterVideoWinDVD or some such application. I'll play around with that. Anyone with any thoughts on the FireFox issue?
