I have a Dell purchased 2 years ago. I have been able to burn a CD in the
past. How would I find out if the hard drive id formatted in NTFS or FAT32?
Can one change this? I just do not have the DV-AVI option. There has to be a
way to get around this.

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> You're half way there:
>
> After clicking on Save to My Computer you should get the screen which asks
> for File Name and Location
>
> Then you click on Next...
>
> Put the check mark in Other Settings.... and use the drop down menu.... It
> should start with:
>
> Video for Pocket PC (three different options) and continue on from there...
>
> After the High Quality Video, you get the Video for Local Playback options,
> then Video for LAN, Video for Broadband and further down still, DV-AVI.
>
> Just a side note, your hard drive is formatted in NTFS, yes, and not FAT32?
> If you are still in FAT32 you cannot save a file larger than 4gb and
> therefore, since DV-AVI is going to be in the region of 12gb per hour, you
> may not have the option.
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...october01.mspx
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
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>
>
> "Ram" <Ram@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:EED90591-D1B3-4638-A551-48BADEED5CD5@microsoft.com...
> > Every suggestion received tells me what I have done so far. This is the
> > problem. I want to save my movie. I enter the name and location. Under
> > other
> > settings the drop off window does not have the DV-AVI option. I have other
> > options which I do not know what they mean. Question is where is my
> > DV-AVI?
> > and what are the meanings of the following choices under other:
> > Vido for local Player (2.1 and 1.5mbps.
> > VideoLAN (1.0 and 768 )
> > Video broad band
> > Video local playback 2.1 and 1.5?
>
>
>