there's no such thing as burning in dvd format it's all data data with the VOB file extensions are usually videos in MPEG2. There can be many on one disc, so how does a dvd player know how to play these. It's with the IFO and all other files that help dvd players recognize as data than can be played on those players so when burning, just burn as data and do not, I repeat, DO NOT burn in multisession and always make sure to close the disc (one of the ways dvdr's and cdr's differ) btw, when you re-encode your divx movies to a dvd format, make sure it includes numerous files; which are a few VOB's, the IFO, a TFO, and other files. If the encoder just spits out one file, then that would be strange *shrugs* I used to juse use dvd santa for re-encoding, but there's a 20% chance the sound and video may be either out of sync, the sound may be sampled too high, sound is missing, etcetc always expect issues