can someone link me to a post or tell me how to make my own dvd's that will work on the z2? i tried ripping some tv shows off my media center into dvd format but they wont play, they look like they are about to play then they dont thanks!

Can you play any copied DVD's? I never tried playing the media center created DVD's. I play copied DVD's in there all the time. It should play DVD's on recordable media. So it's either the media itself, or the way the DVD was authored (by the media center).

So make a copy of one of your DVDs on the same brand media, play that. Does that work? If not it's the media. If it plays it might be how media center authors the video. You could take the video files right out of the storage directory and reencode it with TMPGENC and author it with TMPG Author. I really like those for authoring videos. Tutorials for this stuff is here: http://www.videohelp.com/

no i can play a copied dvd, but i want to take tv shows or porn or whatever and re rip it to dvd then play it.... any special reccomended program for that?

ConvertXtoDVD

the best ive found

no i can play a copied dvd, but i want to take tv shows or porn or whatever and re rip it to dvd then play it.... any special reccomended program for that?

I really like TMPGENC

http://www.tmpgenc.net/en/index.html

To convert

And I use TMPGENC DVD author

http://tmpgenc.pegasys-inc.com/en/product/tda3.html

For authoring dvd's.

There are TONS of these out there. Nero does it, I have used Ulead. Check video help and see what the reviews are for each program.

hottwhyrd's recommendation is VERY highly rated but I have never used it

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ConvertXtoDVD

I will have to try it some time. It's even higher than TMPGENC

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/TMPGEnc_DVD_Author

hottwhyrd, thanks for the tip.