I downloaded some mpeg video/audio streams and burned them on a dvd disk but my windows media player and quiktime player both say they cannot play them because they are not recognized or have a bad file name.
How can Iview these?

its a good idea to the play files from your hard disk first before you burn them to cd/dvd to see if they work. some video/audio files are corrupted especially on p2p networks as the sources arent always reliable. wmp plays mpeg files and nearly all audio streams so it sounds like this is the case.

Get VLC - (click on link) _ (choose nearest mirror site) as it's a very reliable player & has in-built codecs which WMP doesn't have. To see it's abilities see http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html

Does your dvd-video disk play on your set-top dvd player?

Did you burn them to dvd or cd? Did you burn a video-disk or a data disk with just the original files.

Are the file-names especially long or abbreviated. Do they have extensions or not?

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Lord of Rings I burned the streams with Nero as data on a DVD disk
because that is where I could find them.
I burned 11 different streams and none of them will play.
I tried VLC and it acts like it is running something but I get no video and no sound.
Maybe I burned them wrong but when I first burned them and loaded the disk while still running LimeWire it ran fine but the next day when I put the disk in without logging on to LimeWire, it would not run. It would not run after I logged on to LimeWire after that either...HELP

Are the original files still on your computer or did you delete them? Did you empty the recycle bin?

Try copying them back onto your computer & try playing them from there.

__________________
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -- Albert Einstein
640 K [of computer memory] ought be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein
When facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. -- Albert Einstein
Religion keeps the poor from murdering the rich. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The important thing is not to stop questioning. -- Albert Einstein
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein
"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians." -- Frank Zappa
"Tobacco is my favorite vegetable." / "May your sh*t come to life and kiss you on the face." / "Scientology, how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion?" / "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." / "There are three things that smell of fish. One of them is fish. The other two are growing on you!" / "Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny." / "The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese." / "Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over." / "The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else's life." / "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa
"The music business is a cruel and shallow trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson
The shy can light the dull dark room with life when their eyes mirror their inner sunrise - LOTR

Yes I deleted them.
I just have them on the dvd disk.
I want to know how to do it right next time if I can't recover these streams.

Sorry to bother you again but I just found out that some streams on disk will play but others will not.
I had them on two seperate disks and assumed that if the first one didn't play, that the other would not.
I'm not sure why one disk burned readable and the other one didn't, but it must be the files since even on the disk that does work, there are certain streams that still won't play right. Your VLC advise was right on though.

Thank's