i need help getting a video burner. i dont have one of those dvd burning harware things and when i try to use windows media player a weird message comes up saying interface not registered. can anyone give me a link to a free burning software? or help me fix my windows media?

You might want to try:

NeroVision Express
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/NeroV...ss/1037929723/1

That's pretty much the only free one I could find that is relatively easy to use, and the only all-in-one, otherwise you would have to first convert your movies to DVD format using perhaps GX Transcoder and then burn the DVD formated files with say DVD Shrink or similar program. Hopefully NeroVision will work.

DVD hardware burning things??? I don't follow...you don't have a dvd/cd burner but you want burning software?
If you are trying to use burning plugin with WMP, then you will get a error message. I'm not sure what you are trying to accomplish.
Have you upgraded WMP and your operatiing system recently?
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/default.aspx

In terms of burning software, Nero and Roxio are the most popular (available as demos.
There are some free versions like Deep Burner or CDburnerXP.

This really sounds like you are saying that you don't have a DVD burner.

Do you have any kind of CD or DVD burner (CD-RW, DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD-+RW) installed in your computer??

If you don't have any of the DVD drives mensioned above the best you could do is a VCD. Personlly I haven't had much luck with making those, so I just burn the moives, that are under 700megs, to a normal CDR disk as normal data.

Mischcabob listed a few that I have used and they are ok. Here is a list from Snapfiles of Free CD/DVD burning software.

You can also try the trial of Ashampoo Burning Studio. I really like that one and it gives you alot of options to burn stuff. You may even be able to afford it. It's not expensive for how good it is.

Hope that helps a bit.