.avi files on DVD player

I want to take the .avi movie files from my digital camera, burn them
onto a DVD and play the DVD in a standard DVD player. Is this
possible? I can't seem to find a straight forward answer and it's
driving me crazy! Thanks so much.

wrote:
I want to take the .avi movie files from my digital camera, burn them
onto a DVD and play the DVD in a standard DVD player. Is this
possible? I can't seem to find a straight forward answer and it's
driving me crazy! Thanks so much.

I used CyberLink PowerProducer 2 Gold successfully for this purpose. It
came bundled with my LG CD/DVD burner. The .avi clips were from my Canon
A95.

On 30 May 2006 16:32:24 -0700, wrote:

I want to take the .avi movie files from my digital camera, burn them
onto a DVD and play the DVD in a standard DVD player. Is this
possible? I can't seem to find a straight forward answer and it's
driving me crazy! Thanks so much.

The straight answer is: no, unless the player will play them; few do.
You'll need to use some sort of software to turn the .avi file into
DVD video (MPEG, usually) then burn to a DVD so the player can read
it.
Easiest way to do this is to get one or another of the many video
editing packages.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

Bill Funk wrote:
On 30 May 2006 16:32:24 -0700, wrote:


I want to take the .avi movie files from my digital camera, burn them
onto a DVD and play the DVD in a standard DVD player. Is this
possible? I can't seem to find a straight forward answer and it's
driving me crazy! Thanks so much.


The straight answer is: no, unless the player will play them; few do.
You'll need to use some sort of software to turn the .avi file into
DVD video (MPEG, usually) then burn to a DVD so the player can read
it.
Easiest way to do this is to get one or another of the many video
editing packages.

Not "MPEG, usually"... MPEG, always. If they're small enough, you can
convert to MPEG-1 at 352x240 resolution, 29.97Hz framerate, and burn to
VideoCD format on a standard CD-R (up to about 70 minutes). DVD Video
standard is MPEG-2. In either case, you can't just drop the files on a
disc; the disc has to be burned in the proper format by the proper software.

I use NeroVision Express.


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Use Nero 6.0x, choose DVD as the media in the top center of the window.

Find the icon that looks like film material, then choose to create your own
video. It opens up a screen "explorer window type", find the avi file you
are trying to view. What you will end up doing is changing the avi to a DVD
type of file the player can read.

There are lots of steps, but use help in nero about making your own video
and it will make sense as you read. Try it on some downloaded avi file a
few times so you don't screw up your original.

I do it all the time. Don't have any other programs running, it hogs all
the processor, and it's better if you have a dual core machine with at least
2GB's of system memory.

Old Man River.


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On 30 May 2006 16:32:24 -0700, wrote:

I want to take the .avi movie files from my digital camera, burn them
onto a DVD and play the DVD in a standard DVD player. Is this
possible? I can't seem to find a straight forward answer and it's
driving me crazy! Thanks so much.

The straight answer is: no, unless the player will play them; few do.
You'll need to use some sort of software to turn the .avi file into
DVD video (MPEG, usually) then burn to a DVD so the player can read
it.
Easiest way to do this is to get one or another of the many video
editing packages.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

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I want to take the .avi movie files from my digital camera, burn them
onto a DVD and play the DVD in a standard DVD player. Is this
possible? I can't seem to find a straight forward answer and it's
driving me crazy! Thanks so much.

I recently bought an "S&V 228" DVD player in my local supermarket for
NZ$80 (US$51). As well as normal DVDs (region free) and VCDs it can
play MPEG1, MPEG2 and MPEG4/Divx/Xvid files off ordinary CDs and DVDs,
or off various memory cards (Compact Flash, Memory Stick, Secure Digital
....), or via a USB port on the front panel off USB mass storage devices
(card readers, cameras, iPods, hard disks ...). It gives you a
windows-like file browser from which you can select movie files (or MP3s
or jpegs) on whatever media type you put into it.

It also has composite, S-video and component video out, and stereo,
decoded 5.1, and optical audio out.

Just last night I downloaded an 800 MB Xvid .avi file of last weekend's
Monaco F1 race off the net, put it on the Compact Fash card from my
Nikon D70s, popped it in the card reader slot of the DVD player and
watched it on my TV from the comfort of my couch.

Very convenient.


A similar model is reviewed here (with screen shots):

http://www.murraymoffatt.com/other-s-and-v-dvd.html

No doubt there are others.

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