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  • GALE
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    • Dec 2003
    • 92
    #1

    AVI playback

    What stops an avi file (video file) fom playing on a tv screen via your dvd and yet you can view same over your pc. Thanks.
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    • LT. Columbo
      Demigod of Digital Video
      • Nov 2004
      • 10671
      #2
      are you talking about a skipping disc? is this an actual avi (not converted to dvd)?
      "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
      Columbo moments...
      "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
      "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
             (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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        • GALE
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          • Dec 2003
          • 92
          #3
          You lost me on that "skipping disc". I downloaded an avi file which I watched on my pc but was curious as to why it needed to be authored before I could watch it on a tv screen.

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            • UncasMS
              Super Moderator
              • Nov 2001
              • 9047
              #4
              unless your dvd palyer can play mpeg-4/avi/divx/xvid you will have to convert the file to vcd/svcd/dvd

              are you familair with this?

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                • GALE
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                  • Dec 2003
                  • 92
                  #5
                  Am getting familiar the hard way. Downloaded an avi movie and it played fine. Converted same to dvd format and no audio, which I read that there are ways to extract the audio fom the avi file. But I guess more than anything I figured there had to be a dvd player that would play avi files. Do not know what they would be called though.

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                    • LT. Columbo
                      Demigod of Digital Video
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 10671
                      #6
                      has to be a player that supports divx, if yours isn't one, you need to convert it.
                      Last edited by LT. Columbo; 25 Feb 2006, 12:13 PM.
                      "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                      Columbo moments...
                      "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                      "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                                             (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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                        • GALE
                          Member
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                          • Dec 2003
                          • 92
                          #7
                          "....if your isn't one, you need to convert it."
                          Where could I read on this?

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                            • LT. Columbo
                              Demigod of Digital Video
                              • Nov 2004
                              • 10671
                              #8
                              READ THIS FIRST: Authoring & Editing - FAQ and Guides Index - Digital Video Forums
                              http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=59845
                              Talk about DVD authoring and editing, including support tools such as PgcEdit, MenuShrink...
                              "One day men will look back and say I gave birth to the 20th Century". Jack The Ripper - 1888
                              Columbo moments...
                              "Double Shock" "The Greenhouse Jungle" "Swan Song" FORUM RULES
                              "You try to contrive a perfect alibi, and it's your perfect alibi that's gonna hang ya."
                                                             (An Exercise In Fatality, 1974)

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                                • UncasMS
                                  Super Moderator
                                  • Nov 2001
                                  • 9047
                                  #9
                                  Originally Posted by GALE
                                  "....if your isn't one, you need to convert it."
                                  Where could I read on this?
                                  your player would have something like DIVX / XVID / MPEG-4 printed on it in almost any case

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