A few quick questions about LiteOn LVD-2002

[sushi_boy]

1. Does the LiteOn LVD-2002 play avi with forced subtites??

2. If I burn avis on a dvd-r will it play them??

[Macfixer01]

1. Does the LiteOn LVD-2002 play avi with forced subtites??

2. If I burn avis on a dvd-r will it play them??

I wouldn't ever count on LiteOn for anything, much less getting subtitles to work. Their promised firmware updates have been a no-show for a couple months now. The subtitle support in their buggy beta release 3.01 was very spotty. As I understand it if you had multiple movies on the same DVD, it would only play the first subtitle file it came to for all of them. There was a further limitation too with subtitles not being in sync and a length restriction on them which forced you to split up long movies.

Frankly if you haven't already bought a LiteOn, I'd stay away from them.

MacFixer01

[boroda]

Frankly if you haven't already bought a LiteOn, I'd stay away from them.

Well, I wouldn't go so far. The player itself is very solid, as a DVD player it's worth all the money you would pay for it. It plays most of my AVIs, most of the DivX4,5 and XviD, and many DivX3. It has at this point no subtitle support for MPEG4 whatever, but you can recode with permanent subtitles using Dr. Divx or VirtualDub.

The files which don't play properly can usually be recoded into DviX5 or XviD with hardly any quality loss.

The player does play multiple AVI files burnt into a single CD or DVD.

[absolutic]

The player does play multiple AVI files burnt into a single CD or DVD.[/quote]


SOMETIMES

[Silver Zero]

I always liked LiteOn, but maybe I'm just coming from a PC standpoint. I'm looking forward to getting an LVD2002 soon, and if I have to tinker to find out how to burn DVD's so they'll play multiple .avi's, then so be it. I ain't lazy.

[arana]

if you want subtitle support
stay away from it by all means

if you like to waste your time and money on new cds for reencoding
and permanently embedding subs to a divx file, then theres a good chance you have money, if so, get a kiss player you wonjt regret it as i did.