philips dvp642

[maxone]

can the philips dvp642 play wmv files, and also can it play nero digital?

thanks,

[Bodyslide]

I read in other forums that some people got certain versions to play wmv files.

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/4/82733

[pjcwu256]

It played wmv files.

[thedivxkid]

to my knowledge it doens't play WMV

and theorhetically it could play nero digital video bitstreams if you were to encode them with the right settings and put the video bitstream with an mp3 audio stream into an avi file.

thekid...

[tacoman97x]

My phillips recognizes .wmv files with a wmv video icon, BUT WILL NOT play them when selected... Might have to do with microsoft not letting phillips use the codec on there players, which wouldn't make any sense because there are many .wma file dvd players out there.. and .wma is franchised by Microsoft....

[thedivxkid]

trust me its not a matter of MS not letting them use their codec.

MS is paying hardware manufacturers to get support for their format. Its a much more processor intensive codec/container and thus many low cost chips can't handle the format.

thekid...

[giannid]

I have recoded a wmv file using nerovision3 to svcd (mpeg2) and then used autoGk to recode it back to .avi. The .avi plays in the dvp642, but the original .wmv wouldn't.

[LisaB]

The 642 will play a wmv, but only if the wmv uses the Microsoft Mpeg4v3 codec. Most newer wmv's out there, however, use wmv codec, and won't play.

[Zisguy1]

I have recoded a wmv file using nerovision3 to svcd (mpeg2) and then used autoGk to recode it back to .avi. The .avi plays in the dvp642, but the original .wmv wouldn't.

Just FYI, this can be done a lot more easily with AVISynth and VirtualDub(Mod)... in a single step. Won't work with "DRM-enabled" .wmv's tho (and won't transcode the audio, but this could be done separately somehow).

[DarrellS]

>>Just FYI, this can be done a lot more easily with AVISynth and VirtualDub(Mod)... in a single step.<<

I have a few programs that will handle WMV (VideoEditMagic, MGI Videowave III if I rename to AVI) but the easiest way I have found is to drag the file into TMPGEnc. If I need to edit them afterwards, I'll use Virtualdub but as for re-encoding them to AVI, that can be done right inside TMPGEnc.

[DereX888]

I know nothing about WMV/ASF (and I don't want to know anything about it, I despise this format).

Once by mistake I discovered my dvp642 playing some .asf file that was on a disc. Later I tested about 30-40 various resolution wmv/asf files (just get porn samples from various sites ) and only a handful of them played.
I figured its depends on a wmv/asf settings used during encoding, perhaps on a codec version (as someone said earlier - probably only the older versions would play.

And lets not forget that divx3 is just rebadged early beta of microsoft's mpeg-4 codec (with uncapped encoding bitrate), so Im sure some mpeg-4 compliant, ISO- or ITU- compatible versions of wmv/asf must be out there.

msoft as mpeg-4 pioneer heh, doesnt it sound weird?

[DarrellS]

>>I know nothing about WMV/ASF (and I don't want to know anything about it, I despise this format).<<

While I agree that all ASF files suck and most WMV files suck, there are some Windows Media 9 files floating around on the internet that don't look too bad.

>>Once by mistake I discovered my dvp642 playing some .asf file that was on a disc. Later I tested about 30-40 various resolution wmv/asf files (just get porn samples from various sites ) and only a handful of them played.<<

I don't have any files on CD to see if they work or not. All of the ASF/WMV files that I've kept, I've converted to DivX. If I change the extension to .avi, I can get Videowave to read the asf files and some of the wmv files but like most editing programs, it refuses to open a microsoft file with an asf or wmv extension.

BTW, I finally found a Philips DVP642 at CompUSA (everywhere else I went that said they had them, had none) and I have to say that I am very pleased. There is a slight sizing problem on some of the files where either the left side of the movie doesn't go all the way to the edge or the bottom of the movie is slightly cut off but that probably has to do with the resolution of the movies I made. I'll have to figure that out in future encodings but some of the high quality DivX that I've found or have made look pretty darned good. Not as good as a DVD but better than a VHS tape..