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  1. 16th Feb 2002 13:07 #1
    RappWizard
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    I have just started looking at DVD RW burners such as HP, Pioneer or Philips. I have previously played around with creating VCD's by converting AVI files to MPEG of footage from my digital cam. Wit this first generation of DVD burners can you burn a DVD from an AVI file that you can play on your stand alone DVD player. I recognize there are compatability problems with certain DVD players. I can deal with that. I just want to know whether you still have to go through the conversion process on TEMPEnc for example. Thanks for any feedback you can give me.
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  2. 16th Feb 2002 16:38 #2
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    Help anyone care to reply?
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  3. 16th Feb 2002 19:46 #3
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    I'll try and reply as best I can.
    Bear in mind that this is advice from a newbie, and may be completely untrue (and anybody here who knows better is welcome to contradict me).
    AFAIK, you cannot burn a .avi file driectly to a DVR-R, DVD+RW or whatever and expect a stand-alone to play it. It must first be converted to MPEG 2. The thing is that some of the DVD-Authoring programs will convert it for you. So whereas you may not have to use TMPEnc, the conversion process stil takes place (and a fair deal of time).

    Right, guys?
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