Playing VCD'S On A DVD Player

[Tarkus]

I've been researching this here but getting more confused. I don't own a DVD player yet. I have 2 VCD discs that I made. One is .mpg and the other is .avi. Simply put: will these play on a DVD player? Some, all, only certain ones? Should I just go to Best Buy and hand the salesperson the disks and say, "Show me a dvd player that will play these" Are there other formats besides ,mpg or .ava that will work? I hope there are simple answers. Thanks.

[caish5]

For videos to play on a standalone DVD player they must be in mpg format. They also must be burnt onto CD's as S/VCD's, not standard data discs. AVI's will not play on DVD players. The guides available on the left of the screen will help you create such discs.

Andy

[aguillon]

On top of which you must have a player capable of reading CDRs/CDRWs.

If the player cannot read CDRs, you can try burning your VCDs onto CDRWs - it sometimes works.