Burn AVI's on DVD To Watch On Computer Only

[kyle85]

I have 10 .avi videos that I burned on a DVD using Nero -> Data DVD. After burning them, the files on the DVD did not have the .avi extension, and were just regular files named "File1", "File2" and so on. I could use the Open With option on the context menu to open them with a video player, but I don't understand why it did this.

I have a DVD burner, but do not want to go through the "convert AVI's to DVD format" process. I only want to watch them as AVI's on my computer as if I burned them on a CD-R. How can I burn the AVI's this way?

[ROF]

You must have done something wrong. Burning Data DVDs does not change or remove the file extensions. The only thing it does do is change the files to read-only which can be important to know when backing up and restoring document files.

[Krispy Kritter]

It's no different that burning files to CDR. Your software should burn all the files directly to the dvd without changing anything. All names and extensions will remain the same.

[redwudz]

Did you uncheck 'Hide extensions for known filetypes' in your folder options? Go to any folder>'Tools>Folder Options>View' and uncheck it and the extensions should be visible.

The second possibility is that the .avi extension has not been assigned to a player or program. You can also find that out in the next column over from 'View' in Folder options, 'File Types'. Just scroll down to see what program .avi is associated with and change if needed. Then when you click on a .avi file, it should open with that program or player.

And welcome to our forums.

[kyle85]

Thank you all for replying.

AVI files are assigned to Media Player Classic and settings are configured to show all file extensions.

I checked the DVD disk again, and they are actually named "10 Files", "10 Files2", 10 Files3" and so on. There are 10 AVI files, and 1 .TXT file. The text document has its' original name and extension.

If anybody can suggest anything else, please reply. Otherwise I'll just forget about it and open it manually when I want to watch them.

Thanks again!

[Cornucopia]

Something happened within Nero in the filename conversion (edit: translation).

I say conversion, because you're going from a FAT16/FAT32/NTFS drive to a ISO9660/UDF disc. There WILL be conversion issues, some minor, occasionally some major.

If, for example, you had files like:

10Files____TheQuickBrownFoxJumpedOverTheLazyDog.av i
-and-
10Files____AllGoodMenShouldComeToTheAidOfTheirCoun try.avi
-etc.,

and these were on an NTFS drive,

The would look like this on ISO9660:

10FILES_.___
10FILES2.___

etc.,

or maybe:

10FILES1.AVI
10FILES2.AVI

unless you're doing ISO9660 Level2, or UDF, in which case it might look right. But if the original filenames were longer or more loosely typed than those systems allow, there will have to be some translation going on before burning.

How to get around this:

Rename them before opening up Nero. Something short and sweet to make it easy even for ISO9660 Level 1 (8.3 SFN's).

Scott