Playing DivX movies on my DVD player

[drksi99]

I have a phillips DVD recorder with Divx capabilities....

How do I burn the avi file to play on my dvd player?

thanks!

[mats.hogberg]

As data disk.

/Mats

[FulciLives]

I think you have to burn as ISO+UDF but I use NERO EXPRESS for this (using the CD DATA DISC or DVD DATA DISC options) and it works without really telling you HOW it is burning but other people have said if you are using something else to do it as ISO+UDF or something like that.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[redwudz]

You also may want to make sure they are compatible with a Divx player. AVI ReComp can fix ones that won't properly play. Or several programs like avi.NET or AutoGK can encode to a compatible format.

[drksi99]

I think you have to burn as ISO+UDF but I use NERO EXPRESS for this (using the CD DATA DISC or DVD DATA DISC options) and it works without really telling you HOW it is burning but other people have said if you are using something else to do it as ISO+UDF or something like that.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

thanks for the replies guys! awesome site and awesome help!

I will be using Nero 7 myself (I think it should have a DVD DATA option)
So you are saying to just burn it using the DVD DATA option? Is there a subsection or just click DVD DATA and select the file?

[guns1inger]

Just DVD data. Be aware - you cannot use multi-sessions discs in most players, so don't burn one movie now, then add another later. If you are planning on burning several movies to a disc, make sure you have them all and can burn them in one hit.

[FulciLives]

I have Nero 7 Ultra Edition myself and I just pick the Nero Express option which allows you to pick DATA CD or DATA DVD and that really is pretty much it.

The only change I make is to set the recording speed to 6x because I don't like burning a DVD faster than that but that's just me perhaps. Different media on different burners ... to each his own when it comes to burning speed.

I don't like Nero for DVD Video burning but for DVD Data or CD Data ... well it does that A-OK.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[vancouverbc]

I guess this explains why my avi file does not play on my dvd player. I burned it as a video disk . Why would you burn it as a data disk? I guess I dont understand this at all.

[mats.hogberg]

Video disk is VCD or SVCD or DVD. Those are mpg formats, so your AVI has to be converted and authored. Even if Nero claims to be able to do that, it's one of the worst solutions for it. We don't want that - we want your AVIs as files - which means a data disk.

/Mats

[handyguy]

What model player?

If we knew that we would know what to answer.

Be sure to use short file names if you can with a philips.

[vancouverbc]

Thanks, guys. I burned it as a data disk and it now works on my dvd player.

My player is a DAENYX DV2001. It is DVDx certified and people on the net say it will play anything.

[insync44]

It is also one of the few Players that can play multisession recordings. For $29.99 from ToysRUs its a real good Player.