AVI playing

[CHayes1126]

Do you think it will ever be possible to play AVI files on a standalone DVD player? Why didnt they make DVD players in AVI format in the first place? Good quality, smaller size.

[Greg12]

AVI takes in alot.

True AVI files are terrible for DVD players, they are simply to big, you'd only get like 5 minutes or so on a CD.


DIVX files, well DIVX is a hack of MS_MPEG4 so MS wouldnk't like that very much.

Other compressions and codecs, you have to pay royalities on.

[Greg12]

Their is a particular Asian model DVD player, it has a flashable codec rom, it can play DIVX.

I think if you had a rom programmer, you could make a divx player.

[Nelson37]

If you mean true AVI files, the Apex 500WM, or at least some of them, can. Divx file playing is theoretically possible, but the MS problem looms preventing mass manufacture. Now, when Microsoft makes or designs the chip to do it, it probably won't play Divx, but perhaps could be circumvented in some way. We can only hope.

An alternative is a cheap old computer with a Hollywood Plus or Creative MPG2 decoder card, and the Divx player that supports the card.

I haven't tried them with Divx but with a card, a Pentiom 166 w/16MB ram will play DVD's and SVCD's. Computer from junk parts, card was $65.00, has DTS out, video.

[pmcx9]

I have a bookPC http://www.spot-light.virgin-lands.co.uk/bookpc.html

It is superb for playing divx movies straight to my TV.