Question before I purchase my Umax/Yamada Divx player

[Joecov]

Will avi's burnt directly to DVDR/CDR play on a standalone Divx player? I am about purchase the latest Yamada player and not sure if its this straight forward. After I have merged seperate avi's I want burn it onto one dvd instead of having 2 seperate discs.

Anyone? (this maybe in the wrong section)

cheers!

[Gazorgan]

In theory, yes. In reality? Well, there's a world of differences in MPEG4's. You can go from old DivX 3.11 low motion codec under-bitrated crap to 2.1 GB DivX 5.10 OMFG impressive 720x40 encodes. Don't expect the palyer to treat each the same.

Most DivX are made to fit a disk, not give you DVD Quality. Also, a lot of DivX have odd resolutions and odd framerates, don't expect the player to deal with that very well. Certain advanced MPEG4 features probably won't be supported untilthe future, if at all.

Basically you will want to re-encode your DVD's to some standard DivX resolution/bitrate. To keep DVD quality, you can expect to get 2-3 movies per DVD. But, for a 3 hour action flick on a DVD9, don't bother, just re-encode it to 1 DVD.

[Joecov]

Thanks, what format will the avi need to be burnt as? in nero for example, a normal cd with data...?? or does it need to burnt as a different format?

cheers

[zhnujm]

Just burn as ISO data dvd/cd. The player doesnt like UDF Discs.