I need to burn avi videos onto a dvd to play on my standalone player

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For years I have been converting my avi files to DVD files (BUP, IFO and VOB files) because my standalone player only played DVD files. Now, I just bought a new player that will play DIVX, so how can I burn a compilation of say 10 avi files onto a DVD to watch on my standalone without any conversion?

By the way, I did check the forums and couldn't find any reliable posts, so that's why I'm posting!! Thanks!

[LJB]

If you don't need to convert, then just put the avi files in a folder and burn with imgburn.

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If you don't need to convert, then just put the avi files in a folder and burn with imgburn.

LJB, you are a GENIUS!!!!!!!!! worked like a charm!! I actually thought I had imgburn because I have Decrypter and I thought it was bundled with it. Anyhow I burned them, but I was thinking something... is it possible to add chapters of sorts such as with a dvd file, because I have like 15 avis back to back and I am guessing they will play without stopping and no way to jump forward or backward to a specific avi unless I use the rewind feature, and that could take days!! If you know of a way to do this with the avi files on the DVD that would be great. We could save a lot of money and time in burning avis with chapter separations instead of converting and wasting 1 DVD for maybe a couple movies or such. Any ideas would be great!! Thanks.

[guns1inger]

You can add chapters and menus, however

1. They must be authored using a divx authoring tool
2. They must be in the .divx container
3. The menus and chapters can only be seen/used on specialist software players and Divx Ultra certified players.

If you are like the rest of us, you will just have to live with it.

[somebodeez]

...because I have like 15 avis back to back and I am guessing they will play without stopping and no way to jump forward or backward to a specific avi unless I use the rewind feature, and that could take days!!

I don't know which player you have but on mine, to pick a specific AVI I use the player's menu feature and scroll to the AVI that I want and select it.
To skip to the next one, I just use the skip button on the remote.

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...because I have like 15 avis back to back and I am guessing they will play without stopping and no way to jump forward or backward to a specific avi unless I use the rewind feature, and that could take days!!

I don't know which player you have but on mine, to pick a specific AVI I use the player's menu feature and scroll to the AVI that I want and select it.
To skip to the next one, I just use the skip button on the remote.

I actually didn't take the time to check after I had burned the DVD to see if the menu option worked, because the disc started playing right away when I popped it in with no menu, so I figured it didn't have that option. To my surprise, it's as you described.

Thanks both of you for the fantastic help!! Cheers!

[ConverterCrazy]

The standalone DVD Player plays my AVI videos, but doesn't show subtitles in SRT format!

I tried SubEdit238 and converted SRT to SUB/IDX format but without any success.

How can I view accompanying subtitles? Please be descriptive (non-technical) in your suggestion.
Sorry and thanks.

[gonwk]

Hi ConverterCrazy,

1) Your AVI and SRT names must be IDENTICAL. For example Drangon.avi & Dragon.srt. Any deviation and your are out of luck!

2) Put your AVI and SRT files into one folder. Create a Folder called DRAGON and put your AVI & SRT in there.

3) Now try viewing your movie Dragon.avi on your dvd player ... it should be there.

BTW, what is your dvd player Model & Brand?

Post back your result for the next person!

Thanks,

G!

[ConverterCrazy]

Thanks gonwk.

The DVD player make is Videocon -- 5 years old but fully functional. Will post feedback ASAP.

[manono]

The subs may not play automatically. You might have to turn them on using the subtitle button on the remote control.

[ConverterCrazy]

Thanks, manano. I'll try your suggestion as well. Pl see my reply below.

@gonwk

Thanks once again.

The file names were not Identical! But, making them identical didn't work in my case. I had to insert spaces in the file name which I had removed earlier.

Earlier, the file names read like singertitlegenre.AVI and singertitlegenreEng.SRT from singer_title_genre.AVI and singer_title_genre_Eng.SRT.

It is a 4 minute song in some foreign language. I had the English translation of the lyric and I made subtitles from the text after spending a lot of time in fixing timings.