Burning AVI to DVD - AVI not viewable

[Budfudder]

I regularly burn AVI files direct to DVD as data files - our DVD player will read these and play the AVI quite happily. It allows me to get lots more video onto a DVD than if I changed the AVIs into DVD format first. But I've recently got a few AVIs that play fine on my laptop or my desktop - but when I burn them to DVD, they don't play properly on my DVD player. The sound works fine, but the video doesn't - It will show a frame (while the audio is going fine in the background) for 5-10 seconds, then leap to another frame, then show that one for a while, then a new frame, and so on. So I basically get one frame every 5-15 seconds of video. It's not a bad DVD (because other AVIs on the same DVD play fine), and it's not a bad burn (because I've re-burned the files a couple of times, and they're always the same). Anyone got any idea why this is? And what I can do to fix it so the AVIs play happily after being burned to DVD as data files? Thanks for any help.

[Baldrick]

Use avi recomp and reconvert.

[johnebadbak_70]

I use dvdflick to put around 4gig of avi files on a dvd disc dvdflick will convert to a video_ts ready to burn as a dvd to be played each movie file is able to be selected for showing

[marioval]

I use dvdflick to put around 4gig of avi files on a dvd disc dvdflick will convert to a video_ts ready to burn as a dvd to be played each movie file is able to be selected for showing

Just to clarify, the size of the avi is really irrelevant, its the running time that matters. If you have a single movie that is 4GB in size then that's one thing. If you have 6 of those 700MB DVD Rips (about 4 GB worth) and try to cram all 12 hours onto one DVD with dvdflick the output will be hideous....... Just do what Baldrick said and run it through avirecomp.

[davexnet]

As always, if you're playing AVI files on your standalone and you have a problem, look at the avi file with Mediainfo.
XVID encoding options such as QPEL and GMC are not handled well by the majority of players.

Compare a working with a non-working file if necessary.

[Seeker47]

As always, if you're playing AVI files on your standalone and you have a problem, look at the avi file with Mediainfo.
XVID encoding options such as QPEL and GMC are not handled well by the majority of players.

I assume this would also apply if you were trying to play the file off of a thumb drive, on a player that has the USB port option ?

[davexnet]

I would assume so, since it's the capabilities of the decoding chip within the player that's the issue.

[Budfudder]

As always, if you're playing AVI files on your standalone and you have a problem, look at the avi file with Mediainfo.
XVID encoding options such as QPEL and GMC are not handled well by the majority of players.

Compare a working with a non-working file if necessary.

I did what you suggested, and I found a difference in the QPel and GMC settings:

Working: QPel: No
Not Working: Qpel: Yes

Working: GMC: No warppoints
Not Working: GMC: 3 warppoints

So from what you say, that sounds like it might be the problem - so thanks a lot for your help.

The question now is - how do I fix it?

[davexnet]

If you want to play it on your standalone, you have to re-encode it.