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| Thread ID: 99848 | 2009-05-17 02:44:00 | AVI to what? | Driftwood (5551) | PC World Chat |
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| 774514 | 2009-05-17 02:44:00 | I've been given a dvd with several movies on it. They are in .avi format. I can watch them on a PC but not on a DVD player through my telly. I guess I'll have to convert them to something else & them write them to another DVD. What is the best best method? |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 774515 | 2009-05-17 02:48:00 | Copy/paste them to your PC, then author them to DVD using a DVD authoring program. DVD Flick is a free one. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 774516 | 2009-05-17 02:48:00 | Try DVD Flick (http://www.dvdflick.net/) - Its free and converts several formats to DVD format that can be played on a Normal DVD player - you can make menus etc if you want. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 774517 | 2009-05-17 03:02:00 | Thanks guys, I'll rip into it. | Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 774518 | 2009-05-17 04:02:00 | DVD Flick is great, but some DVD players can play DivX/Xvid Movie straight off the bat, check if yours has a DivX logo on it. | Blam (54) | ||
| 774519 | 2009-05-17 05:44:00 | I see GAOTD have a DVD authoring program (http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/) on offer today - not sure how good it is though. Get in quick though, it finishes a 7pm. |
davidmmac (4619) | ||
| 774520 | 2009-05-17 06:47:00 | DVD Flick is great, but some DVD players can play DivX/Xvid Movie straight off the bat, check if yours has a DivX logo on it. This machine will play DivX |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 774521 | 2009-05-17 07:08:00 | This machine will play DivX If the DVD player supports DivX then all you have to do is use handbrake to encode the avi as dvix or Xvid. Xvid is backwards compatible with DivX so that should work fine too |
Blam (54) | ||
| 774522 | 2009-05-17 09:10:00 | Right, well here's were I am so far. Downloaded the DVD Flick. Picked one of the files & did the conversion. That was ok but It finishes up over 4GB just as the original would of been. I was hopng to get all 5 movies on one disc. Then I tryed Divx. That worked ok except with one of the 5 movies the sound was out of sync. So anyway just to see if it was going to work, I wrote them to a DVD. Put it in the player, but it wouldn't read it, just kept looking. But thats not all, I can't eject the disc now. Last time this happened I had to pull the drive out & physically remove the DVD. |
Driftwood (5551) | ||
| 774523 | 2009-05-17 10:13:00 | Ah you now need DVD shrink which can shrink a standard dual layer DVD of say 7 Gb down to fit on a standard 4.5Gb DVD. I wish DVD players had that little pin hole that computer drives have for such emergencies. | gary67 (56) | ||
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