This is a totally random question but with all the technical knowledge on here i'm hoping someone can stop me pulling my hair out I have a film on my pc im .avi format that i want to be able to play on my dvd played (for the kids) i have got a philips 757vr. Can anyone help me at all?
Your going to need a program that converts .avi to DVD,(google) unless your DVD player is able to play "divx" then you are good to go as is, but I searched the model and with it being a DVD/VCR combo it won't play .avi files
Is dvd the format i need to use? i'm new to this. I have googled to find a program that will convert it but if i want the free version it puts a watermark on it, and as i only have 1 film to convert i dont really want to have to buy one
Even if you got a DivX-DVD-player....that doesn`t mean he would play each and every Avi. Avi is some kind of "Container" that could contain DivX, Xvid and similar (plus very differnt Audio-codecs that COULD cause problems with Divx-players). Did you own "Nero" ? If you got the full Version of "Nero" you could use "Nero Vision" to create a DVD out of MPG-files. So the only thing you have to do is to convert this AVI-file to MPG. There should be free Software around to convert. http://www.topshareware.com/AVI-to-DVD-download-4954.htm (<<<---Watermark? don`t know it exactly - maybe a Trial-Version) Commercial Soft is for sure the best choice (Data Beckers "Stream Catcher" for example, bought that piece of Soft 2 years ago - converts everything into...well, anything you want.)
every .avi movie I have downloaded or have created myself over the years work just fine in my divx dvd player, but I did have to upgrade my player to a newer model once as newer files wouldn't work, but would work fine on the PC and thats the only problem I have ever encountered and I have 2000+ video files all .avi and all of them worked just fine under divx. Now thats not saying that there won't be some out there that could cause problems as nothing is perfect, but compared to my success/fail ratio thus far I can't complain. anyway back to DVD, you also need to keep in mind if you are able to get a successful burn there is still a change it still won't play on your DVD/VCR player, but 9 out of 10 it will depending on the year, id say 2005 and up you shouldn't have a problem. and the Nero option Sarah explained would be a very good start.
