There are a lot of inexpensive devices that will play mpeg, divx, xvid, mp4, wma, mp3, and do slideshows of image files as well as their normal dvd playback duties. I have a philips player I got about a year ago that works quite well for this purpose. I also picked up a LiteOn lvw 5115ghc, at costco for about $100, and is also a recorder. Other than a fan that never turns off it's also been pretty reliable for both playback and recording duties. Most of these devices will also have the full range of connection types, progressive scan etc.
http://r00.liteonit.com.tw/DC/english/lvw_5115ghc-plus/lvw_5115ghc_2.htm I find it's much more convenient to throw three or four avi's on a dvd and shell out the $60-150 for one of these types of players than it is to spend hours transcoding compressed video to vob's for playback on an older player. Also if you find one that is DivX certified you'll be able to use the downloadable pay for content that some vendors are selling encoded with DivX. Kyle On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:45:18 -0700 (PDT), "Erich Hohman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a DVD player that plays avi files. It expects them to be divx > encoded. So far it has played all of the discs that I had backed up from > a couple of years ago. The CDs are just normal CDs with one or more avi > files on them. > I think I picked up the player for about $60. > > If you want to create S/VCD or DVD compatible disks though, you might want > to check out: > http://qdvdauthor.sourceforge.net/ for DVD > http://www.cornelinux.de/web/linux/kavi2svcd/index-english.html for SVCD > > Most of my experience has been with going the other direction (DVD to > avi), but with the price of DVDs having dropped, now I usually just recode > the original DVD so the backup fits on a 4.5 Gig disc. > > >> Ok.....are you just copying an avi data file as a file onto the CD and >> putting that into the player? >> >> Dennis >> >> >> R. Busch wrote: >>> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Sebastian Smith wrote: >>> >>> >>>>> As I look on the web for options - they are all over. >>>>> >>>>> I have some avi's I would like to slap on a cd or dvd and play on >>>>> my home dvd player. >>>>> >>>>> Recommendations on the least painful way to accomplish that? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> You could use transcode, but it is quite painful. Do you know the >>>> encoding of the video and audio streams? >>>> >>> >>> lol >>> the least painful is spending $75 on a >>> player than can play avi's outright ;) >>> >>> my $0.02 >>> >>> Rainer >>> >>> p.s. I bought some Philips player @ circuit city for a friend >>> Seems to work fine. >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> RLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
