Videos from laptop to DVD player?

Adama

I have videos on my laptop in AVI that I would like to watch on my DVD player. I'm able to watch the videos on my laptop no problem but cannot tranfer them. I have encoded as someone said a video from AVI to MPEG 2 format but I still cannot watch them on the DVD player it says unknow disc? I downloaded some software to encode it but it took for ever and still wouldn't play on my DVD player.

How can I get these videos to play on my DVD player, I really would like them onto DVD.

Thanks.

Donnie

Leave them as .avi files and use DVD Flick to create your DVD Video.

coolagarry

If you are in the market for a dvd player make sure that you get one that will play DivX, then you can burn your avi files onto a cd/dvd and play without needing to alter them in any way.

Donnie

Some that play DivX, don't play Xvid properly. Luckily mine plays all, including from 8 GB USB thumb drives.

But I have another that plays DivX, but doesn't play my XviD files. So it's worth checking.

shoperholicnot

i was just about to ask the same question!
I have downloaded some stuff from youtube that i want to put on DVD, I have a player with DivX, do you need xvid to use DVD flick? how do i find out if my player can play Xvid?

Donnie

shoperholicnot wrote: »

i was just about to ask the same question!
I have downloaded some stuff from youtube that i want to put on DVD, I have a player with DivX, do you need xvid to use DVD flick? how do i find out if my player can play Xvid?

DVD Flick can transcode from both formats.

Download some Xvid material, burn it as a Data disc and then attempt to play it on your machine. It will probably work.

coolagarry

Download the divx player (Free). Run it and drag your file(s) into the right hand window onto the circle just above where it says 'insert blank disc'.
Click on 'Burn'
It will then burn all .avi files and similar, to DivX which can be played on your divx player.