Help playing mpeg files?

mikeyboy32

Hi, i have just bought a shinco 1720c portable dvd player which can also play divx and mpeg movies.I have some mpeg and avi files saved on a cd-r(i don't have a dvd burner), which i am trying to play on my dvd player.But my player doesn;t recogzise any of my cd-r's which have these files on.it's as if the player is trying to read a cd that is not there!
Any idea's how to get this to work?

wonderfullife_2

Hi
You will have to convert your mpeg and avi files to either vcd or svcd for your player to recognise them.
Best free encoder around.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/TMPGEnc.htm

Hope this helps

L400ras

nero will do this for you easy as pie, just goto file>new> choose video cd and add your files.

mikeyboy32

Thanks for the advice will give it a go now.

mikeyboy32

I'm a bit confused here actually.My player can play divX & mpeg4 files apparently.So if i put a cd with these files on my player should recognize it should'nt it? Or do i absolutely have to make a vcd? I thought i would have to only make a vcd if my player didnt play divX or mpeg4 films?

charlieheard

wonderfullife wrote:

Hi
You will have to convert your mpeg and avi files to either vcd or svcd for your player to recognise them.
Best free encoder around.
http://www.free-codecs.com/download/TMPGEnc.htm

Don't use VCD, except as a last resort! VCD/SVCD are very old, poor quality formats that were put into DVD players ages ago. The world has moved on since then.

DivX and MPEG4 are ways of compressing large video files down to a much smaller size. You can squeeze a DVD film onto a CD, but the quality is better if you don't compress it quite as much and use a DVD. (The quality is still miles better than a VCD even at CD-size, BTW) The files created in this way can have any number of extensions, such as AVI, MP4 or MOV. However, lots of other videos compressed in different ways may have the same extensions, so just because you have an AVI or MPEG file doesn't mean that your player will be able to play it.

The best way to check is to use something like GSpot Codec Information Appliance (ignore the name ) and check that it is using the right video Codecs. You'll need to check if your player needs specific codecs and specific file extensions.

To convert existing files to MPEG4/DivX, you will need an appropriate converter (eg from http://www.divx.com) and then something to write these files to a CD or DVD - most burners come with the appropriate software nowadays. Just make sure that you burn them as Data Files, not as a DVD-Video.

EDIT: Arrgh! I've just seen you don't have a burner, so you're a bit stuck unless you borrow or buy one!

Donnie

I picked up a £23 DVD player from LIDL, the Bench KH6777. It happily plays any mpeg/jpeg/wma file thrown at it. No need to convert to VCD/SVCD. Haven't tried MPEG4/DiVx with it. Don't think that it plays those. Doesn't play video from my Samsung camera, which is MPEG4/XviD.
Other than that, very nice.