.Avi file

Coolhandluke

Can i burn a .avi file unto a DVD disc and play it through my DVD player?

Red_Rose_Exile

Many DVD players are now capable of playing AVI (MPEG-4/DivX/XviD) files. Unfortunately, not all AVI files are compatible with DVD players.

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ABH_3

Assuming you can play the file on the computer, got some dvd's a dvdburner, a enough harddrive space then yes there shouldn't be a problem just go here: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/ConvertXtoDVD look for where it says 'Download the old free DivXtoDVD 0.5.2 here.' Install, and a few clicks later you should start encoding your first dvd it will take around 40 minutes to an hour, burn the end result and watch on your dvd player.

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astralbee

There's a lot of misunderstanding about .avi files.

We are so used to associating a file extension with a particular computer applications (eg 'doc' files with Microsoft Word) that many people mistakenly believe 'avi' files are DivX files and can be played on a DVD that has DivX capability. This is wrong.

'avi' (Audio Video Interleave) is actually a bog standard file format invented by Microsoft. BUT it can work along with a number of popular compression systems such as DivX; and because most avi files you will come accross on the internet use this method of compression it has become closely associated with it.

So you can see how the original question on this post could actually mean a number of different things. I'll try and clear it all up.

There are some DVD players on the market which can play DivX files. So if the avi files you are asking about have been encoded using DivX (or 'XviD', which is basically a free alternative to DivX that some people use instead) then you can just burn them to a data disk and they will work in these players.

If your DVD player doesn't play DivX and you can't stretch to the £20-£30 to buy one that does, you can 'create' a regular DVD from the avi file using most DVD burning software (eg 'Nero'). Just use the wizards, its really easy.

Lastly, if the avi files you have are not encoded with DivX or similar, then you can probably still create a DVD from them. If they play OK on your computer then your burning software will be able to use the same codec in the DVD creation process. Or, why not download the XviD package and learn how to turn your uncompressed avi into something that can play in a DivX player?

Hope this helps!!

D.

Donnie

Not all standalone DivX DVD video players can handle XviD.