Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 22:01 -0500, Robert Glueck wrote: >> I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov >> format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a >> standard >> TV set. The particular unit is a Magnavox MDV456/17. >> It's able to play commercial movie DVD's, audio CD's, >> finalized DVD+R's and DVD+RW's, and VCD's but it doesn't >> support >> DivX/XviD. It also doesn't play CD's and DVD's which >> contain avi, wmv and mov videos that I downloaded from >> the web and burned on the Samsung CD/DVDW TS-H552U >> burner/player in my computer. >> >> Is there a way to convert these avi, wmv and mov files to >> a format and on media that this dedicated DVD player can >> handle? I'm running Debian Sarge. > > You need to convert them to MPEG2, then create special > table-of- content files, and put them all in a defined > directory structure. > > mplayer and transcode (which comes in the mplayer package, > I think) > can do the conversion. Don't remember, though, what > package will do the rest. > > kino (which is a non-linear video editor) *might* be able > to do it, as onw of it's side functions. >
The manual for my dedicated DVD player does not state that it supports the MPEG-2 format. What is the native format of commercial movie DVD's that play on all standalone DVD players? Would I be set if I could convert my avi, wmv etc. files to that format and then burn them to CD-R or DVD+R? Is there any software running under Linux that does this conversion? I have VLC, MPlayer, Xine and Noatun installed as media players - would any of them do it? Or would ffmpeg do it? I also run Windows XP on this machine. Would it make more sense to use a Windows utility to perform this conversion? If so which one would be suitable? Would "Cucusoft Mpeg/Mov/RMVB/DivX/AVI to DVD/VCD/SVCD/MPEG converter Lite" do it? Is it any good? Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
