On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Joel N. Fischoff <[email protected]> wrote: > Heya, > > I have a lot of video (AVI, MP4, MKV, etc). I'd like to be able to play > this video on my DVD player (or, more specifically, on my TV, which is > connected to my DVD player), in addition to standard DVDs.
I've seen players that support MPEG4 (aka XVID/DIVX) but I don't own one. I think they're common these days. BTW, AVI & MKV are both 'container' formats. There are 1000s of codecs (audio & video) that they can contain, including MPEG4. Nothing is going to support them all. > Basically, I'm looking for a DVD player that can play computer-based DVDs. > I'm not talking about computer files converted to DVD format, but rather > about (the equivalent of) DVD backup disks. The reason for this is simple: > if I convert files to DVD format, I get, at most, something like 70-80 > minutes of video. If I have them in standard backup format, I can get > 12-13 hours of video on one DVD. (And then, after watching them, I can > keep them for backups.) 12-13 hours of poor quality :-) > As far as I've been able to gather, there's no such animal, but it's > entirely possible that I'm just not searching under the proper terms. I have an old P3 laptop attached to my TV for this reason. It sometimes struggles with high resolution files though. -- Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
