Re: Codec for AVI on Philips DVP642
- From: "P.V." <ano@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:18:45 GMT
"rhino" <No.offline.contact.please@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti
viestissä:g8sdc6$92k$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm trying to make a home DVD of some downloaded TV programs so that I
can watch it on my Philips DVP642 DVD player.
The programs were downloaded in a torrent that was in MKV format and
converted to AVI format using Prism Video Converter. The DVD I burned
contains the AVI versions of the programs. When I try to play the
disk, I get "Codec. Not supported".
Both the MKV and AVI formats of the programs play fine in VLC on my
computer, which is running WinXP SP2.
Clearly, I need a codec on the burned DVD for the disk to play
properly in the Philips player.
Sorry, but it won't help. The obscure error message you saw actually
means that the codec with which the avi file was encoded, is not
supported by the player. Stand-alone DVD players have hardware-based
decoders, i.e. chips dedicated to decode material encoded in specific
format(s). Philips DVP642 seems to support standard DVD's (material
encoded with MPEG I or MPEG II and organized in DVD file structure), and
also DivX (in avi files), but that's all. Standard stand-alone players
can't be expanded with other codecs, at least without replacing
components inside them.
The reason why the expansion can't be done is that stand-alone players
don't have general-purpose processors powerful enough to decode material
on the fly according to instructions in any codec file placed on a disc.
Instead the files do play on VLC, a software player, because VLC has a
powerful general-purpose processor available, the cpu of your PC, that
decodes the material according to instructions in some codec files on
the hard drive.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure _which_ codec I need or where to put it.
How do I determine which codec is needed? Where can I get a copy of
the codec that isn't infested with spyware and other nasties? Where do
I put the codec on the DVD so that the Philips player can see it? (I'm
not sure whether I need to put a single copy of the codec on the DVD
somewhere or whether I need to merge a copy of the codec with each
individual AVI file somehow.)
Can someone please enlighten me on what I need to do? The articles
I've found so far only tell me how to make this work on the computer,
which is not my problem....
You need to use your computer to convert the videos into a format
supported by your DVD player. There are software for creating DVD's, and
software for creating DivX-encoded avi files, and both types should work
with your player. I'd recommend the DivX approach as with it you can use
cheaper CD-R's instead of DVD-R or DVD+R.
A program for the job would be DivX Converter (from www.divx.com); it's
not free, but as far as I can remember, you should be able to use it for
30 days or so for a test run. A challenge you may face is that VLC uses
its own codecs that are incompatible with other applications, so it's
probable that you don't have the correct codec installed on your
computer that DivX Converter or some other program could use to read the
current files.
P.V.
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