Say that I have a XviD encoded video...

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:15 pm

...that I want to burn to a disc and play in a standard DVD player.

Which is the easiest way for me to do this?

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:18 pm

Not requiring me to download Nero or other warez.

Post by **Foo** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:27 pm

isn't nero like £2?

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:46 pm

59,99 Euro

Post by **MaCaBr3** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:11 pm

If your DVD supports xvid, then you can burn a data cd/dvd with Windows XP. Else you'll have to convert it to VCD. Just google for xvid to vcd guides.

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:25 pm

I think the DVD player only plays DivX.

Post by **4days** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:01 pm

convert it with stoik:

http://www.stoik.com/products/svc/

or something similar? there are a bunch of freeware/semi-crippled shareware apps that'll output to divx, mpg, dvd.

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:04 pm

Found this freeware all-in-one tool, trying it out right now.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=Avi2Dvd

Post by **SplishSplash** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:58 pm

Grudge wrote:I think the DVD player only plays DivX.

I think 99% of all players capable of playing DivX can play Xvid as well.

Post by **shadd_** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:21 pm

i concur.

DivX is an MPEG-4 Part 2 video codec, XviD is also an MPEG-4 Part 2 video codec. However they are not the same. Just two implimentations of the same specs.

avi is a container format. .DivX is also a container format. It is based/hacked on AVI and is backwards compatible.

A DivX certified player will play an XviD AVI, provided that it is encoded with a matching profile. Also in some cases it needs to have a DivX FourCC to work.

Post by **Grudge** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:02 pm

I tried, and it won't play XviD.

Avi2Dvd seems to work well though (after jumping a few hoops like running it in Administrator mode and downloading WMV 9 VCM), using BURNCDCC to burn it to DVD.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:22 pm

Nexttime give DVD-santa a try

Post by **Tormentius** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:58 pm

Pruned :icon8:

Post by **Grudge** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:11 am

Ok, I just realized that I could have used Windows DVD Maker that comes with Vista. The output quality isn't really top-notch, but it's rather quick and it's good enough to view on my old non-HD crt TV.