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Say that I have a XviD encoded video...

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:15 pm
by Grudge
...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?

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:18 pm
by Grudge
Not requiring me to download Nero or other warez.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:27 pm
by Foo
isn't nero like £2?

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 1:46 pm
by Grudge
59,99 Euro

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:11 pm
by MaCaBr3
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:25 pm
by Grudge
I think the DVD player only plays DivX.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:01 pm
by 4days
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 3:04 pm
by Grudge
Found this freeware all-in-one tool, trying it out right now.

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

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 4:58 pm
by SplishSplash
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:21 pm
by shadd_
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:02 pm
by Grudge
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.

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 9:22 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
Nexttime give DVD-santa a try :)

Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:58 pm
by Tormentius
Pruned :icon8:

Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:11 am
by Grudge
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.