Will AVI. format play on DVD Players?

Question

I use a game tracking/trail camera (cuddeback no flash to be exact) and it uses Compact Flash ULTRA II cards to collect the images and videos. I was going to purchase a card viewer with a screen to view images in the field immediately when I switch out my SD cards. After researching the only one I could find, I felt it was not economical, as the product reviews were at best 50/50 for this machine.

I then started researching portable DVD players that also have a USB port (as tyhis is the way i presently view the images and videos on my computer), or even a card port. I have found quite a few of these which seem to be economical. This would also serve a dual purpose as I would have a portable DVD for DVD viewing.

My question is this though. The format or the still images is JPEG. which it appears that (most) DVD players will play JPEG images. The video format is AVI. Does anyone know if DVD players will play this format? Or if there is one DVD that will?

Thank You

Answer 1

yes there are dvd players that plays .AVI, just check if the dvd player has the DIVX logo.

Answer 2

To clear things up. 'AVI' is a file format or a container. It will contain video data most likely using the codec 'Mpeg-2'. You don't really need to know this, just that AVI is the file format. IE your movies may be called movie1.avi and movie2.avi.



A DVD needs .vobs on it's disc in a folder named 'video_ts' and also menu and playing information files. Of course you are not going to have an easy time making those yourself so what you want is software that can convert mpeg-2 to DVD.



I know some software that can do this, it's called 'covertxtodvd' where X represents a large number of different file formats and codecs that it can convert to a DVD.



This software can also prepare all the menus and playing information files and even burn the resultant files to DVD and then trash the generated files, keeping your originals (because when you encode you always lose quality so originals are always the best).



so look for a convert to DVD type software or more specifically 'convertxtodvd'.



Heres a link: http://www.vso-software.fr/products/convert_x_to_dvd/



Added: After re-reading your question, I am confused. Do you mean DVD-Player or DVD-Reader. Because a player is designed just for Video DVD's and outputs a signal to a Television whereas a reader is designed for ANY files to be read from the DVD and plugs into a computer.



In the case you want one for a Television that can PLAY the DVD's then some DVD's can read .avi if the codec is 'divx' or 'xvid' or some even 'h264'. For converting your files to any of these formats you should use the software 'Super' by 'erightsoft' (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html) and maybe google for a tutorial if you need to know how to use it to encode in Divx.

This IS a tricky business though as depending on the release date of the specific codec, it may have different data put into the file, which shows electronic devices what it is. IE: Your DVD player even if it reads Divx, may not read the version you have converted your files to.

Answer 3

Use ConvertXtoDVD to convert the AVI file to DVD then it should be able to play on your DVD player. Some AVI files can be recognised by DVD players but not be able to play them so convert it to DVD with the software I mentioned.