AVI? WTF??

[shadowkat]

Anyone know how to read an AVI DVD on an US DVD player? I know nothing about tech stuff of this sort, I'm proud of being able to figure out financial databases. AVI vs. whatever DVD's that are sold in the US which my Sony can play are beyond me. Also as an aside, you'd think the DVD players in the US would be able to play the same DVDs sold elsewhere in the world and vice versa? This makes no sense to me.

[Frustrated - because I can't watch the Misfit DVDs - because they AVI and AVI isn't compatible with my DVD player or the DVD player in my computer - yes, I tried both.]

Comments

[cindergal.livejournal.com]

Have you played AVIs on your DVD player before? I have what's called a progressive scan DVD player, and it does play AVIs.

As far as your computer goes, the VLC media player is the best player I'm aware of. It pretty much plays everything. You can dl it here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[ponygirl2000.livejournal.com]

You might want to download a free video player program like VLC or DivX if your computer isn't opening .avi files. There is a way to get your computer to play dvds regardless of region but that's a bit more a hack from what I hear.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

No, not until now. I loaded it in and it didn't work on the DVD player. Said no image no audio. It's a simple model.

But will try the computer download. Thank you.

[flake-sake.livejournal.com]

Arg, sorry they are not working with your DVD player! It has nothing to do with region though, .avi is normally a computer format, but lately some DVD players can read those (and .mp4 .xvid or other formats).

It should work out with your computer though hopefully. Like the other folks I recommend the VCL player, it's freeware and it plays absolutely everything (also it's the one I test-played the files with).

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

I apparently bought the one DVD player that can't read it. I think the old one I had could - but the new one is more rudimentary and cheaper, because it's basically a stand-in until I can get a fancier model.

Have downloaded the link provided above...it may work and I'll try them on the computer.

Thanks for sending them, not your fault my DVD player can't handle it. ;-)

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Wait, where did you buy DVDs with .avi files? They don't sell those at Target.

My guess is that you need to download and install the proper "codec" to your computer. It's been a long time since I've done this (and I've only done it once per computer) but I think you should google "codec" and "divx" and/or "xvid."

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah, you didn't read the prior comments. Long story short, a tech-savy friend in Austria sent me Misfits DVDs on avi - she taped them from her screen and made them herself (which was incredibly sweet).

But, my DVD player (or rather my new one - I'm guessing the old Zenith probably could have played them) can't. So we're trying the computer now.