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brsboarder

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Feb 16, 2004
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Hey Guys, I have an avi that I wanna play in a dvd player. I was going to make it a vcd using toast, but its over 700mb, what can I do? I have a dvd burner, toast, popcorn, please help!!!
 

brsboarder

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Feb 16, 2004
763
15
what do u mean by put it on a dvd, i have dvd's but its in avi format, so if i just throw it on as data it wont play in a dvd player will it?
 

wrc fan

macrumors 65816
brsboarder said:
what do u mean by put it on a dvd, i have dvd's but its in avi format, so if i just throw it on as data it wont play in a dvd player will it?

avi isn't a format, it is only a container (like mov for instance). What's inside of the avi is what's important. If it is a DivX then there are some DVD players which play DivX, and you could just burn a data CD. If you're gonna make it a VCD, it's format will be converted to mpeg (and I believe SVCD is mpeg2). So like I said it depends on what format the video is. You can also use ffmpegX to convert it to a DVD (check out the how tos for a guide.
 
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