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AVI files: DivX and Xvid

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misskelly Posted messages 10 Status Member -  
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Hello, can someone tell me how I can find out if my DVD player reads AVI files? Is AVI and DivX different? Because I often see AVI movies labeled as DivX or Xvid? Thanks
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  1. Anonymous user
     
    avi or dvix it's the same thing
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    1. misskelly Posted messages 10 Status Member
       
      Je ne lis pas les fichiers AVI XVID sur mon lecteur de salon, donc il faut que je les convertisse en AVI DIVX ? C'est ça ?
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      1. Anonymous user > misskelly Posted messages 10 Status Member
         
        if you don't have the divx logo on your player, it means you can't play them
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      2. misskelly Posted messages 10 Status Member > Anonymous user
         
        If my player says DivX but not Xvid, then I can play AVI files, right? Sorry, but I'm just starting with burning and it's not easy to understand all this. Thanks, ypsi71.
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      3. Anonymous user > misskelly Posted messages 10 Status Member
         
        If you have the logo, that's good; the DivX supports several formats (.avi, .mpeg, etc.), to burn them you choose data disc and not video disc otherwise it won't work
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  2. ziggourat Posted messages 24643 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 340
     
    Hello misskelly,

    AVI is a container format, not a video format.
    Read this about it: http://www.commentcamarche.net/faq/sujet 10929 avi is a video format

    What’s important are the codecs that are often mistakenly called "formats." You should have noted in your home theater manual which ones it can read.

    For more info on DivX:
    - https://www.commentcamarche.net/contents/1198-divx-formats-divx-xvid-3ivx-vp3
    - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX
    About XviD read this:
    - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid

    To know the codecs of a video file, use one of these little utilities MediaInfo or GSpot for example.

    Now, to find out what "formats" your player supports, aside from your manual, I know two fairly simple ways to do it.
    1) To find out easily, you can burn, on a rewritable CD/DVD RW, if you have one, a video file (a movie) with a DivX codec (not required but it would be better) and another with an XviD codec. If your player reads the second file, then it supports XviD.
    2) There is also a CD, created by the DivXTest project, which allows you to find out what formats are read by your home theater player. You can download it here: http://divxtest.isstar.net/
    After downloading, you must burn the ISO file as an Image file on a CD, not as a data disc.

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    1. misskelly Posted messages 10 Status Member
       
      Thank you for your help, Ziggurat. But what I don't understand is that when I burn this file: desperate.housewives.S03E01.FRENCH.HDTV.XVID-VXZ in AVI format, I can play it on my home player, but when I burn this one: desperate.housewives.S04E09.FRENCH.HDTV.XVID-VXZ which is also in AVI format and to me the same, I can't play it. Yet I'm using the same DVDs (DVD+R).
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  3. ziggourat Posted messages 24643 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   5 340
     
    The files you are trying to burn are subject to copyright and intellectual property rights.
    If you do not own the original DVDs, it is illegal to obtain them -> illegal download.
    Read the CCM charter, especially this Compliance with applicable legislation.

    Therefore, you will not receive help here regarding your problem.
    I will request that the discussion be closed by the site moderators.
    See you later
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