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Looking at getting a DVD recorder with DivX support, one of the Liteon models maybe. What files will these play as some models I have looked state MPEG4, some say they will play avi`s others DivX ? I have a few avi`s and just want to know if a player with DivX support will play them.
Thanks in advance,

Martin

Always go for the divx... Divx is .avi files and will sometimes play vcd`s ...i.e .dat files.

i have a dvd divx player not recorder.. but it practially plays anything. Some, probably all will allow you to select files etc... like on win explorer... so you dont have to put the films on the root dir. if burning 4 or 5 .avi`s...

The one i would go for is .avi i.e divx... this is the most common format for film compression.

No DivX is not necessarily AVI. AVI is Audio Video Interleave and it is a file structure definition of which it can contain DivX data, MPEG2 or other compression algorithm. DivX is a variant of the MPEG4 algorithm.

If the DVD player says it can play AVI it doesn`t mean it can play them all. It means that it can read the structure. You need to find out what codec it supports and if the AVI file uses a compatible codec then it will play.

This item was edited on Sunday, 14th May 2006, 18:39

Although what Mike says is strictly correct, you won`t find a divx file nowadays that isn`t an avi file..

Ste

as far as i am aware (might be wrong) Divx is the same as AVI

I bought a liteOn 1105HC from svp.co.uk (i love this company, and i love ebuyer - great service from both of them) and it plays avi`s -

good:
records from TV
picture quality fine
east multi region hack

bad:
it is annoying there is no menu when you have a load of Avi`s on the disk
slow to respond sometimes
occasionally does not read disks - tried to record Dr who the other night, but it failed as could not read disk, but read same disk on next recording -




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