AVI files and codecs…

[Terry Esslinger]

I’m not quite sure what you are saying here. But a DVD MUST be an MPEG2 to play as a DVD.

[Jorge Trinchet]

Terry,
I am sorry for the confusion.
I am not talking about playing a DVD (on a disc) on a DVD player.

My DVD player (a Philips DVP 5982) has a USB port.
I have a portable hardrive that I plug to the DVD player through the USB port. The DVD player is usually able to read the files stored in the portable drive. It is great because I don’t have to burn the files on a disc. The DVD player, thought the USB port, is able to read the files directly. It is like the DVD player is a computer, really.

The problem is that the DVD player doesn’t always find or shows all the files that I have on my portable drive. It doesn’t usually have problems with pictures, but video files are a different story.
Actually, it plays AVI and a very few others. But it can’t play quicktime, windows media player files and other smaller formats.

The question that I was initially asking is this: unlike the AVI files that I get online, the AVI files that I render with Vegas don’t play on my DVD player.
I render them with my computer, then I store them in my portable drive, and then I plug the portable drive into my DVD player through the USB port. But for some reason those files rendered with Vegas don’t play. Actually the sound plays just fine. It is the video what doesn’t play. You can listen to it, but can’t see it.
Apparently there is a problem with a codec. But I don’t know if that makes any sense, because like I said, other AVI files play just fine.
So the question is: are there different types of AVI files? Is it possible that the AVI files that vegas renders are different from other AVI files?

Let me know if this is clear. Thanks so much for all your help!!!

By the way, the portable drive that I am talking about here is the same one that I have been telling you about in another thread.
Since I converted that drive from FAT32 to NTSF, the DVD player can’t find anything at all. No AVI, not JPEGs… nothing.
But that’s a different story.

Thanks again!

Jorge

[Terry Esslinger]

First, the answer to your big question is yes, there are different kinds of avi files. avi is just a wrapper that the particular encoder uses to wrap its file in. I would say that your DVD player only has a few codecs that it works with (that maybe an updated driver would help). I would take one of the avis that the dvd player will play and ty to find out exactly what it is. (Maybe the program Super could help) Then see if you can render that exact same format from Vegas.

[Jorge Trinchet]

Thanks, Terry.
I didn’t know that about AVI files.
I will see how the DVD player can be updated.

Jorge

[Tony Lewis]

Your DVD is a computer, but it is running a cheap or free version of Linix, and it only wants to work with hard drives that are formated as FAT32. When you try to use a NTFS formated drive, it will not recognize it. Same is true for USB jump drives.