Blu-Ray and DVD Players

[pcslookout]

Why is it some Blu-Ray and DVD Players still not support xvid at all ? Is there anyway to get around this or must they buy a new one? I encoded some of my films from DVD to xvid so I could fit more than one movie on a DVD. Now when I loan it to a friend they can't play it on their DVD player. It is a new player too just been given to them during Christmas. Yes I looked it up on vcdhelp.com. No xvid support at all. I don't want to loan out the original DVDs because they are known to lose them or never give them back. Much easier to not have to worry about it. Good thing I didn't encode my original DVDs into .mkv HD264 rips instead because I don't think any or not many stand alone players support that. At least not from what I seen. I prefer using a pc anyway when playing compressed encoded video because you really don't have to worry about file support. The problem is most people don't do that and never will.

 

[Rifter]

why dont you just copy the DVD then? guaranteed to work with every play that way.

 

[pcslookout]

why dont you just copy the DVD then? guaranteed to work with every play that way.

I would do that but they want to borrow around 10 dvds and a lot of the movies are over 4.7 GB I am not buying DVD9s way to expensive. I know I can shrink the dvds but some are over 6 GB. Yes I took out all the extras. It is a pain doing that and wasting 10 dvds. I know I could use DVD-RWs or DVD+RWs but there not always cheap. Agree with you though. Much easier to put 10 xvid movies on one 2 dvds though.

Is there anyway to make a dvd player or blu ray player xvid compatible ? Like with a firmware update or something? I remember that you can do that with making some dvd players region free. I did it with mine. I could just let them borrow my dvd player that will work with xvid but they don't really have anymore connections on their big screen tv. Well there is these front ports of video in and audio red + yellow in but I thought that was for only a video camera. It is not a new tv but it is not really old either.

 

[Soundmanred]

I would do that but they want to borrow around 10 dvds and a lot of the movies are over 4.7 GB I am not buying DVD9s way to expensive. I know I can shrink the dvds but some are over 6 GB. Yes I took out all the extras. It is a pain doing that and wasting 10 dvds. I know I could use DVD-RWs or DVD+RWs but there not always cheap. Agree with you though. Much easier to put 10 xvid movies on one 2 dvds though.

Is there anyway to make a dvd player or blu ray player xvid compatible ? Like with a firmware update or something? I remember that you can do that with making some dvd players region free. I did it with mine. I could just let them borrow my dvd player that will work with xvid but they don't really have anymore connections on their big screen tv. Well there is these front ports of video in and audio red + yellow in but I thought that was for only a video camera. It is not a new tv but it is not really old either.

1. No.
2. Wrong.