Need help selecting a Dvd-Player

[elcoro2005]

Can someone recomende me a Dvd-Player that can read S-vcd and Xvid, preferebly sony.

 

[jpeyton]

Xvid? You want a Philips 642. $70 or less at Target, Walmart, GoodGuys; plays DivX, Xvid, etc.

 

[elcoro2005]

"The best thing about a player like this is you don't have to convert .avi or media files into VCDs. Just burn a normal disc full of .avi/mpeg files and you can choose via menu on the Philips 642"

Can that be possible? Avi?

 

[monzie]

Originally posted by: elcoro2005
"The best thing about a player like this is you don't have to convert .avi or media files into VCDs. Just burn a normal disc full of .avi/mpeg files and you can choose via menu on the Philips 642"

Can that be possible? Avi?

Yes, definitley.

Got a Yamada DVD/avi (divx-xvid) player here and all you need to do it stick your .avi onto a CDR and play. Better still, stick a load of avi's onto a DVD/R and you can then select which avi to watch , or watch them all in one go..........just burn everything as DATA disks....BUT DO NOT REMOVE the .avi file extension from the video's name...BUT DO shorten its name wherever possible (this is TV not pc monitors).

By the way its CRAP at playing SVCD's burnt as SVCD's ...BUT..if you extract the mpeg2 stream from the original SVCD disk/file with ISOBUSTER (using>Treat as Video ONLY and EXTRACT but Filter M2F2) and just burn the extracted mpeg stream to a CDr or DVDr it plays flawlesy...(..dare I say it , the playback is then far SUPERIOR to my other DVD player that DOES accept SVCD's......why? I aint got a clue) plus you can fit around 7 SVCD's (extracted with ISOBUSTER) to a DVDr.........very useful.....no more frantic disk swapping.

I've said this before..so I'll say it again....divx/xvid enabled DVD players are probably the greatest hardware invention so far this millenium (within reason of course)..........................at least for us pc users / video/ movie fans.


HTH

 

[imported_Nacelle]

My wife hates my computer. With the Philips DVD player, she can watch all those "back-up" movies I have, without touching my "Stupid Computer".