Burnt .avi file to DVD, can't play in Blue Ray player to tv.

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3 total messages Started by Polly the Parrott Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:05

#478

Author: Polly the Parrott
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:05

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Hi Guys,

What format does an .avi movie burnt onto DVD (Lubuntu 11.10) have to be to 
play on home tv through a DVD player?

Having trouble getting the DVD player to recognise this format.

At present the DVD (Blue Ray) player says "unable to recognise media".

If the file has to be converted, what is the best software for this? 

As is usual, thanks in advance!

Re: Burnt .avi file to DVD, can't play in Blue Ray player to tv.

#479

Author: F8BOE
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 21:39

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Polly the Parrott wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> What format does an .avi movie burnt onto DVD (Lubuntu 11.10) have to be
> to play on home tv through a DVD player?
> 
> Having trouble getting the DVD player to recognise this format.
> 
> At present the DVD (Blue Ray) player says "unable to recognise media".
> 
> If the file has to be converted, what is the best software for this?
> 
> As is usual, thanks in advance!

Hello,

Does your DVD player read MPEG4/AVI? It should be written on the front 
panel...

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Re: Burnt .avi file to DVD, can't play in Blue Ray player to tv.

#480

Author: Peter 'Shaggy' Haywood
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:51

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Groovy hepcat Polly the Parrott was jivin' in aus.computers.linux on
Mon, 21 Nov 2011 7:05 am. It's a cool scene! Dig it.

> What format does an .avi movie burnt onto DVD (Lubuntu 11.10) have to
> be to play on home tv through a DVD player?

  It has to be in DVD format.

  It first needs to be transcoded to DVD compatible MPEG format. Then a
DVD filesystem must be authored for it, complete with menus, if
desired. Then it must be burned to DVD with UFS filesystem support.

> Having trouble getting the DVD player to recognise this format.

  Some DVD players can recognise and play AVI files. But this is not
universal.

> At present the DVD (Blue Ray) player says "unable to recognise media".
> 
> If the file has to be converted, what is the best software for this?

  Use any decent video transcoder, such as ffmpeg (with non-free codecs
installed), mencoder, transcode..., to transcode to MPEG2. Use
dvdauthor, possibly with a GUI front end such as qdvdauthor, to create
the DVD filesystem structure. Then use your favourite DVD burning
application, eg. k3b, to burn it to the disc.
  There are tutorials on all this on the Net. Search google.

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