Query about Xvid avi codecs
Vikram Goyal
vikigoyal at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 17:09:58 UTC 2006
Hello Ian,
On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 04:47:49PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
>
> Sorry, I can't really answer your question, but do you mean DVD player
> rather than CD player? (I've never heard of a CD player playing video)
>
Well, I meant VCD player, sorry for the confusion. It's an old vcd
player and runs any run of the mill vcd, but I haven't burnt a vcd
before and don't know how to go about it.
The movie 'A Fist Full Of Dollars' is Xvid avi format. I don't know if
it's the right format for the vcd player, also if I have to convert it
to mpeg which binary should I use.
> AFAIK most new DVD players can read CDs to play mp3s from them, and some
> can do avi-xvid but I think it's rare and you'd have to check the specs.
> Why not use a CD-RW and try it out?
> VCD and SVCD are mpeg based formats which use CDs rather than DVDs
> (lower quality) and might be more widely compatible, but I've only
> tried once and couldn't get it working.
>
> Transcode is one tool for doing format conversion,
> <http://www.transcoding.org/cgi-bin/transcode>.
>
> dvd::rip <http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/> has features for burning
> video to cd (including making VCD and SVCDs), and reading its
> logs for encoding and decoding is a good way to learn to use
> transcode.
>
> I think you can get both from any of Dag, FreshRPMS and ATRPMS.
>
I am browsing the links you posted and they look promising:)
Thanks for the reply.
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