My sons finished a long term video assignment for school.
We had thought we would have a computer to play it on
but they've all been booked, so only TV's are available.
So, if we use the PS2 to play a DVD it should work.
Any idea how we can get an AVI file into a DVD playable format.
I'm sure I could "aquire" the required conversion software,
its just knowing what formats are playable on standard TV's via the PS2
By the way do DVD's generally play "+" or "-" discs.
As a last resort my video card supprts output to TV so I could make a
video tape version, but that would mean a swag of mucking around.
And I'm sure I wont have all the various cable I'll need.
So any idea's welcome.
Getting AVI files to play on TV
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No idea.
You can't "borrow" someone's laptop to play it on?
You can't "borrow" someone's laptop to play it on?
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Worked a treat, thanks guys.
first tried Plastik8's way, but the free version of DVD santa left a big watermark.
And Nero vision seemed for too complex for my small brain.
Then found a generic video converter, got it to Avi 2 version, then
TMPEG DVD author worked after I got the framerate and quality settings sorted.
Thanks mighty ARSE brains.
first tried Plastik8's way, but the free version of DVD santa left a big watermark.
And Nero vision seemed for too complex for my small brain.
Then found a generic video converter, got it to Avi 2 version, then
TMPEG DVD author worked after I got the framerate and quality settings sorted.
Thanks mighty ARSE brains.
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Re: Getting AVI files to play on TV
All recent (last 3 or 4 years) DVD players should read both DVD+R and DVD-R discs fine, including PS2s.Cutter wrote:By the way do DVD's generally play "+" or "-" discs.
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Nero is fast and dirty. It will do it pretty quickly though On the old PC, which was shit, it would take 4 hours to creat a DVD. This is in stark contrast to the almost 18 hours it would take with DVD authoring software. It should be significantly faster on a good PC. Alternatively, you can just use a stand alone DVD player that will play AVI files (most of them do these days) they only cost $100 ish and are very handy
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