What do I use to make DivX files play on a home DVD player?

[Sams choice]

I have Nero 6 Ultra and DVD X Cpy Platnium for software. A TDK 840G DVD - and +R burner.

[snake2]

i would use nero vision express

[Sams choice]

Originally posted by snake2
i would use nero vision express

O.K. use Nero, no problem, but how? I get an unsupported format error when trying to make a SVCD out of this type of file. Is that what I should be tring to do?

[snake2]

nero vision and nero are two different programs. nero will not re-encode the file but nero vision will. go to the nero web site and dl the second package

here is a link to the trial vertion

http://nero.com/en/download_us.php?pak=2

[Sams choice]

Originally posted by snake2
nero vision and nero are two different programs. nero will not re-encode the file but nero vision will. go to the nero web site and dl the second package

here is a link to the trial vertion

http://nero.com/en/download_us.php?pak=2

O.K. I got Nero Vision Express (Full version) and was able to successfully burn a playable file (The TV show Enterprise) to a SVCD that I couldn't do using Nero Burning Rom but the quality wasn't as good as my downloaded Mpeg files were using Nero Burning Rom plus the Mpeg files only used about 375 mb of disc space were as the video clip file I tested Nero Vision Express with had to be shrunk down just to fit on a 700 mb disc, originally it was only 220 mb.

I'm in the process of tring 2 seperate shows on a DVD+R using Nero Vision Express, they are both DivX files and did not need to be sized down becuase of all the extra disc space on the blank DVD+R compared to the CD-R I used to make SVCD's. Is this the best way to do it?

I use DVD-R blank disc for my main DVD player when backing up movies using DVD X-Copy express becuase it couldn't read the +R's when I tried it before but according to the tips on Nero Vision Express it suggest that +R's and the method I choose (I think Super DVD) was the best quality and what MOST players could read. My P.C.'s burner does both formats but my newest home player seemed to be uncopatalble with +R's and my older home players cannot read the -R disc's I backedup in the past.

[salkk]

i am not sure about the sams choice's dvd player, but if you have missed one point; 90% of home dvd players won't play divx, xvid, etc... because they are not standardized and they need quite good processor for decoding

Mpeg files were using Nero Burning Rom plus the Mpeg files only used about 375 mb of disc space were as the video clip file I tested Nero Vision Express with had to be shrunk down just to fit on a 700 mb disc, originally it was only 220 mb.

1. it's not about the program (well, in this case it is, but the vision just made a simple decode which you could have done with many different program) ,
the video clip you got was packed with e.g. divx and that cannot be used in (S)VCDs
so, nero decoded it so that it meets the standards

2. conversion makes the picture always worse and i guess nero is not the best en/decoder