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[rusty_halo]

It's disgustingly hot in here. I'm going to have to turn on the air conditioner, aren't I? Damn. I was putting that off as long as possible, because whenever I run the A/C, the electric bill becomes painful to look at. But unfortunately my apartment is on the top floor and all the heat in the building gathers here. :(

Anyway, so I bought this DVD player, which says "This player is compatible with everything: DVD / DVD-R / DVD+R / VCD / SVCD / CD / CD-R / MP3 / jpg kodak cd / .mpg / .mpeg, / .vob files / Mini DVD."

So, I put in some of the Buffy stuff I've burned to CD, and most of it works, but AVI and WMV files don't. I would have assumed that those formats are included under "everything," but apparently that's just hype? Anyone know if it's possible to get them to play, or convert them, or something? I'm pretty clueless about this, but any help would be appreciated. I'd like to be able to watch those files on the DVD player too.

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[onetwomany.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as Elz said, you will need to convert them. It's relatively easy to do, and there are several programs available. Only problem is that the end quality varies, and some of the smaller encodes don't look real good on a big television.

For what it's worth, I've never seen a DVD player that would play .avi or .wmv files. Granted, I am in Australia where we don't even have Ti-Vos, and where a DVD that could play .mpgs would be a month or so's salary, but I'm pretty sure that .wmv and .avi are computer-only formats. So I don't think you've been ripped off too bad.

[rusty_halo.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. I just wasn't sure if it was possible.

I'm happy with the DVD player. It even plays JPGs and MP3s. I wasn't planning to get one, but it was online, and it was on SALE (most importantly), so I figured, why not? :)