camera .avi to what for DVD player (join small clips aswell???)

[gooty]

my new fuji s602 digital camera tales 640X480 .avi motion pictures aswell as single photos.

when burnt to a cdr, they dont play on my tv's dvd player.

what do i need to convert it to (.mpeg????), what software do i need to do this & as it only takes a minute of film to fill the camera memory card, is there software to join little clips together to make a big clip (if so whats it called??)

[celtic_druid]

You can join them with AVISynth as you re-encode them to mpg. For VCD I would recommend TMPGEnc, although you may want to go for a SVCD.

It probably uses MJPEG for compression, although I can't be sure. I suppose it would be possible to get away without installing a MJPEG codec by encoding with VirtualDub to mpg using ffdshow.

[gooty]

just got "Advanced X Video Converter V3.7.5" which says it'll join clips & convert avi's to mpeg etc etc at the touch of a button.

the .mpeg its made wont play at the moment, but the site has "DivX 551", "DirectX9" & "Codec Pack" as downloads aswell.

which onw will i need to play the mpeg i've made?

[celtic_druid]

The only possible thing that you could need is an MPEG2 decoder and that is only if you encoded it to MPEG2. Windows ships with mpeg1 and mpeg 1 layer1/2 audio decoding.

[gooty]

is the mpeg2 decoder in one of the things i mention above? "directX9" etc

[celtic_druid]

Could be in the codec pack... just about anything when it comes to audio/video could be in the codec pack. Could try VLC, mplayer or Media Player Classic. They all have inbuilt MPEG2 decoding.

Ok, just read the page and it reckons the pack contains decoders for DVD. DVD is MPEG2 so it therefor should contain an MPEG2 decoder.

[gooty]

tried the pack & still no joy. the avi plays fine still with winamp, but the converted mpeg is a black winamp screen. any ideas?

[celtic_druid]

I don't use winamp. Could try Media Player Classic, VLC or mplayer. They all have built in MPEG2 decoders.

[gooty]

sorted, it plays fine through media player.

BTW: this software is sooooooooo easy to convert/join files.

1 click on join or convert & its done!!!