Play AVI on tv

[webbub]

What equiptment do I need to convert my avi movies to play on
my dvd player on the tv?

[PowerMan57two]

Well it depends. I have a laptop and I would need to buy some cords and stuff for it to go through onto the tv. But I'm guessing your on the desktop? I'm not sure what it's called (the hardware) but it would go somewhere into your desktop, then you would plug it into I imagine your video-aux with some software on the laptop. I'm not sure how much this hardware would all cost. Maybe someone like Krell can help out or anyone else.

But make sure your desktop and tv are near each other. I'm not sure how long cords can get.

[PowerMan57two]

Woops, I read the question wrong. To burn your .avi movies onto a disk so they can then play on your tv.


You will need a converter program like TMPGEnce. You load the .avi movie and say you want to convert it to .mpg

Then once it's complete get a program like Nero/Roxio CD/DVD Creator 6 and burn them onto a disk. You might have to split the movie up into two parts. So then it'd take two CD-R's but it all depends on movies size/length.

[FreakinWeasel]

First off you posted in the wrong section, this belongs in A/V. edit : OK now it's in the AV section, Thanks whoever! Second and more important, did you even bother to follow the link that was posted in the last message you left there? The website that was recommended has more info and tools than any other place on the web. My advice is to follow the help that was there, first and if you still don't understand come back but post back in A/V and add to your existant post there don't randomly post around fishing for answers. You will need to look under the svcd or vcd guides and make sure you check the compatibility database there to check if your dvd player will even be able to recognize a vcd or svcd. (do this FIRST otherwise your wasting your time on the second more difficult part, making a vcd). Good Luck!
http://www.zeropaid.com/bbs/showthread.php?threadid=13172

[Muffin_Man]

you need to convert the avis to vcds. there are a number of programs online to do this (just type avi to vcd in a google search). once the file is converted, you will have a .cue and .bin file. select burn image in nero and choose the .cue file. after the vcd is made, it should play on your dvd player.

[PowerMan57two]

Oh yes I also left that out. That your DVD Player needs to accept VCD's. If it doesn't don't even bother trying to do this then. If your not sure if it accepts VCD's, then get your model # and brand and do a little research on Google.com

[FreakinWeasel]

wow that is weird one minute in the general discusion area, next mintue off to AV........I gotta lay off the crack.

[The Hunter]

Originally posted by FreakinWeasel
wow that is weird one minute in the general discusion area, next mintue off to AV........I gotta lay off the crack.
LOL, yeah it can do funny things to your eyes.

[Ea$y_E]

geez...
i tried to give you the best way that i know how to go about it, and you ignored it completely or something.

go to the site i suggested previously *ahem* http://www.dvdrhelp.com/guides
and follow the damn guides for svcd/vcd
i believe in second chances for ppl if you choose to ignore it again, i wont even bother next time no matter what it is.
you asked for help and i gave you the best resource available, if you cant manage to follow step by step guides thats 1 thing, to not even bother is another.

all guides fully explain what you need and what to do!!!

[webbub]

Ea$u_E, I went to that site, learned a lot but stil want to know
what conversion tool to get the avi to svid/vcd. some comments indicate mpeg4 is needed- so- my quiry. sorry to cause
problems.

[FreakinWeasel]

The encoder tool that you will get over at THE LINKED SITE will have whatever the encoder you need. vcd is mpg 1 and svcd is mpg 2, I believe, so no you don't get Mpeg 4. For the love of Pete go and read the guides. If you can't do that, then trust me making a vcd is way to hard. I know, I have spent hours trying just what you are. And just so you know, I now just watch on my computer if that gives you a clue. :shy

[CCSDUDE]

Just buy a card with TV out....

Hell if if you have onboard video...this POS would actually be better...and it has TV out...you can prolly pick one up on Ebay for less then 10 bucks..

SiS ® 6326 AGP with 8MB SDRAM & TV-Out

[webbub]

[The encoder tool that you will get over at THE LINKED SITE will have whatever the encoder you need. vcd is mpg 1 and svcd is mpg 2, I believe, so no you don't get Mpeg 4. For the love of Pete go and read the guides. If you can't do that, then trust me making a vcd is way to hard. I know, I have spent hours trying just what you are. And just so you know, I now just watch on my computer if that gives you a clue.]

I have decided to just watch on my computer- as you have
done-good advise!

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by webbub
[The encoder tool that you will get over at THE LINKED SITE will have whatever the encoder you need. vcd is mpg 1 and svcd is mpg 2, I believe, so no you don't get Mpeg 4. For the love of Pete go and read the guides. If you can't do that, then trust me making a vcd is way to hard. I know, I have spent hours trying just what you are. And just so you know, I now just watch on my computer if that gives you a clue.]

I have decided to just watch on my computer- as you have
done-good advise!

...GET A TV out card! The one I named is ooooooooold....you could pick one up (if you could find it lol) for less then 10 bucks...one site is selling a 50 pack...yes 50! of the bloody cards for 24 dollars...lol

And if you don't wanna or already have a AGP graphics card...just disable the SiS driver and benefit from it's DVD decoding assistance and TV output...it'll even decode S/VCD (mpeg1 and 2). For the price it's well worth it as the output isn't half bad...much better then re-encoding a lossy format such as DivX to a less lossy format...and still ending up with 1.2 gig's worth of data to burn to two discs...which you have to swap to watch a movie fully. Toss in really blocky fast motion scenes on a VCD and the long encoding time...added to that the need to burn at 1x because of VCD's non-ECC formatting (no error correction) that pretty much makes the CD so delicate that a few scratches can throw the audio outta sync and muck up most of the video..and you've got a big ole waste of time. LOL

[BlueLieu]

I'm with CCSDUDE, my DivX collection is infinately more useful after having bought a vid card with an out port. I am thinking about getting a cheap box and wireless keyboard/mouse and doing a dedicated media server in the entertainment center.

Anyway, NERO has a VCD encoder don't they?

[webbub]

CCSDUDE, I have a HP pavillion 512N. It doesn't have a sound card-just an "intergrated computer chip AC97 Audio"built in motherboard."
will the SiS ® 6326 AGP with 8MB SDRAM & TV-Out.
work here? And if it would do I need to string a wire to the
TV? Thank you for your imput.

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by webbub
CCSDUDE, I have a HP pavillion 512N. It doesn't have a sound card-just an "intergrated computer chip AC97 Audio"built in motherboard."
will the SiS ® 6326 AGP with 8MB SDRAM & TV-Out.
work here? And if it would do I need to string a wire to the
TV? Thank you for your imput.

Does your TV have RCA (Yellow/Red/White) plugs on the front or back? If so all you'll need is a minijack (headphone) too RCA plug and a straight up video one as well. You may need to cut all three and splice in longer wire (I'd go for Cat5 cable or anyting with 2 or 3 wires...lol) if the TV is to far away. Then all you do is plug the yellow into..yellow...red to red and white to white. Select 'input 1 or 2' or whatever your TV outputs. And let-er rip. It may be a hassle if you've only got speaker out an no lineout on the onboard video...so you may wanna grab a Y minijack adapter as well to hook up PC speakers along side the audio going to your TV.

DivX stuff at low res looks pretty good on a normal CRT tv...

Krell can probably walk you through better then I can with configuring the card to crap out a signal to the TV and even with the wiring. You may wanna just have a video cable going out and just use your PC speakers if it's close enough.

Oh...and I assume your HP doesn't have an AGP slot...so make sure the SiS or whatever TV out card you pick up is PCI... :)

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by BlueLieu
I'm with CCSDUDE, my DivX collection is infinately more useful after having bought a vid card with an out port. I am thinking about getting a cheap box and wireless keyboard/mouse and doing a dedicated media server in the entertainment center.

Anyway, NERO has a VCD encoder don't they?

Are you thinking of using one of those mini 'icebox' cases? One CD/RW one 2.5 inch HD....cramming a ATi AiW in the bugger along side a NIC card and a SB Live! ? I was thinking about doing it and the numbers I came up with for a 'neat' media center were in the 800-900 range. You could however spend 30-40 on a super cheap mini tower and a small footprint standard ATX (not mini...blah they suck ass lol) for around 60-70 along side a Celly for heat reasons or AMD XP for around 90...toss in a 70-80 dollar HD and network it to your main system with some cheap NIC to have access to all your movies...you could probably do it for under 500 with a low end AiW card...probably wanna hide the ugly 'made in china' looking box...but it's really how good it runs that counts in the long run.

[FreakinWeasel]

Oh OK now we play with money? How about one of these babies for $150 at tigerdirect.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=152088&sku=G126-1010

The Ultimate Wireless is the world's first truly wireless PC-to-TV converter recommended for professional presentations, computer gaming, and Internet browsing on TV. The Ultimate Wireless is a wireless PC to TV converter that converts both audio & video for use with any TV!
The unit has a range of up to 100 meters making the Ultimate Wireless an ideal solution.

FreakinWeasel sez, if this is an ideal solution where is the remote control? Looks like you get to play Captain Kirk with the buttons on the big box. Boo! Needs a remote! Still a cool idea, though.

[scottie255]

hey all......haven't been on in a while.......i have looked at some of the threads on connecting your computer to TV, and am starting to wonder if this could be a better (and/or cheaper) option than a DVD-RW drive...........I believe my TV is an RCA 36" (something like this)......RCA TV (http://www.bizrate.com/marketplace/search/search.xpml?cat_id=11520000&prod_id=5000923&mkt_id=523805&url_id=30234&rf=ldi&lp=1) ........and my computer is a Gateway 300 or 310.....here .........so i want to know first, is this possible for me, second, will it be a better and hopefully cheaper choice than a DVD-RW drive, and how difficult will it be to hook up..........gateway (http://gateway.com/home/products/hm_dtp_catalog.shtml)

[DigitalJunkie]

Scottie, you'll probably only need ATI TV Out video card inside your computer & RCA video & audio cables. Is your computer located close to your TV? If so, congrats!

[moneoa]

Christ guys making Vcd from Avi is not that hard unless you have a slow computer. I dont download vcd files anymore I download avi's and make them into mpeg 1 play on almost everything Vcd (btw its getting to the point that almost all DVD players have vcd reading capabilities even if not labeled Vcd compliant on the front of the player) I have gotten many movies this way and good quality at that. The only way it could be crap is if the guy who encoded the avi did a lousy job

[moneoa]

oh and no shite, look it up but some company in EU is developing a DVD player that can read AVI files much like some can already read windows media. Divx compatable from 4.0 up

[Rish]

There's only one link that you should need.

http://www.vcdhelp.com

It rocks.

[scottie255]

i have tried to change avi's to vcd's before, and was not successful, and i have used that very link that you all say is golden, followed it to the best of my ability, and come up with errors or nothing at all..........so i really do not think that is the option for me, and besides i dont think my dvd player is vcd compatible anyway (i checked it out before).........so DigitalJunkie, my computer is fairly close to my tv, id say maybe 13 to 15 feet away.......not too sure......but do you think that im better off with this than a DVD-RW?, b/c i was looking at those, and the cheapest i could get there (that looked any good) was maybe $275-$300.......how much do these run for and how easy is it to hook up?..........thanks all for the help......

[Krell]

Hello scottie255


I still monitor your questions and progress, and I do give you an A for effort. I understand the problems that youve had with your system limitations, and your VCD trials etc.

Your Gateway has an integrated video system, so you need to have some form of TV out.

"Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics with up to 64MB dynamic video memory"

Your TV has S-Video input, which is pretty good. My suggestion for you is to add an AGP video card, and a damned fine one at that, to your system. You can then use a long S-Viseo cable to connect the two.

http://www.cablesnmor.com/s-video-cable.html

This is an under $300 solution, which will serve to improve your computing experience AND display\gaming\media to your TV experience.

[CCSDUDE]

Originally posted by Krell
Hello scottie255


I still monitor your questions and progress, and I do give you an A for effort. I understand the problems that youve had with your system limitations, and your VCD trials etc.

Your Gateway has an integrated video system, so you need to have some form of TV out.

"Integrated Intel® Extreme Graphics with up to 64MB dynamic video memory"

Your TV has S-Video input, which is pretty good. My suggestion for you is to add an AGP video card, and a damned fine one at that, to your system. You can then use a long S-Viseo cable to connect the two.

http://www.cablesnmor.com/s-video-cable.html

This is an under $300 solution, which will serve to improve your computing experience AND display\gaming\media to your TV experience.

I just stated this in another thread...lol

A 62 buck ATi dual head will work for him provided he has an AGP slot on that gateway mobo (gateway's suck fucking ass...but ya'll already knew that...lol) if he doesn't I've seen SiS cards with hardware DVD decoding an TV out from between 8-24 bucks....for 24 bucks you could pick up a 50 pack of these cheap ass cards...lol it's only 8mb of video memory and a slow ass ramdac/gpu but he wants TV out and either of these cards will give it to 'em for a dirt cheap price. Besides 24 bucks for 50 'pos' cards from the 96-98 era is a damn good deal when you think about it..

One fails...chuck it an move on...another fails...well...repeat as needed. LOL Plus if he has more then one tv set he can rig up any of the his older systems for websurfing on the tv/dvd playing if he gets a DVDROM drive for an extra 30-40 bucks...and whatever else the system can handle.

[Krell]

Yah I saw that, he isnt going to listen anyways, hes too busy poppin caps in people . . . . pfffft
absurd.

[scottie255]

hey guys......sry it took me a while to reply......but anyways.......i looked at the stuff you were talking about and it seems to me that the only way to get this is to order it off the internet.......is that right? (b/c i would much rather buy it at a store Radioshack, Staples, OfficeMax, etc....) also......i had to put my dvd/vcr (a Go Video DVR4100) back in, and in the process realized that i have a supervideo port in the back as well as many other video in and out ports..........heres a link to the dvd-vcr....(not too much info though) go video dvd-vcr (http://www.powersystemsdirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=181)

[Krell]

Originally posted by scottie255
hey guys......sry it took me a while to reply......but anyways.......i looked at the stuff you were talking about and it seems to me that the only way to get this is to order it off the internet.......is that right? (b/c i would much rather buy it at a store Radioshack, Staples, OfficeMax, etc....) also......i had to put my dvd/vcr (a Go Video DVR4100) back in, and in the process realized that i have a supervideo port in the back as well as many other video in and out ports..........heres a link to the dvd-vcr....(not too much info though) go video dvd-vcr (http://www.powersystemsdirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=181)

?

Ever hear of googlegear.com ?
Free shipping doesnt appeal to you?
Are you aware that you can take back an old shoe you found in the dumpster to Walmart? See of they have it.

[Mr. Mainstream]

Originally posted by BlueLieu
I'm with CCSDUDE, my DivX collection is infinately more useful after having bought a vid card with an out port. I am thinking about getting a cheap box and wireless keyboard/mouse and doing a dedicated media server in the entertainment center.

Anyway, NERO has a VCD encoder don't they?

yeah it doz but people have had so many problems fro the screen being upsidedown to black and white to um other things. TMPGEnc and virtdub is champ

[CompuGeek]

Step 1 - Buy DVD Burner

Step 2 - ???

Step 3 - Profit

:sw

[anth0r]

To connect the output of your computer screen to your tv you'll need a piece of hardware called a SCAN CONVERTER.

Or you can convert the divx movies in vcd for playback on most dvd players.

[NDGAARONDI]

Well you can use video editing software in conjunction with a video capture device to do this.

I think TVs can only display MPEGs

[Porro]

I've just got a Belkin PC-DVD cable Audio/Video Kit.
It consists of a 10m s-video cable (to connect to the PCs 'video out', and seperate audio cables. It's even got a scart adapter to plug the cables into if the TV doesn't have s-video and audio inputs.

BUT I can only get the audio to work. I've tried plugging the cables directly into the tv, and tried using the scart adaptor. I even tried using the scart adaptor to plug into my vcr. All I get is audio, no visual :(

Do I need to change any computer settings/ graphics card setting/ get some additional software? I thought I just needed to plug the s-video cable into the Radeon 9500Pro Graphics Card and my TV.

I have noticed that the 9500Pro output socket has space for 7 pins, whereas the cable only has 4 pin connectors - but the cable supplied with the PC was only a 4 pin too.

Anyone know how to sort it out?

[NDGAARONDI]

my video capture device is called ADS Instant DVD 2.0 and I can lock both audio and video stuff so I won't have the problem you describe, fortunately for me :)

[cjules13]

I've got an '01 Dell with a stock video card. My computer's in the across the room from the TV and I was still able to use a 50ft SVID cable to the SVID in on the TV. Then a headphone to RCA audio adapter (Radioshack) connect to the audio in on the TV. Again, I had to get 50ft RCA cable to reach the TV.

That's it. Even 650MB DiVX files look good on the TV. You might have to fiddle with the display setting to output to SVID, but you can play stright from your HD or CD-ROM, as .avi's.

[NDGAARONDI]

Well you learn something everyday.

[Porro]

~prepares to fiddle with display settings~

I hope you meant the ones on the computer:mellow

[NDGAARONDI]

huh?

[Porro]

:blah

[Porro]

Cheers cjoules13.

After about 20 mins of playing with display colours and pixel settings....and feeling like the bliddy thing was mocking me (because it'd display everything up to the XP logo page then swich off)...I found a wonderful thing under >Display properties>Settings>Advanced>Displays>SWITCH THE TV ON ~slaps forehead~

Its all there folks, you just need to be able to find it
:fire

~phew~:

[cjules13]

Exactly - but then I messed around for 20 more minutes the first time trying to get my TV to switch to SVID-in instead of Video in... When you switch the input source it will invariably switch to RCA video in, not SVID in, so delve into the menu on your TV to switch that. Or many TV remotes might just have SVID in right on the remote.

Godd post for the display route, I follow that exactly.

[Porro]

It mocked me again :/

the TV displayed everything...until I tried to play an .avi using WMP. The media player and the rest of the screen showed up. But nothing within the WMP 'screen'! :(

...until I sussed WMP Tools>Options>Performance>and slowed the acceleration to medium.

WoooHoooo :fire :fire :fire

~Finally settles down in front of the telly with a glass of red wine~

p.s. cjoules13, thanks for the last tip I'll watch out for that too :)

[NDGAARONDI]

there's a blank post but no sign of it being edited?

[Porro]

I can see them all?

[moneoa]

Right now you can go into any Wal Mart and get a dvd player that can also play Divx and most codecs off the disk you burn it on. Even better ways than that now but there is the ultimate solution to this help thread.

Glad I could clear it up 8 years later

[Wikied]

lol not to harp on... but personally I watch all avi/xvid movies on my tv simply using a hdmi cable from the gfx card to the tv. Have to love the future we live in ;)

[Jorge]

I have the same setup from my Powerbook to my plasma. Rocks during football games.

[Wikied]

And with the possibility to stream over wifi to the newer TV's you dont even need the cable actually :)

[Jorge]

Right, I am looking to the day when I don't need the connection. My next TV will have this functionality...

[Wikied]

Yeah imagine the day we will be all wireless, no cables at all, it will be very niiiize!

[moneoa]

And with the possibility to stream over wifi to the newer TV's you dont even need the cable actually :)

everyone knows that son, I was answering a specific question. lol that was talked about in the thread too

[Wikied]

everyone knows that son, I was answering a specific question. lol that was talked about in the thread too

Yeah it was defenitely not ment to say that your tip was wrong or anything! A DVD that can play avi files is defenitely an easy and valid solution. :)