Playing Video's on DVD Player
Hello,
I recently bought a Coby DVD-227 mid-size DVD player to replace another DVD player I had on loan from a friend. The previous DVD player was a Memorex brand. I have a large collection of music video most of which are MPEG-1 Muxed files and the remainder are DivX (with MP3 or AC3 audio). I burnt some MPEG and DivX videos onto a CD-R using Finder (10.4) and as expected, the Memorex found all the MPEG files and played them fine (wasn't expecting DivX's to play). When I put this same ISO9660/Joliet CD-R into the Coby DVD player, it gave me a "Wrong Disc" error. I investigated and the "Wrong Disc" error mesg means the DVD player can't find any playable files on the medium. I then tried a number of re-burns to get the Coby to play video files, including renaming all the file extensions to .MPG, .MPEG, and .DAT (to see if it was picky about that). I also put in every CD I could find that had MPEG or other video files, but none would be recognized as playable. Finally I burned a new CD-R with a variety of MP3's, JPEGs and every MPEG I could find, and the MP3's played fine plus I got a great slideshow with fade effects of the JPEG images, but still the MPEG files were not recognized as playable. Since DVD-Video is essentially MPEG-2, I expected all DVD players to be backward compatible to MPEG-1 (ala VideoCD). Any ideas how I can get my music video collection (MPEG and DivX) into any format playable by a Coby DVD player? I don't mind the wait time necessary to transcode them into whatever codecs/format needed. But can it be done?
Thanks in advance.
I recently bought a Coby DVD-227 mid-size DVD player to replace another DVD player I had on loan from a friend. The previous DVD player was a Memorex brand. I have a large collection of music video most of which are MPEG-1 Muxed files and the remainder are DivX (with MP3 or AC3 audio). I burnt some MPEG and DivX videos onto a CD-R using Finder (10.4) and as expected, the Memorex found all the MPEG files and played them fine (wasn't expecting DivX's to play). When I put this same ISO9660/Joliet CD-R into the Coby DVD player, it gave me a "Wrong Disc" error. I investigated and the "Wrong Disc" error mesg means the DVD player can't find any playable files on the medium. I then tried a number of re-burns to get the Coby to play video files, including renaming all the file extensions to .MPG, .MPEG, and .DAT (to see if it was picky about that). I also put in every CD I could find that had MPEG or other video files, but none would be recognized as playable. Finally I burned a new CD-R with a variety of MP3's, JPEGs and every MPEG I could find, and the MP3's played fine plus I got a great slideshow with fade effects of the JPEG images, but still the MPEG files were not recognized as playable. Since DVD-Video is essentially MPEG-2, I expected all DVD players to be backward compatible to MPEG-1 (ala VideoCD). Any ideas how I can get my music video collection (MPEG and DivX) into any format playable by a Coby DVD player? I don't mind the wait time necessary to transcode them into whatever codecs/format needed. But can it be done?
Thanks in advance.
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Originally posted by mactropolis
Hello,
I recently bought a Coby DVD-227 mid-size DVD player to replace another DVD player I had on loan from a friend. The previous DVD player was a Memorex brand. I have a large collection of music video most of which are MPEG-1 Muxed files and the remainder are DivX (with MP3 or AC3 audio). I burnt some MPEG and DivX videos onto a CD-R using Finder (10.4) and as expected, the Memorex found all the MPEG files and played them fine (wasn't expecting DivX's to play). When I put this same ISO9660/Joliet CD-R into the Coby DVD player, it gave me a "Wrong Disc" error. I investigated and the "Wrong Disc" error mesg means the DVD player can't find any playable files on the medium. I then tried a number of re-burns to get the Coby to play video files, including renaming all the file extensions to .MPG, .MPEG, and .DAT (to see if it was picky about that). I also put in every CD I could find that had MPEG or other video files, but none would be recognized as playable. Finally I burned a new CD-R with a variety of MP3's, JPEGs and every MPEG I could find, and the MP3's played fine plus I got a great slideshow with fade effects of the JPEG images, but still the MPEG files were not recognized as playable. Since DVD-Video is essentially MPEG-2, I expected all DVD players to be backward compatible to MPEG-1 (ala VideoCD). Any ideas how I can get my music video collection (MPEG and DivX) into any format playable by a Coby DVD player? I don't mind the wait time necessary to transcode them into whatever codecs/format needed. But can it be done?
Thanks in advance.
Commercial DVD players usually expect DVD video data to be in UDF format. While the video content is often based on MPEG2, the encoding is UDF.
10.4 can make HFS+/UDF Dual format discs, but as the article notes, you'll have to tell DVD player to open the video content since the Mac sees the data first.
If you want all DVD players (set top type) to always see the video content, burn it as all UDF (with Toast or similar).
That hink may be useful. But if the Coby wont play the MPEG files on a ISO9660 CD-R (where it played MP3's and JPEGs just fine), will it likey start recognizing MPEG's if the medium format is UDF??
Also is it possible to burn a CD-R as UDF format or will I have to buy DVD-R's?? I assumed UDF was for DVD's only.