DVD burner question.

dak125dak125
edited February 2004 in Hardware
I plan on getting a DVD burner sometime this month. (The Optorite 8x if anyone knows about it, please let me know). Let's say I had a bunch of AVI's, dvd quality and what not, can I put a bunch of those onto a dvd-r and just pop it into a dvd player and voila lots of dvds on one disk? Is that a possibility? Is a certain type of dvd player necessary? Thanks in advance-DaK

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  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    No. AVIs do not play on any but 2 DVD players currently on the market.

    98% of the AVIs out there (DiVX or XViD) are encoded as such that they are not compatible with these DVD players, as they support only the most barren options for the MPEG4 standard.

    Get a Pioneer DVR-A06 or wait for their A07 which is coming quite soon.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited December 2003
    What about the Plextor PX-708A? Double the speeds of the DVR-A06.

    Any quality issues with it?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Yeah.

    Plextor DVD burners have a low success rate, and the +R standard has a compatibility ratio of about 1/6 just based on discs alone. That is, one out of every six discs works. It doesn't even take into account the DVD player's like or dislike of the +R/RW format.

    +R's success, like Intel's, relies solely on the fact that it came first. HP picked it up, spammed it before -R's debut, and it reached hundreds of thousands of people before they even realized how bad it really was. The +RW consortium continues to tout numerical speeds over real results.. .. Hmmmm.

    Pioneer and -R is the best in the industry with the LG 4040SB right behind it.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited December 2003
    But this Plextor does 4x-R and 2x-RW as well....
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Right.

    It's a useless 8X +R/RW. And an identical-to-the-Pioneer 4x -R/RW.

    The plextor itself has a lower success rate for working discs than the Pioneer.
  • SimGuySimGuy Ottawa, Canada
    edited December 2003
    When's that DVR-A07 supposed to come out? Before Christmas?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Supposedly.. Yes.
  • dak125dak125
    edited December 2003
    The whole point of a dvd burner is to make backups of currently owned dvd's and back up data than correct? Well this is dissapointing. I have mass amounts of AVI. I'll look into the Pioneer, thanks.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    You can store AVIs on a DVD-R or DVD+R, but it won't play in a DVD player like a normal DVD would.
  • dak125dak125
    edited December 2003
    Thrax had this to say
    You can store AVIs on a DVD-R or DVD+R, but it won't play in a DVD player like a normal DVD would.

    Let's say I were to burn a bunch of AVI's onto a DVD-R, do you think Xbox media player would read it? It reads basically any codec available more or less. If that worked I would be a very happy man.
  • jowarrenjowarren
    edited February 2004
    i have bought a YAMADA dvd/divx player. excellent player plays all divx/avi/mpg aswell as dvd. does any one know is there a way of putting many avi's on one dvdr.
  • Optimus-MatrixOptimus-Matrix Phoenix
    edited February 2004
    OK man First off yes you can play the avi's on a dvd player you just have to have one that supports DivX. Now the one that seems the best bang for the buck right now is the Polaroid DVP-0600 . Here's the link to best buy where they sell it http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1066093906258&skuId=6135602&type=product

    Dak no it wouldn't work on an Xbox unfortunetly.

    I have the Lite-on 811s. I highly recommend it to anyone who's looking for an 8x burner but doesn't want to pay an outragious amount of money for it. You can find it on newegg for as low as 115. But the problem is find media thats 8x. Yes there are places around the net that sell it but walk into any store and try to find 8x media is damn near impossible also your going to pay about double for 8x media that you would for 4x. I've also read lots about people burning movies at 8x and them messing, so it seems best to burn at 4 or 6x still.
  • dak125dak125
    edited February 2004
    Optimus Matrix wrote:

    Dak no it wouldn't work on an Xbox unfortunetly.

    Yes it will. I have a modded Xbox, XBMP will play just about anything.
  • Optimus-MatrixOptimus-Matrix Phoenix
    edited February 2004
    dak125 wrote:
    Yes it will. I have a modded Xbox, XBMP will play just about anything.

    oops i just read xbox
  • dak125dak125
    edited February 2004
    Optimus Matrix wrote:
    oops i just read xbox

    Hehe NP :). I still have to buy one of these things.
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