What format is my avi file ?

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    My Sony DVD player says it will play DIVX files provided they are in ISO 9660 level1/level 2 or joliet format. I have tried creating a data CD and a Data DVD but neither play.

    How do I find out what format my saved avi files are ? And should I be burning a video CD , which the Sony manual says it will accept ?

    Any help much appreciated
     
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    Thanks Attar...GSpot...well...hits the spot.

    It tells me the file is XviD 1.2 SMP....

    Now for the really dumb question. What CD do I create...I'm guessing the only option is a data Cd ? The Sony manual says nothing about the burning option just that it plays Divx files
     
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    Simply burning a 'Data CD' (or DVD if the file is too large) with the likes of Nero or IMGBurn should produce a playable disk.
    The only other possibility is that in fact the player is looking for the 'DivX' in the file header (ignoring the XviD).
    I think that you could test that by having a friend play the disk on their standalone unit.

     
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    Thats sounds about right, cheers again Attar. The actual file name is

    Heroes.S02E02.HDTV.XviD-XOR.avi

    I wonder if I change the file extension from avi to DivX it might work. Mind you I've not actually burnt a data CD with this particular file so I might just give it a go and see what happens
     
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    I would try changing the name to movie.avi - just in case the player cannot accept long file names, but don't change it to .divx
     
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    You know that could well have been the problem with previous, similar, files that wouldn't play. They have all had the multiple . in the name

    Heroes.S02E02.HDTV.XviD-XOR.avi

    Has four...now thats gotta confuse a simple device like a DVD player which, as you say, is probably expecting a movie.avi type file name.

    Many thanks again.....I'll give it a go tomorrow....
     
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