MPEG-4 & DivX DVD Recording (1 Viewer)

[Pete Austin]

Greetings All,

This is probably a pretty basic question but I'm a newbie at creating dvd's and I want to get it right without wasting too much time. From searching these forums thus far I have learned that the preferred video format for burning a DVD is MPEG-2. However, my capture device and software is also capable of MPEG-4 and DivX encoding. My question is, if I encode my video to either MPEG-4 or DivX format and then burn it to a DVD+R, will it be readable by a standard (new) home DVD player. Thanks for any replies.

 

[Scott L]

You'd have to buy a specialized DVD player for mpeg-4. If you want to make your DVDs for your friends too stick with mpeg-2. If PQ is your main concern capture in huffyuv and convert to mpeg-2 using TMPGENC pro.

 

[Tekara]

there's a few dvd players out there that can play divx movies, though I must say it's not a feature that I've seen in many.

http://www.divx.com/hardware/detail.php?id=55