Posted by Rafter on 01/12/53 11:55

My Philips dvp642k DVD palyer displays error CODEC not supported when I
try MP4 in it.I don't know what needs to slove this problem.In some AVI
videos my DVD palyer shows blank screen but doesn't play them also. Any
idea?

Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
> On 2 Aug 2006 13:02:53 -0700, "Rafter" <post.epatra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >
> >I'm an amateur home video maker.
> >
> >I would like to change the orientation of my avi videos, so need a
> >freeware for video editing.
>
>
> VirtualDub can change the orientation by 90/180º and an arbitrary
> amount through provided filters : http://www.virtualdub.org/
>
> It also has limited editing functionality and powerful scripting
> capabilities - and being freeware, ought to be your first stop.
>
>
> >I also need to covert MPEG4 and H.263 to avi format videos, pl suggest
> >freeware for this.
>
> You need to do this *why* exactly ?
>
> AVI is a container, not a "format" so you can actually package MPEG4
> or H263 video inside an AVI container and expect the user to play it
> back (as long as they have the respective MPEG/H263 codecs)
>
> VirtualDub can *probably* load those too, or at least it can convert
> (transcode) to a better format than H263
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2006
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

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