Divx, Spivx

[dirtyfishtank]

Hi there boys and girls!

 

I wonder if you could clear up a little problem or confusion, to do with divx movies

 

The Imgburn guides and the 'Imgburn Settings' page all say that, in general, divx movie discs and, hence, divx movie players all read the ISO9660 + Joliet filesystem--as opposed to the UDF format.

 

But.

 

Most divx standalone players are surely, actually DVD-standalone players with the 'divx capability' added on afterwards and on top. This means that surely such players, overall, can read the UDF filesystem(?) Or is it just that they can technically use the UDF filesystem but that they don't want to, on divx movie discs, because the official specification for them calls for ISO9660+Joliet?

 

Reading some posts, at least on other forums, shows that people have had success simply burning .avi files using ISO9660 + UDF, maybe these are not official divx spec discs, but the single .avi files are playable on some standalones nonetheless (and are probably/possibly unplayable on other players of course).

[LIGHTNING UK!]

Using ISO9660 + UDF wouldn't fail on players even if they didn't parse UDF for non DVD Video discs, you'd just end up with the AVI interface on the player only showing 8.3 character file names.

 

Of course people don't generally want that, they want the full file name and that's where Joliet comes in.

 

ImgBurn doesn't care if you have ISO9660 + Joliet + UDF selected (covering all bases), but it will prompt if Joliet isn't included at all. Every player is potentially different though and you just have to find out what works best in yours.

 

I chose ISO9660 + Joliet because that seemed to be what the majority liked the most.

[dirtyfishtank]

OK. Excellent. Thanks for making sense of that.

 

I’ll burn ‘ISO9660 + Joliet +UDF’ with no restrictions/relaxation to cover all bases.

 

 

It's almost, but not quite, superfluous at this moment to point out that Imgburn is a fantabulous program.

 

It is easy to use, yet powerful, yet flexible & able to teach one about the black art of disc burning ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lightning UK For President! Or somefin, or nuffin, or whateva,,,,

Edited July 2, 2009 by dirtyfishtank