Burning DvD's

I'm trying to burn AVI Video Files on to blank DVD discs and play them on my DVD player. My new DVD player can play them, but my old one that I got in 2003 doesn't seem to play the AVI files, neither does the playstation 2. Does anyone know why AVI's can't be played on older DVD playres, and what I should convert them into so that they play on my playstation 2. Perhaps a mp4 video file.

 

I don't think you can force your older DVD player to read .avi files (unless your old player supports VCD/SCVD, then you could burn the .avi files as those file types), but there's ways to force your PS2 to play .avi files. It will require some kind of modchip/disc swapping method/software though. Probably more trouble than it's worth. Why are you even bothering trying to do this if you already have a new DVD player than can play .avi files fine?

Also, a PS2 isn't fast enough to read DiVX/XViD encoded .avi files. So even if you did figure out a way to do it, you would have to re-encode and downsample everything and end up losing a lot of quality. I don't think it's even worth trying.

 

Well the ps2 is in my room so if I want to watch something from up in my room I need it to be able to play on the ps2. I had a video converter back in the day that would change the format of a video file from AVI to MP4 to WMP to 8 or so other options, and i was wondering which one of those other things could I convert the AVI file to so that it will run on my ps2

 

just convert from avi to dvd. i just use winavi and it works everytime,i have a huge stack of burnt dvds.