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Post by JessAndress on Apr 14, 2005 14:52:32 GMT -5
I bought a C4 a few weeks ago and love it! It's a wonderful little camera.
I thought that I would be able to play the Xacti mpeg4 files directly on a mpeg4 dvd player. To this end I bought a Yamada 6700 mpeg4 player and burnt my little videos on CD as data files using windows XP. I am very disappointed to find that this doesn't work!! I am sure that there is a simple explanation but I don't know what it is..... Can someone please explain why it doesn't work? And is there a way to make it work? I was trying to avoid spending hours rendering video....
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Post by cescigues on Apr 14, 2005 17:40:57 GMT -5
Vry disapointing, isn't it? I had the same mind of you but discovered before buying a C4 that so-sayed MP4 players can read only DivX files. THEY CANNOT READ .MP4 FILES. Hopefully there is a wonderful soft, MP4Cam2AVI, which can do the job (change .MP4 files to DivX .AVI files) very quickly.
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Post by JessAndress on Apr 15, 2005 3:52:12 GMT -5
Thankyou for your response.
I am very frustrated. I actually emailed the maker of the DVD player before purchase and asked whether it would play MPEG4 files and they said it would!! What's a girl to do?
Anyone else out there with advice?
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Post by graywolf2004 on Apr 15, 2005 6:42:42 GMT -5
MPEG4 is a compression format, and AVI or MP4 is a container. 90% of DVD-MPEG4 players (and your one) play MPEG4 only in AVI container. So, there are two ways: 1. Use my app mp4cam2avi - it just repacks video without recompression and quality loose 2. Buy another player with MP4 container support
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Post by JessAndress on Apr 17, 2005 13:38:16 GMT -5
What a super bit of software! Fast, effective, easy to use and much cheaper than buying another DVD player!
Thankyou very much.
Also, thanks for the explanation.
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