dvd player

[hmsam]

can a dvd player that supports avi files and mpeg files play them on the dvd player ?

like i save the movies i got on dvd (avi files ) 6 to a dvd, play on the dvd player ?

[Broni]

Your question is totally unclear.
Please, try again.

[hmsam]

i download movies that are avi files and mpeg files, then i burn them to a dvd blank, it holds 6 per dvd blank.

can they be played on a dvd player that supports avi and mpeg files ?

[ChrisXPPro]

Your DVD player (as hardware) will either play true DVD (transcoded from a VIDEO_TS folder and burned as DVD) - or it can play data files in any video format you use to record from onto a DVD disk.

So - you either burn a true DVD and play back from a DVD player (hardware) or save files as data files - AVI, WMV etc .. and play those from it.

Depending on your DVD player (software) - if for instance it was Media Player Classic - then that one player should play back either true DVD or basic vid data files.

Your use of ''DVD player'' however is hard to judge - whether you mean DVD ROM hardware or software player application.  I tried to cover both.

[Broni]

If this is newer DVD player, they should play,  BUT....you can't just copy, and paste them into DVD. They have to be burned into DVD.
While copy/paste would fit ~6 movies into DVD (an average movie ~700MB x 6 = 4.2GB, which is below 4.7GB DVD's capacity), burning will allow you to fit just ONE movie into a DVD.
An average movie is about 90 mins, and DVD holds about 120 mins.
Putting it another way, movie as a file (.avi, for instance) is about 700MB in size, but when burned into DVD, so it can be played in standalone DVD player, will be slightly over 3GB, in size.