DVD5 formats supported ?

Posted by: Roy Donaldson on 05 February 2006

Hi there,

Before I go out and buy a 50 quid cheapo DVD player (ironic really)...

Can someone say what formats on DVD/Cd are supported on my DVD5 ? eg.

VCD,
SVCD,
MP3,
MPEG4,
Divx,
xVid ?

Not that I would have any US TV series I desperately need to be catching up on or anything ?

Thanks,
Roy.
Posted on: 05 February 2006 by Steve2701
Oops
Posted on: 05 February 2006 by Roy Donaldson
Mmmmm....just relunctantly spent 25 quid on a Cyberhome DVD player, on the expectations we may not be looking at too many formats.

Roy.
Posted on: 06 February 2006 by AV@naim
DVD+R
DVD-R
DVD+RW
DVD-RW
CD
DVD-A
Posted on: 06 February 2006 by Roy Donaldson
That's the physical media type of the disc. What about the formats on the disc, ie. from the list above ? Roll Eyes

Roy.
Posted on: 06 February 2006 by David Dever
Not tested, but Video CD and Super Video CD are largely included into the DVD spec (each uses MPEG-1 compression), though really poor quality. One could also extend this to MP3 as well (MPEG-1 Layer 3), though support for these is looser on some machines, with restrictions on number of folders and tracks.

Divx and xVid are not supported by enough commercial video distributors to bother with–though perfectly fine for a PC.

MPEG-4 is too broad a category to test compatibility for–and, most likey unsupported in shipping players NOT built around a HTPC.
Posted on: 07 February 2006 by Mr Underhill
VCD = Yes

Others I don't know.

Why would I want to try MP3!

M