Need to burn a divx

[Oliver Varcoe]

I have a DVD on my hard drive in a .divx format and I'd like to burn it onto a CD. Being a divx thing, I presume I can just open Nero and burn but I can't seem to work out:

a) what kind of CD I need
b) what to do in the nero burning room
c) if the file format is good to just burn straight onto it

Thanks, Oliver

[sheriff]

if you have a look at afterdawn.com there is loads of guides.

[NO1FAN]

Burn it as a data cd with nero any cd should work

[Oliver Varcoe]

Even DVD+R ?

[NO1FAN]

sorry i read it as cd, you need to burn it as a data dvd. Might want to put more than one file on there though as otherwise it will be a waste of a disk

[Oliver Varcoe]

OK, new question, , can I play anything on a DVD player with a DVD+R disk?

Thanks.

[Goldenballs]

I've never heard of .divx. What does the extension do?

[Oliver Varcoe]

I just opened it (and have now burnt it onto a DVD-R) with a programme called DivX Player.

[bnmth eagle]

It will only play on a dvd player if divx is supported

[James]

Most modern DVD players will play a DivX file if burned as a data file onto CD-R or DVD+_R (and some on DVD-RW as well). DivX (and it's variations including XVid) is a lossy compression standard. Most pirate films found on the Internet (News Groups and P2P) are encoded using DivX - a film with reasonable quality lasting 2 hours will typically have a file size of about 750mb (compared to 4.7gb on a standard DVD).