.AVI and .MOV file support with DV Codec

[HansMeulenbroek]

I can not play .avi files using the DV Codec. I've tried both files captured with Pinnacle Studio and Magix Video de Luxe.
Also files captured from my DV-camera using iMovie with the extension .MOV do not play.
Like many other video-freaks I've loads of tapes that I would like to be able to access after capturing in the highest resolution to a harddisk. What to do?

[the-osiris]

DV Codec are not supported in Mede8er.
Export videos using standar AVCHD (m2ts) or MP4(AVC) codec, it support Full HD Resolution.

[HansMeulenbroek]

Thanks! I capture the files in .avi or .mov to be able to use them for video-edits. Saving also converted files is time and harddisk consuming. Are there any hardware media players known that do support the DV Codec?

[jer1956]

A Home Theater PC is the only solution. The forum has reguler debates, often heated, about lack of support for DV. The mediaplayer market is like the graphics card market. There may be lots of makes, but they all use chips from just two companies. In the case of mediaplyers, it's bluray player chips from Sigma or Realtek, neither of which support DV becuase it isn't a bluray requirement. No one makes chips explicity for mediaplayers.

[HansMeulenbroek]

Thanks for this clear answer. Will investigate if a TV connected to my computer  network can do a similar job....

[jer1956]

The problem there is that Internet TV's work by adding the same, or similer bluray chips. With so many uses for these chips they are relatively cheap, which is why mediaplyers makers use them.

You may not like it, but the world has gone HD, and DV is SD. It's not as if chip makers had removed DV when they changed from SD DVD to HD Bluray. DV playback has never been supported by optical disk player chips. I'm not saying this to aggrevate you. Some DV users think that you are having ago at them when all you do is point these things out. I don't tell chip makers what to make. It's irrelevent if I think DV should be supported or not.

P.S. It has been supported by some DVD Recorder chips for direct transcoding to DVD MPEG2 using I-link.

[HansMeulenbroek]

mmm you're right. My next video camera will be a HD camera. I've loaded a .mts file (from a HD camera that I have tested) to the player and this worked fine.
Will have to do as earlier was advised and store both the avi and a format that the player will read.
I've burned DVD's (converted avi to vob mpeg2 files) using Magix from AVI files in the past and the quality was not so bad at all using this media player.

[jer1956]

Your preaching to the converted! But I don't want to get into yet another argument with other DV supporters who may  be reading this about the acceptability of alternative SD codecs to DV for playback purposes.

If your real concern is the time it takes to convert files, rather than an almost religous belief that you will only watch DV, then you could consider a transcoding UPNP server. The problem there is DV requires a lot of CPU power to trancode it in non-real time, never mind in real time. I doubt the results would be watchable to most DV users.

This is supposed to support DV-AVI as an input format for transcoding.
http://www.nero.com/enu/mediahome4-introduction.html

Here is the manual:-
http://ftp6.nero.com/user_guides/mediahome/NeroMediaHome_Eng.pdf

You should "try" before you "buy". If it requires DLNA it won't work with the med500.


I have tested it and it does both work with the med and convert DV in real time. I couldn't tune the quality using the Trailware version, which is limited to mpeg2 transcoding until paid for.