I have a (Phillips) DivX Player. Am trying to figure out how to burn 2 movies onto a DVD-R without having to burn them into a DVD format that takes 3-4 hours.
One is a standard AVI (I normally burn these using Nero DVD Data).
You do not say what model your Philips player is. I have an Ellion DV-520C player (Chinese) and it can play VOBs directly from a disk burned as a data disk. If you know that your Philips player can play MPG files as well as AVIs from a data disk, you could try renaming the .vob file so it has an .mpg extension.
If you use a DVD-RW disk you can experiment without wasting disks.
If it is the DVP-642 it can play mpeg1 and mpeg2 files so you should be OK with the VOB if you rename it to mpg. I have Googled and found that some folks say that it plays VOB files directly but the audio is missing, so maybe the rename is a good idea to try.
Other people say that normal VOB structured mpeg2 files play just fine. So use an RW disk and try 'em out is my advice.
Great Idea. It's a Phillips DVP-5140, and so far plays just about everything thrown at it - well worth the $45 cost.
I'll burn the VOB - both as it is and another file after renaming it to MPG onto a DVD-R. It's worth the cost of a disk to see if this works, and will report back.
Am also doing a VOB-DivX conversion to AVI using AutoGK, and will burn that onto the disk also to see if there's any quality issues amongst the 3 files.
