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Question

Please help me about Avi file codec MP@HL

Dec 27, 2014 2:54AM PST

I want to convert my video clip to use on my tv, it require to be either .avi, .mpg2, with codec/profile as MP@HL, but I do not know how to get those profiles or codec.
Will someone explain and help me. Thanks in advance

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First, AVI is a bucket or container.
Dec 27, 2014 3:03AM PST

While there are 4CC codes, the AVI is a bucket or container. It is not a format.

Are you done with AVI yet? Some want to keep the position that AVI is a format or encoding and for those folk we can't move forward.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.262/MPEG-2_Part_2 now gets us into the actual encoding but here's the rub, even with that known some TVs don't adher to that spec and still won't play it. Some TVs in what some know about but won't tell stop playing files at just over 2 hours. Well discussed why that is.

Since you didn't reveal the actual TV I'm going to tell you to get a WDTV and forget all the madness.
CNET writes it up at http://www.cnet.com/products/western-digital-wd-tv-media-player-2014/
Bob

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my question above
Dec 28, 2014 11:16AM PST

I found your answer usefull, but I do not need WDTV because besides AVI I can convert my clip to MPG2 or VOB than my TV run them good. Thank you again for your respond.

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The question was about MP@HL
Dec 29, 2014 1:14AM PST

Which is partly why I had to lead with a passage about containers. If MPEG2 works then keep doing that. Some folk find that such files are twice or more the size of other encoding but we can't discuss much yet as the make/model or better yet a link to the product's manual isn't here.

-> In parting I like HANDBRAKE for easy transcoding.
-> And I like FFMEG for it's raw controls.
Bob

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Don't feel bad.
Dec 28, 2014 1:15PM PST

I don't know what they are talking about either. So what kind of video clip, and what format is it's in? The whole idea is to convert its format to the video format that your TV will play. Of course what Robert suggest is a player hopefully will play these video without you going through the conversion.