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Frustrated?
We hope we can help by answering some of the most
Frequently Asked Questions on video viewing and more.
 

 
 
F.A.Q.
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How do I know which video and audio codecs I need to play my file?
What is a codec? I keep hearing about divx and xvid.  Why do I need codecs to play my video and audio files?
Can I create a DVD with my CD-R writer?
Can I play AVI format files on a stand-alone dvd player without having to convert (encode) them? I want to watch them on my TV and not the computer.
My .mpg is 802,035,452 bytes but I can still fit it onto a cdr.  How is that possible? My .avi is 733,458,187 bytes, but when I put it in Nero it says 699 MB. Why?
What's avi, mpg, vcd, svcd, xvcd, dvd, vob. . .  What's the difference?
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The audio is out of sync with the video of my AVI. Is there any way to fix this?
I get a green screen when I play my avi.  My file freezes after 10 seconds.   A movie plays great on my friend's pc, but terribly on mine. Why?
How come the .mpg I burned to cdr won’t play on my stand-alone dvd player (the file is labeled VCD - I've had this happen with SVCD files as well). My player supports both vcd and svcd.
Why does my video play upside-down or get inverted when I burn it to disc?  What are ffdshow, bicubic resizer, G400 and direct show filters?
  B U R N I N G ,    S P L I T T I N G,    E X T R A C T I N G,    E T C .
How do I split an AVI file? Mine is too large to fit on a cdr.
How do I join several AVIs into one AVI file?
How can I split/cut/edit an MPEG file? I captured something from TV to my computer as .mpg, but it has commercials in it. How can I cut them out?
I want to burn my video files to cdr/dvdr? I have both .avi and .mpg files, do I need to burn them differently?
How do I burn my DVD format to DVDr? I see all these VOBs, BUPs and IFOs, how do i burn them?
What are bin and cue files, what's an iso? How do I burn them or load them?
I burned a vcd (.mpg) to cd and I want to copy it back onto my hard drive, but I see all these strange folders on the disk and no .mpg. What happened to it and how do I copy it?
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How do I rip a DVD and make it into an AVI (i.e. backup my dvds in avi format)?
How can I put my AVI on a cdr so that my standard stand-alone dvd player will play it (encode my AVI to VCD or SVCD)? 
How do I convert my AVI to DVD format (create a DVD MPEG from it so that I can author it and burn it to DVD)?
How do I author a DVD MPEG using TMPGEnc DVD Author and then burn it to DVD?
How do I author a DVD MPEG and burn to DVD using FREEWARE?
How do I extract the audio from my video file? Can I change the audio bitrate of my video to make the file a bit smaller? If so, how can I put the audio back?
  S U B T I T L E S
How do I merge subtitles that I have as a separate file into my avi format video file?
  A D V A N C E D
How do I capture from vhs or tv and make an avi, vcd, svcd....
How do I split and/or join MPEG files (vcd and svcd) using Mpeg Tools in TMPGEnc?
How do I mux and/or demux the audio of MPEG files (vcd and svcd) using Mpeg Tools in TMPGEnc?
I want to use mp3pro for the audio of the avi I'm encoding with Gordian Knot.   How can I do that, will Nero convert ac3 audio to mp3pro?