Is there a portable DVD player that can play Flash FLV files directly without my having to convert them to VOB or MPEG? I guess you'd call this a "Streaming" FLV media player.
Or, is there another format that I can convert FLV files to that DVD Players play it, that doesn't take so long to perform the conversion?
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Don't think there's a DVD player with Flash playback, but there's a few portable video/game players that do and have TV or S-Video outputs. So no need to convert or even burn to DVD. Just plug and play.
http://www.engadget.com/ta
Ceck out the MSI and the Gemei.
VCD and DVD are a propriety format owned by the Motion Picture Experts Group>MPEG
Flash is not supported neither is WMV.
On that there is no such portable player as they only support DVD and VCD.
The only DVD players I know of that will play Data discs support avi and divx formats with single mpeg videos burnt to a DVD as data but no flash.
As Fred indicated the only work around is to use a Video card with TV out!
connect the PC or an Xbox to the TV via composit or s_video.
AVS video converter will convert flv and burn to DVD.
http://avs4you.com/AVS-Vid
Hi WizeOwl:
To play your Flash converted video on this playet >> http://www.amazon.com/Coby
Once the FLV is converted to mepg
you'll need a DVD burner on your computer/Laptop with bundled software such as Roxio or Nero, a blank DVD-r / or CD-r and burn at speed x4
This flash is probably small in size and even converted to mpeg still small in size, when you consider a DVD disc holds 4.7 gig it's really waste of a DVD disc so you can burn this mpeg to cd as VCD, CD discs as cheaper than DVD.
If you have Nero Express use Nero Vision
here's a couple of guides to craete a VCD
http://www.weethet.nl/engl
Here's how to author the mpeg to DVD using Nero Vision
http://www.weethet.nl/engl
hmm the first link did not produce the List so here they are
http://www.weethet.nl/engl
http://www.weethet.nl/engl
Thank you glad to have helped out
maybe a long time until you see a flash player in a portable hardware since mpeg is and has always been the standards for video discs format.
maybe they'll look into supported players from flash drives or memory sticks to portable media player on mobiles etc.
Cheers Merete
Couldn't follow you or this thread with radar, WiseOwl: First you ask for a DVD player that plays Flash. Then you get a plethora of unrelated info that has nothing to do with a portable player.
Then you reiterate, in bold, that you are looking for a portable DVD player that plays flash.
Then you tell us that you already have a Coby DVD player and you're trying to get it to play flash.
Then you resign yourself to the fact that no portable FLV player exists, when I have provided you with links that they do.
Please note that DVD is, was, and always be the ultimate rubbish con. It's a useless piece of plastic that has been surpassed by flash drive technology.
I didn't mean to disrespect your input, Fred. In fact I found it quite valuable, not just for me, but for other readers of this forum. That's why I gave it an assist so that others can see it's importance.
Are you concerned that your reply was not given the credit for the answer to this question? I found that Merete's solution was best for me and I went with that. Your solution of those devices, as far as I could tell, cost over $200, and are not available in the stores around here, whereas I can get a DVD player for under $100. I may as well pay $500 and get a NetBook, or inexpensive Notebook in that case.
Thanks for explaining that wiseowl. No, I'm not a points junkie, but I'm a stickler for correct info. I just do this for fun and to keep ahead of the the power curve. But I'm still confused as to whether you have the device and want to encode DVD media for it, or you are looking for a new device. I'll give you me feelings on the technology anyway: As one who's emerged from a world where you had to walk to the cinema to see any form of moving pictures, and turn on an AM radio or listen to your parent's vinyl 78rpm records for music pleasure, I've never had much regard for either DVD or CD technology. Plastic crap in my opinion. Make no mistake, the world is rapidly moving away from both of these plastic disasters. CDs, of course replaced by compressed digital music, and DVD are being replaced by both large and portable digital storage devices.
Therefore I wouldn't waste a cent on anything that plays DVDs unless it was for the purpose of copying them onto digital storage media and then disposing of them or giving them away as I do.
An example of how simple this new techology can be is exhibited in a $75 digital set-top-box that I recently bought for my 3-year-old's bedroom. It has a USB connection, and given that it cost $75 I can now download anything from the Internet -- Youtube (which is in flash) etc and simply convert it to MPEG-2 video with MPEG-2 audio (it won't read AC3) and keep her occupied for hours with anything from cartoons to lessons. As stated I use both Prism and Super for these conversions. DVD doesn't come into play. You might also want to investigate what is called a "Media Player". These things are interfaces between your 1TB (or shatever) HDD storage and your TV. Meaning you can have a Terabyte of videos, movies etc on a HDD and simply plugged into your TV Media Player interface, which comes complete with remote control, and totally eliminate the troublesome DVD media.
You have to do a bit of snooping around though as some of the "media players" only read certain codecs like WMV or MPEG-2 etc. A bit similar to the situation you are in now.
Cheers
Disclaimer: The comments of Fred Shovel are not necessarily those of any sane person.
I got the DVD player because of the price, but if I found a better solution, I still have a week to return it for a refund or exchange.
What I want is a portable, battery operated media player that plays native flash .flv files, or whatever other formats the live internet webinars will be recorded to.
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by: MeretePosted on 2009-06-01 at 23:55:06ID: 24524316
Is this for computers?
VLC plays both DVD flash and quite a few other formats/ it also streams
http://www.videolan.org/vl
FLV also converts flash to mpeg quickly
Open VLC go to FILE then Wizard
If you wish to convert a flash to mpeg1
select Transcode / save to file
Next
Choose and browse to flash file lets call it Video then>Next
Click on Transcode Video and select mpeg1
Trans code Audio and select MP3
Next
Encapsulation format> mpeg1
Next
Additional Transcode
Here what I do to save the file in the same folder as the flash files select the CHOOSE then navigate to the folder of flash but then rename your current job The name of this flash file but add in .mpeg
Video-mpeg save and then hit finish
it will now convert it.
A 25 meg flash takes approx 10 secs to convert to mpeg
There is also Super
http://www.videohelp.com/t
http://forum.videohelp.com
Merete