Larry,

Thanks once more for a dip into your encyclopedic store of web lore :-)

The portable I'm tryin' to play the rars on is 1133Mhz and 524MB of ram and
Videolan will start to play the movie but soon stops. Is it hardware and if
not, what am I
missin' ? There's no error msg, just seems to run outta gas.

Are the rar files what you are callin' divx or what ?

Courtney



"Larry" wrote in message
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"Courtney Thomas" wrote in
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how exactly can the movie be burned to a DVD rather than having to
view
it with Videolan ?


http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/B...o-dvd-osx.html

I never convert because I own an LG model LDA-511 DVD player, which plays
the divx movies directly as does my Magnavox portable DVD player. It's
much more compact to leave them all in Divx format, putting from 3 to 6
full length movies on a single DVD, instead of carrying around 6 DVDs to
play on the old players.

I'm not sure which of the conversion programs on freedownloadscenter is
better than any of the others because I never use them. Sorry I can't
help you further.

The LG is a great unit for a boat. It loads in a tiny slot like a car CD
player, reducing to zero the chance of breaking off some flimsy DVD drive
drawer like your laptop has on it. Too bad laptops don't use this
slotted drive, either. The unit is wide and fairly long but less than
1" high, making it fit under my Gateway 21" monitor with the HDMI input
so I can watch movies on the LG while on the computer...Picture-In-A-
Picture (PIP) mode...without the movies eating into the CPU time on the
computer...(c;

Another thing that's done to the LDA-511 is to break open its region
restrictions so you can play ANY DVD from ANY region in ANY format...even
upconverting any of them to HDMI for your big video screen in 1080i
format, digital TV. If you cruise or fly worldwide, the LDA-511 allows
you to play ALL the DVDs you buy from foreign countries your USA-only
player will not play by design from the movie moguls trying to bleed you.
Screw them....:
http://110220electronics.com/osc/pro...roducts_id=380


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