avi movie file works from pc but when burned as data file on blank cd, won't play from burned cd

the strangest thing happened. an avi movie is saved on my computer and it works just fine when i watch it. but then when i burned it on a cd-r blank cd and i try to watch it from the cd it won’t play. what’s the reason for that?

although i had burned many movies before and they all worked fine from the cd. but this new batch of movies that i burned don’t work when i try to watch them from the burned cd but the exact same movies work when i try and watch them from the files saved on my computer

uh, okay..

still waiting for an answer if anyone knows how i can fix that

I have same problem. Just burnt .avi file to cd. used videolan player and it won’t read it although file plays fine from harddrive.

Where was this file downloaded from? It could be because the file is slightly corrupted.

The same thing happened to me! It won’t play from the CD!

That’s pretty difficult to diagnose. But here’s things to look at:
1. Can you copy the file back from the cd back to the hard disk? (don’t worry about playing it, just copy it). If the copied file is playable you could suspect a slow cd drive. Usually if video files have very high bitrates and the cd-rom can’t keep up, it may appear as though it stalls.
2. if you can’t read the file at all when copying it from the disc it could indicate drive/disc incompatibility. you could try another brand of cd-r.
3. do you get specific error messages? like crc errors? do error messages appear in the event log? (they’ll appear under atapi or cd-rom messages) this could indicate a dirty lens, a scratched disc, or other physical malfunctions.
4. can the disc play in other people’s computers? then the drive is at fault again.

I have a similar problem, but the AVI data file video plays fine on my PS3, but the audio seems to be corrupted. However, the AVI file audio/video are both excellent when played from the computer hard drive...

DVD movie is encoded by MPEG2 standard. And your video will be converted into .IFO, .VOB,.BUP files.

Those video burned as data can be played on computer only, not for DVD or CD player.

Go this burn avi to dvd tutorial, you will work it out.

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