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Panasonic DVD-LS850 XviD Recipe

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SOME UPDATES ON THIS MATTER, JULY 2008:
- Handbrake 0.9.2 can’t encode to XVID.  This is a known issue that they appear not to be in a hurry to fix.  They have released recent builds they are reluctant to make canon, so try them or stick with 0.9.1.

- This recipe has resulted in a number of great quality, non-skippy XviD files that play like butter in the aforementioned Panasonic player and have kept children I care about quiet for hours, in the car and on planes.

- Putting other kinds of non-dvd online video files directly into Burn and choosing a DivX disc will cause burn to convert them and burn a disc that plays just fine in these players too.

Nobody on the internets has yet confirmed whether this DivX-certified player can play similar.  [I did.]  I can confirm tonight that you can use free software on a Mac to back up your DVDs to a playable format. I would imagine these instructions will work on the DVD-LS80 and the DVD-LS82, since the manual that came with my 850 appears to be the one packed in with those too.

  • [optional] Rip the discs with MacTheRipper
  • Run the DVD [or ripped VIDEO_TS] through Handbrake

    • Change the following under Output settings
    Format:AVI file
    Codecs:MPEG-4 Video/MP3 Audio
    Encoder: XviD
    If you queue, make sure you change the file name for each segment.

  • Now, fire up Burn.
    Click the Video tab at the top of the Burn window.
    Change the menu next to your disc title from “VCD” to “DivX”.
    Click the + button and find the files you want, or drag your AVI files into the window and add them to the list. Click the “Burn” button at the bottom of the window.
  • Put the disc in the player. It should list each file as a video segment. You can “play all” and skip between them or I think choose the segment you want from the menu.

The manual says to name the files 001[whatever].avi, 002[whatever].avi, 003[whatever].avi and it’ll play them in that order, but from my [limited] experience, files will show up as long as they’ve got an .avi extension. To be honest, I cannot confirm whether the files will play absolutely skip-free, since they’re not officially DivX 5 or whatever. I hope to test tonight and maybe make changes in the picture settings if necessary, but I’m sure I’ll know by this time tomorrow regardless.