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Originally Posted by pop80_uk
Im just confused how a avi file can be different than another.
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because a file extension is only a convenience to try & 'help' the playback software identify compatible files - on a computer you could probably rename an avi file with a txt extension, then use the 'open with' option to choose the appropriate playback program & it would work.
With an hardware device, such as a dvd player, the different encoding of various files is more easily 'flagged' by the file extension - so a dvd file will tend to be vob, rather than mpeg, for example.
- for files with an avi extension the player will only cope if it has the appropriate decoder (codec) built in to match the format the actual file is encoded with, such as divx