Are you an avid downloader of videos and movies (legally) online? Do you prefer to watch movies on your DVD player? It turns out, many people prefer to experience a good movie while relaxing on a sofa and watching it on a television screen. Unfortunately, if you have an older DVD player, you won’t be able to play MP4 videos directly from a USB or other external media.
The reason for this is that the standard AAC audio codec is incompatible with DVD players due to license restrictions. On the other hand, the MP3 audio codec is universally accepted. The open source version of DivX video codec is Xvid (essentially DivX spelled backwards) and is accepted by many DVD players including older ones displaying the DivX logo.
For Windows and Mac users, there are numerous applications to convert MP4 files and other formats into AVI format which older DVD players can play back. The story is different on Linux. There aren’t as many solutions and the process to actually get it done is sometimes too technical.
This MakeTechEasier solution is actually quite easy. Enter WinFF, a free open source video converter published under the GNU public license v3. It is cross platform and can be used on both Linux and Windows and supports several languages. Below is a tutorial on how to install and use WinFF in Ubuntu (Trusty Tahr).
Downloading and Installing WinFF
