AVI Codec H263 Help

Greetings friends,

Need Help - I saw some similar threads but none sseem to help with my exact problem in a simple way, I am hoping there is one.

I have a mini camera that records in AVI format, which I liked because I have a dvd player that plays avi files. Well it was not that simple. This is recording things with the AVI extention, however everytime I try and play it tells me I need VIdeo Codec Fourcc Code H263, (they do play with this VLC program that came with the camera but that does not help me play them on my avi dvd player). Ok before you suggest one of these video decoder softwares I tried a few and they are not doing what I want.
I want something that will simply convert these compressed AVI files into the AVI files that dont ask for a h263codec that I am used to having and I can play on my avi dvd player as well as play on windows media players and so on.

Is there any program I can just take one of my new camera avi files, click a conversion button and then have a new AVI file that I can play on anything(avi compatible).

Thanks, Dan

 

The DVD player probably needs the AVI files to be encoded with a DivX or XVid compatible codec; my home DVD player will play AVI files too, but they must be in DivX/XVid format. So, run your video files through Dr. DivX (a free download available from here -> http://www.majorgeeks.com/Dr._DivX_d5208.html). It will convert the file to DivX format, and the end result will have a .divx extension. This shouldn't make a difference to the DVD player, but if it does, you can simply rename the file and use the .avi extension and all will be joyous. Dr. DivX is great; you can select custom files sizes so if the file you want to convert is 900mb and that's too big for a regular CD, instead of burning it to a DVD and wasting all that space, you can run it through Dr. DivX and select a custom file size of 700mb so it will fit on a regular CD. I do this all the time and have had nothing but great results. Dr. DivX takes about 20-30minutes to convert an 800-900mb file, so be patient. It's best to turn off your screen saver and anything running in the background, and to not use the PC when Dr. DivX is doing its thing.
I hope this helps! Good luck!

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or you can use k-lite codec:http://www.majorgeeks.com/K-Lite_Codec_Pack_Full_d4844.html,cos it have built in Intel I.263 codec(this is the same as you wanted:http://www.codecsdb.com/?page=codecinfo&type=video&code=I263).