Playing Dvds....

[BobzSarmotta]

HI..

After meeting up with Scotty the other day and him showing me the ropes in what my car can do... he enabled the VIM for me...

With the excitement of having this i thought it was a brilliant idea to burn some music videos to a dvd so the music would play and the video would play on screen.

I burnt the MP4 files to the dvd but it played the music but not the video.... after speaking to a mate, he said it would have to be burnt as a avi file, and so i went on my journey to convert them.

Once converted and burnt again... i tried it in the car but again.. nothing... just says the disk cannot be read (or words to that effect)

Has anyone made their own dvd to play in the car...? If so what format does the file have to be...? I dont believe the HDD MMI 3G would only play original DVDs... will it..?

Thanks again for all the gadgets unlocked on the car Scotty... This guy trully knows his stuff and is very knowledgable... Top Marks....!!!

[Zenerdiode]

I dont believe the HDD MMI 3G would only play original DVDs... will it..?

Probably not, but it will most likely have to be authored as a DVD; i.e. in the correct DVD format with .vob files etc.

Think of it this way, in the early days of burning your own CDs, you had to burn them so they would play in any CD player, having a 'single session' and making sure the session was closed etc. If you just added the .mp3 files to the disc, the reader would try to read them as raw music and fail. I'm guessing that's exactly what you have to do here, that the DVD player portion of the media reader is just that; and will not read and process multimedia files.

[ScottyUK]

I agree. The solution should simply be to create a DVD with the music files on i.e. a DVD that you could play in a normal DVD player.

There was this thread running recently ( http://audiforum.us/mmi/17211-mmi-avi-file.html ) but although it initially aludes that it can be done it doesn't really go anywhere. I tried a few AVI's in different formats on my SD just to have a quick check and got nowhere.


Thanks again for all the gadgets unlocked on the car Scotty... This guy trully knows his stuff and is very knowledgable... Top Marks....!!!

You were obviously easy to mislead! :biglaugh:

The clever guys are those that work the codes out. I've just got copies of their efforts and the right cable. :Blush2:

p.s. Cheers for the Stella. Most are chilling in my beer fridge ;)

p.p.s. I'm glad you posted as it reminded me about my fog lights. I can't find the seller on ebay but this is what I've got fitted. The bulbs in the picture are the OEM ones as the ones that came in that packaging are in my car. The difference is the blue tinit on the glass.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3628815/Car/A4_fogs.JPG

or you get something like this and stick in resistors to simulate the load :

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/H11-21-LED-FRONT-FOGLIGHT-BULBS-6000K-XENON-WHITE-DRL-/130386792640?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item1e5ba890c0

[BobzSarmotta]

Ok so ive tried loads of differnet files formats... from mp4 to avi to even convert and burn to dvd programs... None of them seem to work...

Feels like a big no no but something which seems soooo simple just cant be done...! Wot a bummer...

Scotty.... I found these.... What you reckon..... ?

http://www.autobulbsdirect.co.uk/H11-LED-Foglight-Bulb-NEW.html

But the ones you found are much cheaper..... ill have a look at normal ones first me thinks....

[ScottyUK]

I've no idea dude. The only LED I've ever added to any vehicle is the side light on my motorbikes and they don't have anything clever like CANbus.

I do know many people have bought LEDs are they've failed very quickly but that was a little while back. Hopefully they're better now.

[Hippogriff]

I dont believe the HDD MMI 3G would only play original DVDs... will it..?

Everything that I have learned about Audi's approach to things like this would imply "yes"; with a caveat on the word "original", as it's not that relevant here, of course. We mean properly formatted DVDs - not data DVDs or .AVI files just sat in folders or in the root.

Just what I suspect being the case here. I would give it up as a bad job.