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MPEG4 & AVI formats - ? What do they mean?
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I too am struggling with this, although for differnt reasons (I have a media player that requires certain types rather than a DVD player)
So far I have got to the point of working out that AVI is the file format which is a "container". Mpeg4 is a "codec".
Containers can hold various codecs. In your case it sounds like the camcorder is using the mpeg4 codec to compress the file and stores it in an avi container.
As for watching on your DVD player, I would have thought your camcorder would have come with software to burn your files onto a DVD in the correct format for DVD players. Again no expert, but I undestand these are MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files that converted to DVD structure files .VOB and .ifo
As you have found, this isn't avi or mpeg4 (although newer DVD players are about to start supporting them).
Hope this helps at least a little.
PS just out of interest, I use QuickTime Pro or ImTOO Encoder for conversion of file formats and Nero for DVD burning.
mpeg files are generally larger than avi which is why the latter are common for files which are downloaded.
Heres the info http://www.winavi.com/
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