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I don't have filemaker in front of me because I don't have it at this job, but I THINK there is something called a container field which would work. I know I have used it for pictures. You should then be able to make a button that lets one search for the file. I am sorry that I can't be more help, but without the program to play with, I can't quite remember what to do.
I don't know what version you have, but I googled this:
It looks like you can drag and drop into the container field, as well.
Thanks, I'll try that.
I have had success burning a VCD from an avi file and watching it on my dvd player.
How would one do that?
I used Nero. Open Nero, tell it you want to burn a VCD, drag the .avi file into the box, away you go. Of course that only works if the .avi is small enough to fit onto the CD; the HDTV files aren't always, and the conversion process makes them bigger.
I used Nero. Open Nero, tell it you want to burn a VCD, drag the .avi file into the box, away you go. Of course that only works if the .avi is small enough to fit onto the CD; the HDTV files aren't always, and the conversion process makes them bigger.
Interesting. I have Sonic MyDVD, and it seems to be able to do the VCD thing, although I can't...hold on a sec, a VCD is an actual CD, right? Not a DVD? I wonder if my DVD player can play those things.
I wonder if my DVD player can play those things.
Newer DVD players are more likely to have that feature.
Mine's a few years old. I am wary. I'll try it out tonight. But my friend has a pretty high-tech one that also burns DVDs and shit, so it would probably be able to play them.
My crappy old dvd player could play VCDs, although I ended up replacing it when it started choking on home-burned dvds & vid collections.
What model do you have P-C? Maybe we can find out what formats it plays on The Internets or using The Google.
Some of the older off-brand DVD players actually have a lot of undocumented capability. It took my dad several tries to get an Apex (I believe) DVD player that actually worked, but once he found one it could play pretty much any format you threw at it as long as it could fit on a DVD or CD. The newer ones don't have the same level of functionality, though.
As for more name brand, my Phillips can play DVD, DVDRs of assorted formats, CD, VCD, SVCD, mp3, mpeg1 and mpeg2 and it cost me something like $80 4 years ago (I bought it specifically because it had VCD capability so I could watch Firefly eps on it back before the DVDs were even rumored to be happening) I wouldn't be surprised if yours could handle VCDs.