By purchasing a Pioneer AVH P4200DVD, you assume that you can watch all video formats on this DVD player. But after installing it in your vehicle, you know if it can only play DivX format video. So what can you do?

Don’t waste your time whining and complaining. The first thing you need to do is dig into the information about all the video formats out there. Further focusing your effort on how to get them to run on your DVD player. Let’s go.

DivX
DivX is a video codec released by DivX in 2001 and mined since 1998 by French hacker Jerome Rota in Montpellier. DivX is different from DIVX or Digital Video Express. The latest stable version is 7 and it was released in 2009. Then in September 2010 DivX Plus Web Player (beta version) was released. In HTML5 video format, this version supports embedding other video codec formats like DivX, AVI, MKV, MP4 and MOV. The additional file format container also supports H264 video in MP4 or MOV.

AVI
AVI or Audio Video Interleaved is a multimedia container format produced by Microsoft as part of its Video Technology for Windows in November 1992. Recently, the original AVI specification failed to anticipate the faster growth of new computer video techniques. This format has several problems, such as it cannot reliably contain some specific types of VBR data, it does not provide a standardized way to encode aspect ratio information, and it is not designed to contain variable frame rate material.

Matroska
Matroska or The Matroska Multimedia Container (filename extension is MKV for video, MKA for audio, and MKS for subtitles) is a free, open standard container format that was created in December 2002. In 2010, Google sponsored the development of WebM, a multimedia container format that would be based on a Matroska profile by VP8 format in video and Vorbis in audio. This means that a Matroska will be bigger and more important than the current one.

Fast time
QuickTime File Format (filename extension is MOV) is an extensible proprietary multimedia framework produced by Apple Inc. MOV capable of handling various formats of sound, image, digital video, panoramic images and interactivity. QuickTime is integrated with MacOS X and can be downloaded for Windows as a stand-alone installation.

Four is a famous video format and many others available out there. But the problem of DVD player in AVH P4200 is that it only supports DivX file. So what can you do if you own a MKV or MOV file?

You have three options. First of all, don’t buy an AVH P4200 and look for other car videos that support your files. Second, don’t watch movies that this Pioneer can’t play. Third, convert your files to DivX format. This is a better option.

So how to convert MKV or AVI file to DivX format? Find a video conversion software. Don’t worry, there are many free versions of downloadable software, one of them is DivX Plus Converter. Choose a movie file to convert as a sample and play it on your AVH P4200. If you are satisfied with the conversion result, you can convert more files. But the free version of DivX Plus Converter and DivX Plus Codec Pack is only available for 15 days. After that, you can purchase a Pro version and get a 30-day money back guarantee.

With the DivX Pro version, you can create a DivX file by unlocking the pro features. You can easily convert MKV, WMV, AVI, MOV and MP4 files to DivX. You can create a DivX file in your favorite video application like VirtualDub or Sony Vegas. You can also use preset profiles to make high-quality DivX videos for DivX HD, DivX home theater, or DivX wireless devices.

You can save the new files to a USB flash drive or burn them to a blank DVD. After that, you connected the file in the middle to the AVH P4200 DVD player. And voila, you can watch Megan Fox action or enjoy Justin Bieber’s performance.