Conversion of MVI video files

Hi EBMB,

If your media is in a different format, you’ll need to convert it. There's a third party applications that you can use to convert it. This guide is for burning video and other media meant for a DVD player, not simply a data DVD. You may use Windows DVD maker to burn your own movies or photo collections. Thus, it only supports the following file types:

• Video files: ASF, AVI, DVR-MS, M1V, MP2, MP2V, MPE, MPEG, MPG, MPV2, WM, WMV
• Photo files: BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, JFIF, JPE, JPEG, JPG, PNG, TIF, TIFF, WMF
• Sound files: AIF, AIFC, AIFF, ASF, AU, MP2, MP3, MPA, SND, WAV, WMA.

To go ahead with the conversion, follow the steps below:

1. Load Your Media. Open your DVD drive and insert a blank disc. Any type of burnable DVD (DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, etc.) should work, as long as your DVD burner supports it. Click the Start button, then type “dvd.” “Windows DVD Maker” should be the first result—click it to launch the program.
2. From the introductory screen, you can add photo and video files to the DVD storage and menu system. Click the “Add items” button to open a Windows Explorer menu, wherein you can search for and add video, audio, and photo files. You can add as many as you like, up to the limit of the blank disc in your DVD drive (typically four to eight gigabytes).
3. Click “Options” in the lower-right hand corner. This offers a few selections for authored DVDs—that is, DVDs intended to be played back as a movie rather than simply read as data.
4. Select a Menu. In this screen, you can select the menu that will appear before your video plays, assuming that’s how you set it up in the previous section. None of this is particularly important, it just lends a little extra flair to the presentation. Standard styles can be selected from the scrolling box on the left.
5. When you’re ready, click “Burn.” Now just wait—depending on how much data you’ve added to the disc it could take a few minutes or more than an hour to finish. When it’s done, pop it into any DVD player (or any other computer with a DVD drive and playback software) to enjoy your movie.

Let us know how it turns out.

Where are you getting these "MVI" files?

If your files are created by a Canon camera: 

Movie clips taken with IXUS 1000 HS, PowerShot Elph 500 HS, PowerShot SX 200IS, PowerShot SD 780IS and many other Canon cameras are normally saved as MVI_xxxx files. These MVI files are actually Motion-JPEG/H.264 encoded video with .AVI or .MOV as file extension. The SD MVI videos shooting at 640x480 end up as .avi files and HD MVI files at 1280x720 or full HD 1920x1080 .mov files. While, the MVI format does not playback or edit very well. To make Canon MVI videos playable on your PC with media player, editable for video editing programs like Window Movie Maker, you need to change MVI first as the above users mentioned.

The above paragraph is from a website that offers a product that will convert Canon camera video files to, for example, *.WMV files that can be played by Windows Media Player.  A Google search will turn up several of these products, but most, if not all, are not free (unless you're willing to have watermarks all over your movies). 

This website claims that its free version will convert Canon MVI files:  http://www.any-video-converter.com/free-mvi-converter.php  MVI is not, however, in the list of supported file formats:  http://www.any-video-converter.com/supported-formats.php  Also, my antivirus complains about some pages at this web site:  if you choose to install this product, be very careful during the installation process to avoid installing other programs that you do not want and that may adversely affect your system.

You might see if the free VLC player can play your files without conversion..  This is much more versatile that the video players natively available in Windows 7.  https://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html