ALL Software Players Chopping Off Part Of XviD Video

[EpheMeroN]

Any XviD .avi that I make (example res = 960x544) has around 1/5th of the right side of the video overlayed with some purpley-green static in every software player I try to view the files with.

However, if I import the XviD .avi files into VirtualDub they are shown properly. Also, if I stream them to my XBOX using XBMC they're also shown correctly.

Is this a limitation of my video card? I've tested with MPC, VLC, and MPlayer. I'm really confused...

[foxyshadis]

Since you have MPC, try switching renderer in options->output. VMR7 or 9 renderless, preferably, since VMR7 windowed will use still overlay.

It most likely is a video card/driver problem, but you have to tell us what exactly you have. SiS is notorious for buggy overlay.

[SeeMoreDigital]

What is HR.avi?

[celtic_druid]

Xvid re-encode of a HDTV stream resized to ~960x544. So between the regular HDTV release and the 720p one.

Or basically a breach of rule 6.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Or basically a breach of rule 6.Indeed...... (using his best Teal'c impersonation)

[EpheMeroN]

Xvid re-encode of a HDTV stream resized to ~960x544. So between the regular HDTV release and the 720p one.

Or basically a breach of rule 6.
I don't appreciate you saying I breached rule 6 here. Just because I used the term HR doesn't mean I did not create these myself. I have a digital cable receiver that lets me rip the streams digitally using a firewire method I figured out how to do. These so-called "releases" are of my own doing.

[celtic_druid]

Ok then, I don't appreciate you saying that I said that you breached rule 6. Because technically I never did. All I did was define what a HR avi is.

Bit over defensive?

[EpheMeroN]

HR simply stands for HighRes. It doesn't have to mean it came from a "scene" release. Nevertheless, if I came off overdefensive, my apologies!

[SeeMoreDigital]

I would not consider encodes at 960x544 to be HR (high-resolution. Well not for an "all image" 16:9 shaped/square pixelled frame size!

Okay you have more "width" pixels (at 960) than a PAL DVD but less "vertical" pixels (at 544) - Which is where you want pixels...

[CruNcher]

In the industry i would say this kind of res is called ICT and surely not HR :D
but yeah the Scene has silly names for such stuff hehe

[EpheMeroN]

Since you have MPC, try switching renderer in options->output. VMR7 or 9 renderless, preferably, since VMR7 windowed will use still overlay.

It most likely is a video card/driver problem, but you have to tell us what exactly you have. SiS is notorious for buggy overlay.
I tried both and neither worked.

My video card is an older one: ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro

[G_M_C]

For any-ones information; HR is just a abbreviation, meaning Half Resolution (1920x1080 --> 960x544). And this abbriviation is used a lot in some places; But just mentioning it doesn't mean that he's doing something wrong.

In BSPlayer (one of the older FREE version), there were 2 different settings to the overlay; mode 1 and mode 2. I had similar problems with my AIW9800SE (@pro). But one of the two modes worked (cant remember wich one sorry).

[quake74]

For any-ones information; HR is just a abbreviation, meaning Half Resolution (1920x1080 --> 960x544).

I am trying really hard not to point out that that's not half of the original resolution, but a quarter... ;)

For the original problem. try with the different -vo options of mplayer and see what happens there (you get a list of possible options by "mplayer -vo help").

[olyteddy]

To resolve if it is a driver/overlay issue, Run dXdiag and shut off all acceleration. If the vid plays, turn em back on one at a time.

[EpheMeroN]

To resolve if it is a driver/overlay issue, Run dXdiag and shut off all acceleration. If the vid plays, turn em back on one at a time.
I did what you said. When I disabled the first option called "DirectDraw Acceleration" all 3 options were disabled. The video finally played back without the green/purple static! However, now the video plays very choppy. I guess this system cannot handle that resolution for a video. Funny that a regular XBOX can playback these videos perfectly and it's not too powerful.

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/621/untitledgc1.jpg

[KoD]

RAGE 128 cards are very old, much older than the nvidia gfx chip Xbox has. Try using only YUY2 output in your decoder, see if it helps.

[EpheMeroN]

Would I specify the YUY2 from within a video card config somewhere? Or since I encode these to XviD, do I specify YUY2 only output from the XviD Decoder?

[clsid]

There is an option to force output in the YUY2 colorspace in the Xvid decoder.