DivX5.2 pro ?

[chronicking]

hello. i converted a personal dvd[ALIEN3] of mine to an .avi file [divx] and it works on my pc when i use classic media player to view it. my divx player won't play it but vlc will and like i stated mpc. i used 5.2 pro codec to make this file and after having to do it a couple times til i got the resize right and i burned it to a dvd to watch on my phillips stand alone dvd player on my television. well it starts to play but like about 10 minutes into it , it shuts off. this is a very big avi. it's like 4.3 gigs. is there a limitation on the size of the file when using divx?
also instead of compressing the audio i used the original 6 channel ac3 file from the original movie.
one more thing i noticed. when i play other avi files on my phillips player, right before they start playing you see a number/number in the top corner of the screen with "indexing" next to it. i don't see this when i play the big avi file that i made.
i'd appreciate any advice............thanx :stupid:

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Does the burned DVD play on your PC?

[DigitAl56K]

You may have problems with files larger than 2GB, the parser in the player may be using a signed 32-bit integer, leading to this limit. I would need to consult our certification team, but off the top of my head I think certain older devices may only handle up to 2GB, while newer ones should be able to handle up to 4GB. DivX HD devices should be able to handle AVI2, and therefore shouldn't have any real limits at all.

Is your file using AVI2 standard? If your older device doesn't support AVI2 then this may cause the playback to stop when it encounters a new RIFF chunk part way through the file. A firmware update may solve the problem if the manufacturer later added support. Always be careful when upgrading firmware, you could kill your box if you don't do it correctly, and check if upgrading the firmware will change the region code (for DVD playback). You don't want to lock yourself out of your DVD collection.

Although I don't think it will fix your problem, you ought to encode with DivX 6.6 (or grab 6.7 beta from DivX Labs). This offers better quality, or equal quality with smaller files. Generally you need to use excessively high bitrates to reach these file sizes for typical standard def content. If you really need to use such high rates, you could workaround the problem by splitting the file (e.g. using VirtualDubMod) into two parts each less than 2GB. If you name them alphabetically your player will most likely play one immediately after the other (this behavior depends on the particular device). You need to learn how to split your file correctly to avoid messing it up - I believe there are guides right here on Doom9 that can assist you.

[chronicking]

yes it plays on the pc to answer the first question, but it won't play on the divx player on my pc. this is an old version of the divx player and probably won't read files over 2 gigs like digital56k stated. i went ahead and made a smaller version of the same movie[under 2 gigs] and it plays without stopping on the standalone player thru my tv. apparently this was the problem....
the reason i'm encoding with 5.2pro is because i have six months of the encoder in pro mode. seamed like a deal since i still see so many files encoded with the divx3or4 codec still in mass circulation.
thanx for the replies.

[DigitAl56K]

Glad to hear that this solved your problem.

I would still recommend giving DivX 6 a try - even if you do not register it you can use the DivX Community Codec absolutely free. It provides access to most settings through a performance/quality trade-off slider, and even though it is the free version should still offer substantially better quality than DivX 5.2.

[chronicking]

the 2 gig limit was apparently my prob. my standalone players will play anything up to 2 gigs. it won't even try to read the index of anything bigger...... i took your advice and upped to the newer version of divx and it worked good and had alot more encoding speeds to choose from. one prob though, when i try playing these smaller than 2 gig files on me dvd standalone player thru my television they skip, hop, jump, change color, etc etc. i've tried many different settings and made sure it was compliant. i also made the settings as close to the 521pro codec as possible and still no cigar..............needless to say i went back to 521. apparently these older players i have are not compatible with 6.0 and above divx encoders on the bigger files.....

i have a dell 3ghz dual core [HyperThread] processor and i use divx pro 5.2.1. everything seemed to work fine until i had to reinstall divx. divx still works and all, but now when i do a 3 pass encode [fast, standard, slow] it takes much less time. the last two passes, standard and slow, take just about the same time and take just a little bit more time than when the encoder is set to "fast". this just doesn't seem right to me. i know in the past it took much longer than this, especially on the slow setting. i installed a newer version of divx [6.03] and the encode times went back to normal or closer to the way it was anyway. like 3 hrs or so for a 1hr13min animated movie{poohbear}on the slow setting.

i may be paranoid but it seems to me that divx521[my version] is doing the final two passes on standard speed even tho i'm setting the final pass to be on slow...........if anyone has had similiar incidents or perhaps by reading this recognize an encoding flaw of mine, please answer this thread and let me know. i really want to get that final pass on the slow settings for quality. i share alot of my encodes and you never know, you may end up with one, so please help novice out.
thanx.:stupid:

[delacroixp]

I had my first taste of encoding with DivX Pro 5.2 and I never looked back untill now.
It's nice to see that the old stuff still works in an age when most people feel that the latest and greatest is always best.

We seam to live in a 'parallel universe' where numerous older/younger codecs are doing the rounds simultaneously with varying degrees of popularity with the public, geeks and business-community.
A new codec seams to start off popular with the geeks where nobody is making any money and then migrate to the public at large where everyone is making money and then fizzle and die...

DivX 5.2 was clearly a work of genius that has stood the test of time... nice to see that it still works for you...


:):devil::D
Pascal


BTW
I never tried 3-pass with 5.2 ... fell in love with 1-pass constant-quality DivX 6 ... and then found a home with CQ-H264.