Divx5.0.2 content incompatible with Divx5.0.0?

[Chu]

Hello all, I have been battling with a weird problem. I encoded a short clip, and distroed it to a couple people on Dalnet. Most people could play it fine, but a few could not. I have a fealing that the only thing those who could not play it back fine have in common is that they were using divx 5.0.0, and I encoded with 5.0.2. Is there a known compatiblity problem with these codecs?

-Chu

[Awatef]

of course incompatible, all people must have the latest divx version!

[ftack]

I wouldn't want to say 'of course' here. The original poster is referring to Divx 5.00 and divx 5.02. These should be perfectly compatible. The original poster could however be more specific about the 'incompatibility'. Is there no image, or do images freeze?

[jggimi]

But they are not compatible. As I recall, we went through this in the transition to 5.01 from 5. A 5.01 codec could play back 5, but a 5 codec could not play back 5.01 avi files.

I assume the same holds true for 5.02.

[ftack]

Then they should have called 5.02 6 instead?

[DJ Bobo]

@ ftack
If it was that easy, we would be by version 11 now :D

[Chu]

Still though, it would be nice if they hardcoded a picture saying 'This video was encoded with an updated version of divx5, please download the new version at www.divx.com' or something of that sorts, instead of just the black screen. Since windows doesn't complain about playing it back (just plays back a black window), its obvious the codec is doing SOMETHING. Considering how buggy 5.0.0 was, you'd think they would have done this :\

[Acaila]

Actually that wouldn't be possible. You get the black screen because windows is trying to play a video stream, but can't find a decoder for it. And the fact that an avi file can't contain content encoded with more than one codec means there's no way it could show you a message instead of that black screen.

At least DXN can't do that, but you can ask microsoft to change the black screen into something else.

[Chu]

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Actually that wouldn't be possible. You get the black screen because windows is trying to play a video stream, but can't find a decoder for it. And the fact that an avi file can't contain content encoded with more than one codec means there's no way it could show you a message instead of that black screen.

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Why a black screen (of the correct resolution) in place of that 'decompressor could not be found' error then?

[Acaila]

That's how microsoft made windows to respond, with a black screen. And my guess is that the size of the video is stored outside the video data itself, so it can correctly read the size, but not the content.

It's not very elegant, but that's the way it is :(