weird xvid porblems

[xospecialk]

I've just started attempting to encode w/ xvid. i have the XviD-27072002-1 build installed. however, i recently installed the XviD-04102002-1 build, and the movies i have encoded with the previous build comes up as garbled video. all i see is different colored blocks and what not.

when i reinstall the earlier build, the reverse happens where everything i coded in the new build is just garbled video.

Im gonna assume its something on my end...any ideas?

thanks in advance

[Mango Madness]

good lord dude, those are ancient builds. Even though all said here is experimental/educational and whatever, the newer builds are quite usable in their current state (though probably not future proof, nor will any be until their is a unanimous (sp?) declared 1.0 stable build that is not alpha nor beta but release candidate). All of the february builds that i've come across are stable and produce excellent results in 2-pass situations even when aggressive settings are used.

Anyways, welcome to our humble gathering and i hope you don't get obsessive about quality like I do unless you wish to be anal about everything :)

[xospecialk]

so my guess would be that the stuff i encoded using the 27022002 build would not be viewable unless i take out my current build, and reinstall the earlier build, and vice versa?

and i grabbed the 04102002 build which is the latest binary...should i be working w/ the unstable binaries?

thanks mango :)

[Teegedeck]

Unfortunately, my memory doesn't go back till the 27072002-build. :) But I do have some encodings from back then that all are watchable with current builds. Perhaps it's a good idea - if you use unstable builds - to always follow their discussion on this forum. Also, you can use ffdshow and mp4player to check the MPEG4-standard complicance of the video produced with an XviD build.

[xospecialk]

Originally posted by Teegedeck
Unfortunately, my memory doesn't go back till the 27072002-build. :) But I do have some encodings from back then that all are watchable with current builds. Perhaps it's a good idea - if you use unstable builds - to always follow their discussion on this forum. Also, you can use ffdshow and mp4player to check the MPEG4-standard complicance of the video produced with an XviD build.

you see that what i remember, watching videos from way back when w/ a current build. thats why i think im doing something wrong on my end.

how do you use ffdshow and mp4player to check the standard compliance?

plus, now that i have the newest stable binary installed, if i try to open up the older encoded videos in nandub or virtual dub, it crashes...