Did they ever fix all the audio problems with Divx?

[atreides93]

I used to backup my movies to DIVX but since I got a DVD burner a while back I gave up on DIVX and forgot about it.

I played around a bit with Divx 5.02 and it looks like they finally improved the video quality to the point where it looks as good as the original DVD (to my eyes).

The only major issue I always had though was the sound. I was pulling my hair out because of the incredibly annoying issues with sound delays. You know how you'd play the movie and half way through the sound would lose sync, or just randomly lose sync with the video? That would drive me nuts. I wonder if it was because of the mp3 codec having bugs? I never solved this issue

I never see those audio sync issues with my DVD backups...

So my question is, is it worth using DIVX anymore?
I see there are some DIVX capable DVD players out there...that is interesting....so I could fit a LOT of DIVX video on a dvd-r...

[SeeMoreDigital]

Originally posted by atreides93
... So my question is, is it worth using DIVX anymore?
I see there are some DIVX capable DVD players out there...that is interesting....so I could fit a LOT of DIVX video on a dvd-r... DivX is really cool. The quality is excellent. There are no audio/video sync problems that I have found. I still use DivX 5.0.2 from time to time because it can generate can files for use within an Mp4 comntainer! But the latest version DivX 5.1.0 is a very good product indeed.

If you want to play DivX in hardware and have a spare PCI slot in your PC I would recommend an Sigma Xcard (It can decode Mpeg1, Mpeg2 and Mpeg4 files). But that's not to say that the stand-alone hardware players are poor. It's like anything else, you get what you pay for!

And as for storing loads of encodes on a DVD R/RW, there's no problem with this either. Putting 5-6 hours on a single disc provides great results. I currently generate 90min to 120min encodes to store either onto an 800MB CD R or my 'Media PC'. These look fine for TV playback which means upto 12 hours could be stored onto a single DVD R/RW!

Don't delay, start encoding today!

Cheers