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1st June 2011, 20:27 | #1 | Link |
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DivX playback on DVD Player not working
I'm having real problems trying to find the 4.x certification specification for DVD players that are supposed to be able to play back DivX AVI wrapped files.
I'm using the SUPER program to recode to 720x480 anamorphic widescreen, 29.97 fps video. The bitrate is set to 1296 and the audio is MP3. MEncoder is being used. Yet, no one is able to play said output on DVD players. I can play it just fine on my Blu-ray, but it is a lot newer. One person's DVD player has no video or audio, but the time display shows that it is being played at 2x. Any ideas as to why playback is not working? Also: When the encoding is started, the option for DivX player compatibility is selected. Last edited by MrVideo; 1st June 2011 at 20:42. |
2nd June 2011, 08:56 | #2 | Link |
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I found the problem!
Try a converter where the author of the application knows the ins & outs of video encoding and care a little about their products :P Something like MeGUI, StaxRip, HDConvertToX, XviD4PSP, AutoGK or Handbrake v0.93 ... all of which have some form of "Standalone Player" settings that actually work (personally tested all but Handbrake and AutoGK here) ... 7ek Last edited by 7ekno; 2nd June 2011 at 08:58. |
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I also believe that the issue is with SUPER, but have no proof one way or the other.
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Try avi.net from www.clonead.co.uk. I use it with Jawor's Xvid compilation http://jawormat.republika.pl/xvid.html (currently 1.3.2) The results are great.
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Yeah, forgot avi.NET, probably one of the best when source is DVD!
As for XviD4PSP, try here (still doing nightly builds): http://www.winnydows.com/ XviD4PSP's "Standard" AVI profile is the most hardware compatible one As far as MeGUI goes, as long as it has a standalone AVI player profile, does it matter what I call it (since all the others effectively also just call other programs like XviD, VirtualDub, AVIMux_GUI, etc) ?!? 7ek |
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I'm still awaiting results on the HDConvertToX test.
As for programs like MeGUI, it would be nice to list programs that are standalone as such and programs that are GUI wrappers that depend on other programs and what settings work the best. For MeGUI, saying that it has DivX standalone player settings, would be better. |
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Well, HDConvertToX didn't work either. The video is 720x480 anamorphic widescreen 16:9. 59.94 fps.
In this case the video at least showed up (a first), but the anamorphic widescreen was lost, i.e., it fulled the 4:3 screen instead of being letterboxed. The audio was out-of-sync and all of it was choppy. The DivX 4.x DVD player specs would come in real handy. |
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What's the make and model number of your (MPEG-2/MPEG-4) hardware player?
Not all hardware players or their A/V decoding chip-sets support anamorphic MPEG-4 decoding! Sufficed to say, you could be spending hours trying to do something that wont ever work with your hardware player!
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I'll dig out one of my "720(854)x480_Anamorphic_Test_Card.avi" samples for you guys to try. If the Toshiba can't display my .AVI sample correctly, it's game over!
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As mentioned earlier. Here's a link to a couple of 720x480 anamorphic test cards for you to try: http://www.mediafire.com/?3u3bkpssb72l7ze
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It's mod-16
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OK. According to one of the people involved, DivX videos have been encoded with a vertical height of 404, which is not mod16. How can that be?
My main work is HD using x264, as I personally changed to x264 quite a while ago. But, for some others who can't deal with HD, their mode of playback if DivX players. Downloading the test cards shortly. Last edited by MrVideo; 9th June 2011 at 11:03. |
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Based on the above posts, the DivX DVD player shouldn't be able to letterbox the 16:9 version. At most, all it will do is fill the 4:3 screen. |
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