Muxing DivX Files.

[warrenc@greatsoft.co.za]

Hey, all. I was wondering if someone could please Help me.

I have the following files (ripped and encoded from R2 Elm Street 1 movie). Although this should apply to anytihng.

After encoding etc i have the following files: Movie.Avi [with nothing except the video], Movie.ac3 [128kbps 2.0], The chapters [Frames,TimeCode,DivXMediaMaker,OGG formats], and the SubTitles [Srt, VobSub .Idx/.Sub format].

How can I mux all of these into a .DivX file - Video,Audio,Subs and Chapters.

Heres what I have tried:
1) Mux with virtualdub (or any variant) the video and audio. [ Chapters do not seem to work ].
2) Mux with DivXMux.Exe (works fine for video and audio but no chapters )
3) Using Sub2DivX to get the subtitles in works fine.

A few things i have learned:
1) You CAN do this.
2) I have been able to mux Audio/Video/Subs but no chapters.
3) Avi-MuxGUI does NOT work.
4) GordianKnot does NOT do this for AVI files.

Any help would please really be appreciated, maybe someone else can also find this helpfull.

Thanks in advance

[CWR03]

Try using VirtualDubMod and creating an .mkv instead of an .avi file. An .avi doesn't support chapters. Otherwise, you might consider re-ripping and re-encoding these files from scratch with a program that will automatically import and output the subs and chapters.

[warrenc@greatsoft.co.za]

That works fine. Thanks for the input.

However I want to use these files on my stand-alone DivX player. I know from experience they play subtitles embedded and I have a AVI file that has chapters, the player picks them up.

So it really is possible to do so.

I know DivXMediaBuilder does it.

[UserXP]

1. Use Avi-MuxGUI to combine the video with the audio
2. Use Sub2DivX to add the subtitles
3. Use DivXMediaBuilder (menu Tools - "One movie with chapters...") to add the chapters

NOTE: In order the chapters to work must have at least one menu (this is used by DivXMediaBuilder)

[warrenc@greatsoft.co.za]

Thanks, UserXP.

Will give it a shot when I get home tonight. So, It's possible to just have a START MOVIE menu with 1 button ?

PS: DivXMediaBuilder is a great piece of software, however can be a bit tough. But thanks very much for it, I love it.

[UserXP]

No need to put a start menu with 1 (play) button.
Just add a start menu (1 sec) and as exitAction set to play the main movie. This is used by DivXMediaBuilder.

[guru1968]

does the AVI generated in this way does work on the PS3 with all the features (multiple audio, subs, chapters) ??

I encountered that divXMux freezes for huge divx movies (the rotating slash stops rotating but the prog still consumes CPU time but does not continue muxxing, the result (upon aborting) is corrupt)

EDIT:
does the PS3 support/recognize DivxMedia at all (yet)?

[buzzqw]

I encountered that divXMux freezes for huge divx movies (the rotating slash stops rotating but the prog still consumes CPU time but does not continue muxxing, the result (upon aborting) is corrupt)

me too :angry:

does the PS3 support/recognize DivxMedia at all (yet)

yes

BHH

[guru1968]

then I give the 3-step muxing described above a try...

EDIT:
doesn't work either :-(
Sub2DivX also uses divXMux to mux-in the subtitles, so it freezes as well...

EDIT(2):
I just read in the official divx forum that "it's a well-known fact" that divXMux has problems with files larger than 4 Gig...
(that post was over 2 years old, so there's probably no solution to that!)

On the other hand - if you skip the subtitles, avi-Mux_GUI works pretty well even for larger video and multiple audio streams, only bad is that PS3 does not show the audio language (for smaller divXMux'ed AVIs it does!)...

Any divx-subtitle-muxxing alternative to divXMux anywhere around???