Bug in DivX decoder? Advanced Hardware Overlay ruins video [Archive]

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DJ Bobo

5th March 2009, 01:21

Here's how the video looks like when AHO is used:

http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/1038/divxoverlay.jpg

The jaggies and the shaking disappear if I disable AHO.

Is this a known problem? Is there a solution?
Because it seems necessary to view anamorphic encodes correctly.

setarip_old

5th March 2009, 02:13

@DJ Bobo

Hi!

Is the software in your signature ("Lancer") freeware?

LoRd_MuldeR

5th March 2009, 03:02

Is the software in your signature ("Lancer") freeware?

These are optimized builds of the Ogg Vorbis encoders/decoders, so it's OpenSource ;)

Anyway, the latest builds on that site date back to 2006, so they are pretty much outdated now...

@DJ Bobo:

What does "AHO" mean? :confused:

Sharktooth

5th March 2009, 04:02

advanced hardware overlay

LoRd_MuldeR

6th March 2009, 02:55

I don't know what that option is supposed to do, but if the DivX Decoder fails, I'd simply use ffdshow instead ;)

DJ Bobo

6th March 2009, 14:47

I'd like too, but I have some older DivX 5 encodes that won't play right unless I use the DivX decoder.

~bT~

6th March 2009, 15:00

^ what about divx7?

DJ Bobo

6th March 2009, 16:13

This is using the DivX 7 decoder (which is the same as the latest DivX 6, isn't it?)

~bT~

6th March 2009, 16:16

^ so u haven't tried it?

DJ Bobo

6th March 2009, 17:26

Try what? Did you?

LoRd_MuldeR

7th March 2009, 00:09

I'd like too, but I have some older DivX 5 encodes that won't play right unless I use the DivX decoder.

ffdshow should support streams created by DivX 5. What is the problem?

DJ Bobo

7th March 2009, 01:06

ffdshow should support streams created by DivX 5. What is the problem?

The problem is... it should, but it doesn't. There was some versions of DivX 5 that didn't produce standard streams.

LoRd_MuldeR

7th March 2009, 01:15

The problem is... it should, but it doesn't.

That's not a useful error description :rolleyes:

Did you try both decoders, "libavcodec" and "Xvid", in ffdshow? Also the "Workaround encoder bugs" box on the "Decoder options" page may be helpful...

DJ Bobo

7th March 2009, 02:06

I tried a lot of options, none helped.
After much testing, I found that the DivX 5 decoder is the only one that plays correctly absolutely everything I throw at it, and anamorphic encodes get displayed correctly with it too.
I'll stick with it until DivX fixes this AHO thing.
For those interested, HERE (http://rapidshare.com/files/206247331/DivXLight-511.exe.html) a decoder-only version of DivX 5.1.1.

DJ Bobo

12th March 2009, 16:40

DivX 7.1 was released today and it doesn't solve this issue...