Divx5 freeze frame? [Archive]

titan_rw

9th June 2002, 00:40

Hi everbody.

I havn't seen anything on this subject posted before, so I hope I'm not breaking any rules.

I have encoded a few movies with Gordian Knot into Divx5. When playing back these movies, at certain points, the video just freezes, while the audio continues. I never had this freeze frame problem with all my SBC Divx3.11 movies. I noticed it particularly with "Golden Eye", once during the pre-intro action scene, and once about 1/2 way through in the tank scene. I think the encoder is freezing decoding on a keyframe, as if I close the player (doesn't matter which one), and play the movie again (stop - then play doesn't help), I can fast forward to the keyframe immediatly after the bad one, and it works fine. But if the codec gets to the bad keyframe, the player refuses to playback video untill its shut down and started again. None of the D5 playback options make any difference.

Anything else I can try?

Fox Mulder

9th June 2002, 09:57

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26851

titan_rw

11th June 2002, 01:22

I had read that thread, those solutions didn't help. CPU is not maxed out, as task manager in windows 2000 shows 40% cpu used by the player. (1200 mhz Athlon, 512 meg ram, with a geforce4 ti4400.) Playing with the divx5 decoding options doesn't help.

lark

11th June 2002, 16:17

which player are you using?
have you tried other players?

regards
t :)

aleph

17th June 2002, 12:55

I also had these problems, and the only way I could find to fix them was to disable "smooth playback" in the decoder properties...

creative_cracker

17th June 2002, 21:54

I had the same problem you had, for no reason.

On another thread, someone suggested that color lever I had was to high (32-bit) and that I should lower it to 16-bit and it would help my problem. I am surprised, but it did. I never suspected something so simple.

The videos now play without freezing.

jggimi

17th June 2002, 22:24

Now, that sounds like a poor circumvention; divx has 24-bit color depth.

creative_cracker

17th June 2002, 23:10

Well, I had to take what I had. I have an Nvidia Gforce2 card with 60 mb ram but my color choices under settings are 256, Hi (16-bit) or 32-bit, which didn't do well at all. It works ok and the color is ok. javascript:smilie(':cool:')
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