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PeteSapai
10th October 2002, 16:17
I got 2 problems. I encoded Blood: The Last Vampire using the doom9 divx5(pro) guide. Download this (ftp://doom9:blood@131.211.235.250:1234/blood-intro.avi) file (154 kB) to see the problem. The subs are ok the rest of the movie, it's only during the intro (which is longer than that file). I though it might be cuz the codec doenst use enough bits, thus leaving out half of the info (subs), but I think if the not enough bits was the problem, that the subs wouldnt be left out, but would just be worse quality...
The 2nd problem is the freeze frame. The image freezes at 02:52 (and 2 more times in the movie. when audio is added, the audio plays on) in Global DivX Player and mplayer 6.4 and 7. DivX Player 2.0 alpha plays on, but dont tell me to use that one (I will from now on, but I want the video to be played in mplayer too). VDub doesnt detect a bad frame and if it freezes, the frozen image stays, untill I open another movie. I've encoded the 1st 3 minutes several times (with different settings) and it keeps freezing at the exact same spot.
I dont think this is of much use solving the problem, but here is my system info:
Duron 750, GF3 Ti200, 256MB PC133, Samsung SD-616 (DVD drive), WinXP, GordianKnot 0.26 Beta, DivX 5.02Pro.
well, if noone finds a solution I'll just encode the intro without subs, append the rest of the movie with subs and play it with DivX Player only.

oh, one more thing: A big sample (19MB, 3m10s) with almost the entire intro and the freeze-frame and a small sample (1.7MB, 18s) with the freeze-frame can be found here:
ftp://doom9:blood@131.211.235.250:1234

DJ Bobo
10th October 2002, 17:10
1) The problem with the subs is probably caused by GMC.
GMC is known to be buggy. Don't ever use GMC till DivX Networks releases a fixed version. The only save option of DivX5 pro is bidirectional encoding.

2) There is no freeze frames with DivX5. You probably enabled "Smooth Playback" on the playback filter settings, which causes the video to freeze sometimes.

BTW, I hate that movie :D

PeteSapai
10th October 2002, 20:44
disabling smooth playback solved the freeze, thnx! But disabling GMC only made things worse, just take a look at this (ftp://doom9:blood@131.211.235.250:1234/blood-no_gmc.avi) sample... any other ideas?

DJ Bobo
10th October 2002, 23:20
I've seen those color blocks only with cracked versions of DivX5 pro.
So if you're using a cracked version, uninstall it and install the GAIN version from the divx site.

If that is not the problem, I'll recommend you to keep the subs switchable. Just extract them using VobSub, rename them as the AVI and put/burn them on the same directory

PeteSapai
12th October 2002, 03:37
yup, I did use the cracked version, but I just uninstalled it and installed the GAIN version and got even more weird colorblocks and disturbed subs than before. maybe a clean install (windows re-install) will work, but I cant do that right now. Weird though, most people seem to have problems using GMC, I get em when not using gmc :s