Dr. Divx. Anyone tried it yet?

[apeness]

hey, i'm just wondering if Dr. Divx is any good.
feel free to comment and compare it eith the freeware.
and tell me what's the output quality like.

thanks a lot.

[killingspree]

i have tried it a little while ago but the result was imho not really breathtaking. anyway, I personally still prefer the half gknot half manual method although i have to say that Dr.Divx is getting you through the process much faster.

steVe

[snowcrash]

Why don't you try it yourself? There's a 15-day free trial.

Form a usability standpoint, it's very nice. Nice GUI, very easy to use, anyone could encode a movie with it.

The one time that I tried it I wasn't very happy with the quality of the result, but I'm not sure if it was the fault of Dr DIVX or maybe something I did wrong. I'm gonna give it another try when I get a chance.

[SeeMoreDigital]

I downloaded the trial version and quite liked it!

I was quite surprised that you could input say, a high-def .wmv file and generate a high-def DivX file.

And all the DivX settings are there, but just moved out of harms way!

[BloodyRipper]

well. i see only good opinions about this doctor here. but i heard something else - "dr. divx crashes after doing the 1st pass". i tried to download the trial, but 10MB is too much for me (polish connections - if aleksander will be here, he'll understand ;-)). i'll try to download the program and write my opinion (i'm using the DivX PRO Kauehi)

[dTb]

BloodyRipper, Dr. Divx has it's own compressor totally independant of any divx codec you have installed on your system so it won't use Kauehi.

[Doobie]

DR DIVX is only an option for people who will use Divx 5 and CBR MP3 in AVIs.

It's very easy to use but if you're going to do a lot of tweaking, DR DIVX isn't really much easier than the next thing but it is more limiting than the next thing.

[pacohaas]

Originally posted by Doobie
DR DIVX is only an option for people who will use Divx 5 and CBR MP3 in AVIs.Not quite so...the DivX 5 part is certainly true, but it has an option to process without audio, then you can simply mux in an AC3, VBR mp3, or whatever after it's done.

It also has an option to specify audio from a separate file(ac3, mp3, wav), but i believe it re-encodes those to cbr mp3's.

[ammer]

it looks to be something that is supposed to be very easy to use. it seems that easy.

[ammer]

and generally the general market demographics likes very easy to use software.

[rozemab]

I have been using Dr Divx for the past two months. At that time I was a newbie just trying to learn compression in general. I had recently purchased a new camcorder and wanted a way to compress DV video to share with family.

I believe Dr Divx received some bad press not due to problems within the s/w but due to the encoding environment of the end user. It appears the encoding 'packs' (Nimo etc.) caused conflicts within Dr Divx that led to crashes. Most people were successful once they cleaned up their encoding environment.

Dr Divx had (and still has) some problems. It should be noted that there has been two releases to address bugs found in the program. The forum on www.divx.com for Dr Divx is very active and seems supportive of the users.

I believe Dr Divx is actually good for the encoding community. It helps those new to this science learn quickly and show early results. It will encourage those wanting to learn more to more robust tools like vdub and avisynth, etc. .

Will I continue to use Dr Divx? yes, absolutely! This is a tool that accomplishes what I need to get done. Will I move onto other tools? yes, given I have the time to learn them.

my .02 worth, Brian

[pacohaas]

After reading this thread, i decided to test it a little more and would like to say I have been pretty impressed with what it can do (as well as disappointed in what it can't...IVTC and some bugs left). I especially like the EKG integration. I'll elaborate for those who aren't sure what that is or how to use it.

I set up a 2-pass encode at a specific bitrate, processed the audio separately with BeSweet of course, then when the 2nd pass finished it gave me the option to adjust the bitrate modulation. It then took me into the EKG program and I set it up so the main movie was at 200%, while the credits were at 50%. I also set up so the 30th Century Fox(yes, it's futurama) logo had around 75%. I did some other minor tweaking to certain parts of scenes and then you go up to the menu and press "Save And Encode" and it brings you back to the doctor with the new job added to the batch processor.

a couple things:
There seems to be a bug that prevents you from using the EKG correctly because it cuts off some frams or something, i'm not sure (it just reported to me that the log file and the avi file did not have the same # of frames, and true the newly encoded AVI seemed to be missing frames at the end where i lessened the credit bitrate, but still the right idea is there)
I hope they get around to letting you use CQ mode, but specifying different Q values for different frame ranges. That way you could use your regular Q value for most of the movie and 20 or something for the credits without the need to do 2 separate encodes.

conclusion: all-in-all it's a pretty neat (and fast) little tool, but it needs some work to be truely out of beta status so I wouldn't pay for it now unless you got some money burning a hole that would be put to better use in the divx developers pockets.

[zag2me]

Well, iv tested it and I must say that the software fills a particular void for people who just want to encode and go. The tool is also very usefull to users of hardware players for quick and easy conversions.