Choppy XViD

[Smoke85]

Hi all !

After creating a lot of succesfull XViD movies, I noticed I had a really old version of Koepie's XViD build installed (XviD-04102002-1), so I decided to install the latest version (1.0 RC4). I use GK 28.5 and it worked, but the resulting movie was very choppy, like playing it on an old Pentium I. So I installed an older version (the one from GK Codec Pack 6) and recoded the movie but still the same problem...

I use DVD2AVI to create a d2v project from the VOB's and GK 28.5 to create a 350MB XVID. Movie is a PAL 4:3 non-anamorphic TV episode, Bits / Pixel * Frame is around 0.2 so that should be enough...

Any idea how to fix this ???

Greetz,

Smoke

[Tuning]

Only Latest version (0.28.8) supports XviD 1.0..so you may need to try encoding with this version.

[Smoke85]

Ok I've installed latest XViD codec pack and latest GK but the problem remains: my movie plays as if it's encoded at 10fps ! :(

But it's getting better: I reïnstalled my old XViD codec (12-2002) and tried again. But at the start of the 2nd pass, vitualdubmod gave me a video compression error (-100). I searched this forum for that error, and found a message from Koepie himself telling that this error is caused by an invalid path to the stats-file.

Since GK can do only 2nd pass I tried to do this, and selected the stats-file manually (checked the logs: path and filename are correct) but I still got the -100 error. I alsp tried resetting to default options but that didn't help...

Now here's the strange part: since I didn't know what to do I intstalled the lastest XViD Codec (RC4) and guess what: NO MORE -100 ERROR ! Of course I couldn't finish the 2nd pass since the 1ste pass done with another version of the codec but anyway, it seems that the video compression error can have other causes then mentioned here on this forum.

A few minutes ago I tried to rip and encode a short music-video at higher bitrate (1800) but it still plays jerky (tried different players and other xvid movies play just fine). I use standard XViD settings and have lastest version of everything !

More ideas ???

[Smoke85]

Okay, after browsing this and other forums I've solved the problem: it seems to be a ffdshow decoding problem, ffdshow can't handle Packed Bitstream from the lastest XViD codecs...

DISABLING Packed Bitstream in XViD settings solved the problem and gave me a perfect looking movie !

I hope this helps for you too !


P.S. Can anyone explain me what Packed Bitstream does, and what happens if I disable it ?