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Jeff D
9th February 2005, 00:06
A couple of weeks ago I was looking around for info on the 642 and xvid playback. This forum had two or more guys testing different resolution and formats of divx files. There was a lot about the way the "widescreen flag" was used. There were also lots of test files to burn, try and report. One of the guys was refrenced by the TLA for his name and I can't remember what that was. Maybe something like codec god or something else stating they understand the stuff. He didn't seem to have one of these players, but he could generate tests.

If anyone knows what the forum or thread is I'm talking about could you please post it? I'm trying to get the info to philips because they don't seem to understand that divx playback is always letterboxed when it's widescreen and the player is configured for widescreen.

I believe the site was european. There was talk about PAL and NTSC.


I've finally got a line into engineering and they want to see the information these guys have. I just can't find the information now...

Jeff D
9th February 2005, 19:20
Dumb ass move... searching through my history I think I found it.

Make it worse the thread is HERE on doom9, doh!

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77641

SeeMoreDigital
10th February 2005, 11:41
If you had searched around the forum a bit more you would have found that currently "all" Philips players fitted with the ESS Vibratto chip-set (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82765) have problems displaying 16:9 square pixelled encodes on a 16:9 TV. They also can't detect "wide-screen flag" signalling encoded within Mpeg4 streams, in either the .AVI or .MP4 container!

In fact, sadly the ESS Vibratto chip-set crashes when presented with an Mpeg4 encode containing "wide-screen signalling" based on DAR calculations.


Cheers