Hi all. I've searched and I can't find my exact problems on the net or this forum. I've read that I am supposed to burn divx and xvid avi's as data on a cd (can you do this with a dvd as well?) Well when I burn an xvid avi and play it in my Philips DVP642 it shows a black screen and the display skips forward by like 30 or 40 seconds at a time. When I try to play a divx avi it shows a black screen and the display stays at 00:00. Please help. Thanks...
Well hopefully I don't need to read up on your Philips unit ;^) It plays DivX right? What does it say, XviD as well, or MPEG4, or just DivX? I'll go and read about it after, but for now you need to be burning your AVIs as a file into the root of your optical disk, CD or DVD doesn't matter, just *.avi in the root, disc finalized, no further sessions. It needs to be a 'compliant' AVI (more on this later) and its audio should be interleaved every 1 video frame, for optimal playback performance. People used to interleave every 10 or 20 (or 30!) frames, to make the file as small as possible, for playback from a harddisk or sending over the internet or whatever, but! this is NOT the hot interleave setup for playback from CD. I will help you interleave if you need. It's important, hey it's an AVI right? (Audio Video Interleave) so it's fundamental. Anyway, the AVI must comply to an appropriate 'profile' for playback on your Philips device - the DivX guys promised Philips it would. They gave Philips the profile. It promises the AVI doesn't use any proprietary weirdness, nothing unusual, just mainstream and the bitrate is within profile too - not too high, not too low, just sweet. You must playback AVIs created within this profile; the key is whoever is making the AVIs needs to ensure they are compliant! Hope this helps? Let us know; if it won't playback a properly encoded, interleaved and burned AVI then maybe it's no damn good? In the meanwhile, you need to learn all you can about the Philips, what it supports, what it doesn't, its technical features, its specifications. Are you burning good quality blanks, slowly? (I use only Verbatim :^) You need a really good burn because these files are heavily compressed, and it actually takes a lot of horsepower or Philips Muscle to play them back! More than a DVD, more challenging to playback in realtime. Anyway if this doesn't help, get back to us. Regards
thanks for the reply. yes i'm certain it plays divx and xvid. i've used a program called gui4ffmpeg and also imtoo dvd ripper platinum to rip fight club from the official retail dvd that i own into divx and xvid onto a data cd and dvd on verbatim media as slow as i possibly can and still have these same 2 problems. is burning to the root of the disc just burning without creating folders? would anyone be able to explain the procedure for making sure all settings are right to convert to divx/xvid with either of those programs? or with any other program for that matter. where do i look for a step-by-step procedure for converting a dvd into divx or xvid that my philips dvp642 can read? thanks...
Right on - I don't know what that is but it sounds compliant. We all can encode backups to XviD AVI, but I am unaware of a guide to compatibility for playback on these newer standalone devices. (Moving target, perhaps? IOW they're too new and still evolving...?) I have dozens (hundreds!) of AVIs, DivX 3,4,5,6, XviD, some CBR MP3, some VBR MP3, some AC3 - I dunno which, or any, or all would playback on your Philips. martindcx, when you get this figured out YOU can write the guide okay? I'll be interested to learn :^) Personally I think Celtic_d should produce a guide; he is more technically knowledgeable about these things than I am (which, trust me, is rare) and seems to know about these standalones without owning one...? Perhaps an existing guide could be revised or updated, ie. 'DVD to high-compatibility XviD using GordianKnot' or somesuch ;^) Anyway, good luck. Don't make me buy one of these standalones to figure this out, LoL L8R
Alrighty I have good news. After lots of searching around I found the lovely avi.NET program. Its primary purpose is to create standalone compliant DivX and Xvid files from DVD VOB files or (S)VCD files. It worked perfectly the first time and it's free! Here is a link... http://www.clonead.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/downloads.htm BTW it requires the .net framework 2, avisynth, and the latest XviD and/or DivX codecs. It seemed like a very self-explanatory program to use... Guide for converting DVD to standalone DivX/XviD capable DVD player compliant AVI files: 1. Rip DVD VOB files to PC with something like DVD Decrypter 2. Open avi.NET, click "Load File", and find your VOB(s) 3. Click "Destination" and choose where to save your file and what to name it. 4. Wait for the indexing to finish and pause (the left icon in the top right) the video playback once it begins 5. Click the "Video/Audio/Subs" tab and select desired file size, audio type, and codec 6. Click the "Options" tab to mess with the resolution 7. Click the "File Input-Output" tab, click "Add Job", and click "Start" Thanks for the replies everyone. Hope this can help some others out as well. EDIT: I just realized that there is a pretty recent post by ugc about how much they like avi.NET. I just think it should be stressed somewhere that people should look to this program for playing back DivX and XviD on their DVD players.
I have an MTK based standalone. AutoGK has a specific profile for these using a modified profiles that I added since MTK based players can handle more than what is specified in the DXN HT profiles. Why limit your self if you don't need to? With ESS based players though, you are basically stuck with DXN HT, although I believe that they can handle 1 warp point GMC, useless as it is.
I have a DVP642 and burn both CD and DVD as data for XVID and DIVX. files downloaded straight from the net..Just make a VIDEO_TS folder and put your file in and burn..DVP642 say's reading index and the movies starts. Hope that helps you out.
I have a DVP642 that I use for just this purpose. AutoGK with ESS support has worked very well for me. Burn AVI files to disc (both CD and DVD) as data (no video_ts folder needed for divx/xvid playback). For CDs keep bitrate below about 1200kbs or you will get read problems. You can go higher with DVDs. With AutoGK bitrate is a trial and error thing unless you use a seperate bitrate calc program. I use "DVD D-kript-R" ;-) to rip to ifo format. Works great.
