Hi, I would like to know everyone's opinion on which software you recommend to convert all my AVI files on my PC to DivX files so that I may burn them on to disc and play them on my stand-alone dvd player which plays DivX...I use Winavi for my dvd disc converting and find it both fast and easy!!! I would also like something as easy to use formaking my DivX collection....many thanks!!
First off: DivX are AVI's but I understand your problem.
I'm kinda in the same boat as you so I wanted to share what I've learned about stand alone DivX players so far. I have owned 3 in the last 24 hours, so I feel like I may be catching on now. Just about any AVI will play on my Philips DVP5140 but I cannot get anything tagged HDTV to play on it. So if your like me and you have a few of those in your collection (over 90% of my AVI files.. damn it!) Then you may have play back issues. I was hearing audio but wasn't getting a picture on the RCA I had last night and today the Philips so kindly let me know that it could not play that file type. So I dug a little deeper in my archives ("How to Grow Kind Bud.avi" which I knew was not recorded in Hi-Def and blammo.. works like a charm. So then I dug out a few others that were not in Hi-DEf, some of these were XviD, (have not tried a MKV yet but I'm curious) and they all worked too. So, I have determined that I now need a way of downgrading my HDTV AVI's to a lower resolution. I'm only afraid to actually try this because I get really pissed trying to work w/ AVI encoding. I can never get the audio sync working for me.. always against me. So I'm begging you.. if anyone knows a way to downgrade my HDTV.avi(s) without re-encoding or at least a way of re-encoding without audio issues.. please.. give a fella a hand.. thank you
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I just found this in another thread (guess thats the resolution to look out for)
Originally posted by Tardus:I bought the 5140/37 from Walmart a couple of weeks ago. Last week I walked back by it in Wal-Mart and the price is down to $49 BTW.
PROBLEM 1: has anyone seen anything about hacking the player (or something) to keep it from turning off after being paused about 10 minutes? That's really annoying.
PROBLEM 2: Sadly there are a couple of resolutions like 960x528 that the unit will play the audio on but put up a "resolution not supported" message. So many TV shows I "find" are at 960x528
GOOD: The Phillips 642 seemed to have a max bit rate of around 150kbps. With the 5140/37 I've played DivX files at 600kbps so far. Although usually anything that high is in the 960x528 resolution which isn't supported.
Another good point of interest.. (just throwing you as much info as I can find) tell me to shut up anytime. I found this post to be very helpful if your downloading avi's
Originally posted by ruFFritch:Yes Ryan, if they are DivX or 3vix encoded files, they will play on any stand alone DivX player. The newest XviDcodec will also play on any stand alone, as they have now fixed many of the "problems" with custom quant type and 3 or more consecutive B-vops and the presence of N-vops.
Re-encoding a file is very simple to do these days, and it is also extremely simple to diagnose problems with AVI files with the right tools.
Use and application called G-spot to determine which codec was used to encode the file.
The current version of Mpeg 4 modifier is essential to diagnose your AVI.
Virtualdubmod is my application of choice for easy conversion when necessary.
All of the above appz are completly free.
Of course make sure that you have the latest versions of the DivX and XviDcodec on your computer.
Tip: If you download video files (which I am not advocating, but hey, some people do this), look for files with Axxo in the filename... all of these files are compatible with any stand alone. ;-) Hope this answers your question! Happy shopping! :-)
Yes, just burn them onto a disc using Nero or whatever program you prefer as just raw data. Drag and drop more or less.. no need to create an iso, no need to for any fancy tricks.. just make a regular data dvd or cd.
Originally posted by Skitzy:Yes, just burn them onto a disc using Nero or whatever program you prefer as just raw data. Drag and drop more or less.. no need to create an iso, no need to for any fancy tricks.. just make a regular data dvd or cd.
Does that also mean you could use Nero Recode to create a Nero Digital(MPEG-4) file (Which is also DivX, correct) and drop it onto a DVD as a data file and a standalone DVD DivX player would play it?
They sell Nero Digital compatible players now too. All I know is I had an old Apex (30 dollars from Wal-Mart) and it played EVERYTHING. I got a DivX certified player that wont touch them....
The DivX media format is a hack/extension to AVI. Nero Digital files on the other hand are mp4 files. Nero added chapters and VOBSub's (they are also adding AC3) but MPEG-4 specs allow for this, so they are still spec compliant.
HDTV just refers to the source. Most players (all Home Theatre certified ones) handle 720x576 max, so HR and 720p releases are out. But any HDTVRips that are encoded to a lower resolution should be fine.
There is no way to resize without re-encoding. My advice would be to re-encode to 720x576/544. Think all the 720p releases are x264 now anyway. No reason why there should be audio issues. Just re-use the original AC3.
Originally posted by JXP2307:No. Maybe. Youd have to try.
They sell Nero Digital compatible players now too. All I know is I had an old Apex (30 dollars from Wal-Mart) and it played EVERYTHING. I got a DivX certified player that wont touch them....
Just try it and see!
I am curious as to whether it works.
my player would not play the disc at all(With MP4 and Avis on it), although it did recognize that it was a video media disc(menu popped up), but wouldn't go any further. I am wondering if the mixture of MP4s and Avis on the disc caused its confusion. The MPEG-4 technology perplexes me is that it seems like there are multiple versions of it out these (Dixv, Vidx, AVi(Aren't there variations of AVis too), Mp4). Once again we are back to incompatibility issues with multiple formats. I hope over the next few years, video formats get more standardized as I am sick of having tons of converters etc loaded on my computer.
