Liteon Divx LVD-2001.....A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS

[BONEHEAD_ANDY]

I bought the Liteon Divx LVD-2001 about 9 months ago and its been brilliant, however I do have a couple of questions that I am unable to resolve.

1. Freezing:- Some divx movies freeze. This is typically at a time in the movie when there is a lot of fast action such as fights or camera spanning. Is this a hardware problem or can it be resolved using the latest or future FIRMWARE? Can this problem be solved by limiting my visual/audio bitrate of the divx movie using virtual dub or similar, if so, what are the limits? Has anybody made this process user friendly, i.e. some sort of idiot-proof “divx to Lite-on LVD-2001 friendly divx” converter?

2. Burning of divx using Nero, has anybody noticed that freezing is more common towards the end of a CD? Could this just be from chance or from (1)? Should I burn my CDs slower to reduce any chance of error?

3. Does anybody notice that when watching divx and on commercial DVDs that when a flash of light e.g. lightning occurs, the box shows a blue screen very briefly? Why is this?

Andy

[Ravlen]

The Liteon (and most other Divx players) do not support Divx 3.11 very well. If you have 3.11 movies, I suggest encoding them as Xvid or Divx 5.x, the player has no trouble with those formats.

Since you are using Virtual dub, just select fast recompress for video, select direct stream for audio... Select Compression (under video), choose the codec you want. I use XVid... in my case, I choose XVid, hit configure, then choose first pass. Then I save to Avi, and choose add operation to job queue. I go back to compression, hit configure again, choose 2nd pass Int, choose the file size, and again save to job queue.

Open up the job queue, and start it. Presto, XVid video that the player will have no trouble with.

No, I have never seen a blue box pop up.

Ravlen

[ps2wiz]

Have you tryed using the new beta firmwire?

[SARK]

3. Does anybody notice that when watching divx and on commercial DVDs that when a flash of light e.g. lightning occurs, the box shows a blue screen very briefly? Why is this?

Andy

At last someone with the same problem.
How is the LiteOn connected to your TV (what connector is used) and what brand is the TV?

ps.
The beta firmware doesn't solve this problem!

[BONEHEAD_ANDY]

I use a SCART connection and its an ALBA made TV. The blue is not a box it looks the same (for a split second) as when the TV is set to SCART but with no SCART signal. Its a DVD and DIVX issue.

[BONEHEAD_ANDY]

XVID doesnt appear to solve ALL the problems, i do have one that skips compressed as XVID. Spec. below.

AUDIO 192kbps, VIDEO 23fps, 173kbps, 24bit XVID compression

Is there a max spec. that the player can deal with?

[SARK]

A SCART connector (PAL region?), as I wrote before I also had the same problem with very bright scenes (lightning, laser shooting etc.). After I routed the SCART through my VCR the problem was reduced, not gone. I think it has something to do with the signal being to strong for our TV's, I still want to test the LiteOn connected to another (newer) TV, have you tried the LiteOn on another box?

[Salitos]

Burn the CD slower then x16. For *3 problem, I change the Tv and solve it. But I change it with older one.

[SARK]

Burn the CD slower then x16. For *3 problem, I change the Tv and solve it. But I change it with older one.

So you've had the same problem, are you also in the PAL region and use the SCART connector? (I guess it's a typical PAL problem, don't see any NTSC people complaining)
edit
Burning the CD at a slow speed, OK gonna try that one, but what about those commercial DVD's? They also show the "flash" problem.
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OK, I've misread the post ... burning at slow speed is to avoid the freezing problem. I should have guessed that one 'cause NERO is involved.