Philips DVP-642 plays some AVI's with Red-Blue Inversion

[LisaB]

I have a whole series of AVI's, DivX codec, which play back with wrong colors on this player. It appears that Red and Blue are swapped. I wonder if anyone else has had this problem, or if there is some way I can re-invert the AVI's without doing a full re-encode. These same AVI's, of course, play back fine on the PC.

[Heywould3]

I have a whole series of AVI's, DivX codec, which play back with wrong colors on this player. It appears that Red and Blue are swapped. I wonder if anyone else has had this problem, or if there is some way I can re-invert the AVI's without doing a full re-encode. These same AVI's, of course, play back fine on the PC.

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I have this problem too.. anyone else?

fourCC info
FourCC description code divx
FourCC used codec DX50
info from nics fourcc changer

info from GSpot is
codec
4cc= DX50/DIVX
Name= Divx 5.0

So far all other files play fine.

i have latest firmware installed.
all files play fine on computer
BTW i found that if i press the zoom it will 2x zoom and colors are good. if i return to normal they are blue/red inverted again

[Aixelsyd]

I have the same problem. Brand new player and updated it to the latest firmware (17) . Happened in both DVDs and divx files for me.

I submitted a question to support. If they answer I'll pass it along.

Thanks

[tsog]

This sounds like a problem that I had and I read somewhere that switching between video and s-video (on the TV) may correct the problem. It did for me.

[Heywould3]

ive read that fix b4 somewhere.. in this case it doesnt work.. ive searched for weeks and since i have 180+ AVI files that are doing this i just did the only sure thing that worked.. load in dr divx do a batch job and walk away.. they all work now..

[LisaB]

Heywould, I'm awfully surprised you have so many files with this problem. I download virtually 100's of avi's, and there were only six, all part of the same "series" that had this problem.

As far as I can tell, the problem is very rare.

Funny thing, when I re-encoded to xvid in VDub using fast recompress mode, they still had the problem!

I'm sure that using full processing mode, or possibly normal recompress would have worked...but after the failed xvid re-encode, I decided to use DVD2SVCD to make SVCD's out of them, and then authored to a DVD...as expected, this worked great.

[DVDman]

I'm having the same problem on most of my Seinfeld episodes. Has anyone tried the component video output. I don't have a way to check that.

[waru]

I want to buy a divx/xvid/ogm with subtitles capable player that i will also use for original region1 & region2 dvd's. I'm between Philips 630, Yamada DVX-6000 (if i can find it here), kiss DP-450. The thing is that i don't know if philips,yamada support ogm. Can anyone tell me? I would also like some recomedations about which player is better for my needs

[Heywould3]

I'm having the same problem on most of my Seinfeld episodes. Has anyone tried the component video output. I don't have a way to check that.

that will fix it if you cross the red and blue cables but then all the other stuff is messed up.. as i said. i had to re-encode all my shows to.. FYI mine are also the seinfled shows. just use dr-divx and set it to do a batch job and walk away. they will all be find after that