requirements for consistent Divx playback on philips dvd player

[tikigod19]

hi,
i download a lot of avi's and rarely on a dvd of say 8 avi's will over 5 play with no problems. i have recently discovered that pushing the setup button twice on my dvd player will remove any pixelating in some cases however in the case of this file it will just not get rid of it....
i have used nerovision express and neo dvd to create a video_ts folder and the file distorts and pixelates just as much as when its a bare avi on a disc.
here is the gspot info for the file, any help is much appreciated

www.rideoutproductions.co.uk/gspot.JPG

[celtic_druid]

Pixelating problems are genearlly caused by CQM's which DivX does not support, so it should never happen with a DivX file. The file in the screenshot is XviD though as are probably all the other files.

For consistent DivX playback, stick with the Home Theatre profile and you should be fine since the player is certified to handle it. Same should go for XviD, however the player isn't XviD certified.

That GSpot shot lacks some serious details. You might want to try updating. MPEG4Modifier is also usefull.

[Krispy Kritter]

For more info try here: http://www.jarnot.com/twiki/bin/view/Public/DVP642LisaBsAVIGuide

and here: http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/165637

[FulciLives]

I had the Philips DVP642 for a while and I found that any XviD with N-VOP frames would throw off the A/V sync.

I was using autoGK to make XviD files using the ESS stand alone option. It works great BUT I found that if the compressability test is at or above 100% then it turns off B-Frames (it does tell you this in the log) and that will cause N-VOP frames. The solution is to lower the file size so that the compressability test is under 100%.

I usually do 2 CD size (or custom size 1390MB) since I like to have a single long file (I burn the AVI files to a DVD-R) and 1 CD size is too small ... too much compression is needed.

I found that some movies (very few) do not need 2 CD size and thus B-frames get turned off. In that case I try again with autoGK but lower the size until I find a size that is a bit under 100% as I said before.

Anyways I don't think you can go wrong using XviD on the DVP642 as long as you use autoGK and use the ESS stand alone option and of course watch the N-VOP frames (which again only happens when B-frames get turned off).

I found in some of my DVD back-ups (where I used the same size settings but did one in DivX and one in XviD) that the XviD always looked better.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman