Burning Divx avi movie to cd/dvd for playing divx certified player

[kapil.garg]

I have a 698 MB avi mpeg4 movie file.

ffmpegX 0.0.9w shows the following information for this

AVI,
Video: mpeg4, yuv420p, 464x240
Audio: mp3, 48000 Hz, stereo, 112 Kb/s

Is it divx ? (which I doubt) but it is playable in divx player.

I want to write it to cd / dvd to play it on my divx certified dvd player (Sony).
I tried doing so by writing the file to CD through Toast 6.0 , Data tab, DVD-ROM(UDF) format, but it gave data error on my player and did not run.

Please suggest.
Thanks

[Case]

DivX and similar mpeg-4 movies can be encoded with certain options that standalone players are not always compatible with (GMC, qpel). Some of those option can even be hard to detect in a movie, by lack of Mac OS X tools that provide such information.

A DivX certified player should be able to play compatible DivX AVIs from CDs burned in ISO 9660 format. That is, UDF wouldn't be my first try...

[kelman4]

I would recommend letting Toast do this for you. In the video tab in Toast select DivX disc on the left and drop your video in. If the video isn't compatible, I think it'll re-encode it to a compatible format.

Usually when you drop your video into ffmpegx the first thing that is shown on the right side is AVI DivX. Just hit encode for 2 secs and stop. Then check your encode log, the blue "i" icon and that should give you more detailed info about the video. That's how i check bitrates and such.

[kapil.garg]

Hi,
thanks for the inputs.

This is the information I get in ffmpegx while converting,

AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 464x240 12bpp 29.970 fps 543.2 kbps (66.3 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x44495658 size:464x240 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16be, 128.0 kbit/8.33% (ratio: 16000->192000)
Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
================================================== ========================
Opening video filter: [expand osd=1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1, osd: 1, aspect: 0.000000, round: 1
Opening video filter: [scale w=464 h=240]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffodivx] vfm: ffmpeg (FFmpeg MPEG-4)


Am not able to make any thing out of it.
And I have toast 6.0, it does not have Divx DVD option.

Any ideas,

also, Can i get this avi converted to MPEG2 (so that i may be able to write DVD out of it)

thanks

[jpschuck]

Am not able to make any thing out of it.

Didi you try to burn it on a cd in ISO9600 mode or Mac/PC mode with Toast, as suggested by Case ? This will certainly do the trick, unless your file uses some advanced encoding options that is not supported by your player.

And I have toast 6.0, it does not have Divx DVD option.
Any ideas,also, Can i get this avi converted to MPEG2 (so that i may be able to write DVD out of it)
thanks

For that you just have to install the DivX plug-in for Quicktime and burn your video with Toast in regular DVD-Video mode. Toast 6 is able to create a DVD/MPEG2 from any Quicktime video file.

[kelman4]

AVI file format detected.
VIDEO: [XVID] 464x240 12bpp 29.970 fps 543.2 kbps (66.3 kbyte/s)
[V] filefmt:3 fourcc:0x44495658 size:464x240 fps:29.97 ftime:=0.0334

I'm going to assume that you've got an XviD avi. You probably should convert that to a DivX avi and then burn using the methods others have suggested.

[macsyrinx]

If it's an XviD format, which it looks like it is, just leave it in that format, burn using the built-in Apple burn process. This process still works fine for me. I also use Toast7, Video Tab / DivX format with DivX encoding turned off. XviD's have always seemed to play better in my DivX certified player than DivX formats, go figure.