I produced a DIVX AVI - burned Data DVD - won't play in DVD Player

[parkay2]

I was mucking around and decided to try my hand on producing a DIVX video w/ gordian knot using the DIVX 5.1 codec. In the past I captured Independence Day from a vhs tape to DVD compliant MPG2 video: 720x480 29.97 8.00 mbps. I decided to turn the DVD I made into a DIVX disk. The AVI plays fine on my computer - it renders fine in G-Spot. My guess at this point (since I have never had any problems playing other DIVX disks) is that the AVI that I produced is non-compliant. I have a divx of the first installment of Lord of the rings. It fits on two CD-R's. I tried making independence day the best quality I could. I made it to fit on one DVD-5 disk. My video is a bit over 4 gigs. Here's the info that G-spot says about my AVI. Thanks in advance!!!

AVI FILE SIZE = 4.00 GB (or 4,099 MB or 4,197,654 KB or 4,298,397,696 bytes)

Container Data:
DivX Style "packed bitstream" AVI
Multipart OpenDML AVI (3 parts)
(100218 frames in first part, 108484 frames follow)
Interleave: 1 vid frame (42 ms), preload=504
Audio frames: Aligned on interleaves

User Data:
[ISFT] VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
[JUNK] VirtualDubMod build 2540/release
[USER] DivX503b1328p

Audio:
0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
48000Hz 130 kb/s tot , Joint Stereo LAME3.90.

Video Codec:
DX50/divx DivX 5.2.1 (WaffleDay)

Video Data:
Length = 2:25:05
Frames = 208,702
kbps = 3820
Frame Quality = 1.048
Pics/s = 23.976
frames/s = 23.976

Video Resolution:
W x H = 528 x 288
SAR = 1.833 (11:6)
PAR = 1.000
DAR = 1.833 (11:6)

Heres another analysis of the video:

General #0
Complete name : C:\NO_NAME\VIDEO_TS\indy.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 4.00 GiB
PlayTime : 2h 25mn
Bit rate : 1956 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video #0
Codec : DivX 5
Codec/Family : MPEG-4
Codec settings/BVOP : Yes
Codec settings/QPel : No
Codec settings/GMC : 0
Codec settings/Matrix : Default
PlayTime : 2h 25mn
Bit rate : 1814 Kbps
Width : 528 pixels
Height : 288 pixels
Aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.497
Writing library : DivX503b1328p

Audio #0
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 2h 25mn
Bit rate : 130 Kbps
Bit rate mode : VBR
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Writing library : LAME3.90.

THANKS!!!

[mats.hogberg]

First - your player do play AVI, right?
Did you use the stand alone compatibility mode in AutoGK? Seems OK - No qpel, no GMC.
Besides this, only 2 things that I can think of, is that the AVI is too big. There is some 2 GB limit fom many players IIRC.
And really, 3820 kbps is insanely high - may also make the player choke. I've never seen a DivX above 2000, most are around 1000

/Mats

[parkay2]

Mats, thanks for the quick reply, A friend of mine gave me a DIVX copy of Lords of the rings. That is a long movie and it was encoded to fit on 2-CDr's. I took a movie and blasted it out to 4gb's. I used the regular GK. not the auto. I'll download autoGK and re-encode tonight and learn what I should have used for settings to make it compliant. Thanks!

P.S. "Insane" settings are great!!! As long as they work

[parkay2]

I downloaded AutoGK - And for sure 2gb is the max size. Of course, though my wife never uses my computer unless I hit the "encode" button on any software. Go figure! I have AutoGk set for the 2gib limit and I have it set to MTK standalone compatability mode. I'll give it a rip tonight. Thanks!