720p divx6 to avi

[lil]

I downloaded some of the HD BBC specials "Planet Earth" they are encoded in DivX6 at 720p.avi my pc plays them great but I want to view them on my home dvd player a philips dvp642 and it does not go past divx5, I have tried a few conversion in River Past converter but when I tried Xvid it would not see the files in the menu, tried doing interlaced avi with the Intel codec it came out unsupported codec by the player.....I am now trying it to interlaced avi using the window media 9 codec and hope this works....is there a better software tool to use or settings?

[gll99]

The dvp-642 can play files encoded with the divx6 codec but only if you use the Home Theatre simple profile and not the High Definition profile. I think the max resolution it accepts is 720 x 480. If these files have a higher resolution then you will have to change it and also recompress using the simple profile with a bitrate under 4000.

[jman98]

gll99 is entirely correct. The DVP-642 has no problems with Divx 6, it's the resolution is has a problem with. Use Dr. Divx and re-encode it with the Home Theatre profile. If you have AC3 sound and want to keep it, you better keep the bit rate at 2000 or less. I know that at 3000 this player will absolutely refuse to correctly play your Divx if it has AC3 audio. If you convert the AC3 audio to MP3 you might be able to get away with a bit rate as high as 3000. Using a bit rate above 3000 with any type of audio is just asking for playback problems with this player.

I just realized that you may not have the commerical version of the Divx codec. If not, my suggest to use Dr. Divx is worthless. In that case, use something like AutoGK to re-encode with the Xvid codec. Keep the bit rate to 2000, do NOT use QPel (Quarter Pixel), MMC or Packed Bit Rate when encoding with the Xvid codec or the DVP-642 will refuse to play your encodes.

[lil]

Ok I have Dr. DivX Pro but I really like the River Past Video Cleaner, so with that said the windows 9 codec shows an output of 720x480 for the video and a bite rate of just over 1500 for the audio so looks like it is well in the limits of what you have suggested.....it is done converting so I am gonna burn it to disc and give it a shot....will let ya know how it goes....if it does not play next is install Dr. DivX Pro and go from there.....thx a million for you guys fast replies

[lil]

The player has a message, codec not supported....so now time to try Dr. Divx.

[gll99]

jman98 wrote

If you have AC3 sound and want to keep it, you better keep the bit rate at 2000 or less. I know that at 3000 this player will absolutely refuse to correctly play your Divx if it has AC3 audio. If you convert the AC3 audio to MP3 you might be able to get away with a bit rate as high as 3000. Using a bit rate above 3000 with any type of audio is just asking for playback problems with this player.

I haven't used ac3 as much lately so can't comment accurately without going back and comparing all the variables. For a long time now I convert or capture the audio to mp3 44000hz 128 kbps cbr stereo. With those settings for audio I regularly use 3000 and have gone up to 3800 bitrate on some captures. Maybe using those audio settings helps because I too remember the audio clipping when I used higher audio bitrate combined with high video bitrate, I just don't recall the circumstances but the caution makes sense.

If you have a higher fidelity audio and don't want to lose it then I agree that you shouldn't go that high on the video bitrate. When you have the time to spare and/or the cpu power for live capture you can choose a higher video compression which allows you to use less bitrate and still have a higher quality encode. I do live captures and my cpu peaks unless I use the divx6 high performance mode or at best the balanced (default) mode and pull back on the audio codec also. With my setup I've tried going between 2000 and 3000 and I find I can see the difference as I scale up by varying amounts so I stay between 2600 and 3000 all the time now based on the length of the capture to the desired max filesize under 2 gig unless it's a DVD conversion.

btw) I always split the captures/conversions so they don't individually exceed 2 gig or the dvd-642 won't recognise any time past that filesize although it will not warn you. Let's say you load a show that is 2 hours long but is 3gig, the player will play the video but when it reaches the 2gig barrier it just doesn't recognise the rest of the file so it will only play 2/3 of your show.

[lil]

Dr DivX did it perfect with the settings you recommended, with sound to MP3. I was amassed that it took at 2GB+ file and turned it into a very high deff looking 500-600MB file and with great sound, until I upgrade to a HD DVD player this will have to do but it really did it well.
Thank for your help and explinations on what and why it really made this much easyer to figure out and get it right only after a few tries.

Thanks.....michelle