video encoded with divx can't seek with HW player?

[samykoka]

hi all

first post , plz help

i have some movies , want to embed arabic subs into it in order to play it with my philips dvdr5500 ... ok , i used canopus pro coder to do the encoding with subs , selecting divx encoder (ver 6.8) and the result was very cool , all the avi's runs cool on my pc and player except for one thing ....

i can't fast forward or rewind using my philips dvdr5500 . it gave me " index information not available" error !! googling my error it seems to be a key frame error so i re encode using virtuale dup and divx 6.8 again .... got the same error ???

plz , what should i do to get my avi's able to navigate using my hardware player???

thanks ..

[poisondeathray]

Maybe you could run divfix on your output files

Did you use too high of a bitrate? That can give some standalone players problems

What settings for DivX? Did you use the "home theatre" profile?

Have you ever been able to get a DivX file to navigate on that player? (not ones encoded by your process)

[samykoka]

thank for your fast reply ... yes , i do used home theatre profile .

also the movies befor embeding subs runs ok and vavigate well in my player - this movies downloaded from the net - once i re encode it i cant seek it anymore . and i used varios bitrates and get the same error every time .

what is the difference between the movies i download and the same ones after re encoding ??? don't get it yet

[poisondeathray]

It must be something you do (some setting) that causes your player to act like this, because it navigates well before hardcoding the subs

It must be a different setting used

Did you try divfix?

[samykoka]

OK , tried divfix - no errors and the resulting avi also couldn't be navigated??? how could i do the sub hardcoding with the same setting of the original movie ? i mean bitrate , keyframe count etc...

onething i noticed , canopus gives me ffdshow in source compression type
? why not xvid ?

[poisondeathray]

If you use mediainfo (view=>text), it might show some more information on the encoding settings used for the file that does navigate. Use it on the file that navigates, and compare with the file that doesn't

It will show something like this. It might be some setting like packed bitstream, or fps, etc...

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
Format/Family : RIFF
File size : 190 MiB
PlayTime : 22mn 21s
Bit rate : 1190 Kbps
StreamSize : 1.56 MiB
Writing library : VirtualDub build 29393/release

Video #0
Codec : DivX 5
Codec/Family : MPEG-4V
Codec settings, Packet bitst : Yes
Codec settings, BVOP : Yes
Codec settings, QPel : No
Codec settings, GMC : 0
Codec settings, Matrix : Default
PlayTime : 22mn 21s
Bit rate : 1052 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display Aspect ratio : 4/3
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 8 bits
Chroma : 4:2:0
Interlacement : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.137
StreamSize : 168 MiB
Writing library : DivX503b2510p

Audio #0
Codec : MPEG-1 Audio layer 3
Codec profile : Joint stereo
PlayTime : 22mn 21s
Bit rate mode : CBR
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
StreamSize : 20.5 MiB