Can't play Xvid on my Philips DVP5982

[rreeze]

Ok

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[filmboss80]

You don't have packed bitstreams, which throw off a lot of Philips players. It looks like you've done everything right, disabling the following: Adaptive Quantization, Quarter Pixel, and Global Motion Compensation The only thing I can suggest is to make sure to use a simple or advanced simple profile in xvid, and set your max B-VOPs no higher than 1.

[TBoneit]

Sounds like the file is damaged. Time to move on and forget that file.

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[filmboss80]

Hmm....25fps. PAL source? That may be giving you problems on an NTSC player.

[jman98]

The VBR MP3 is a problem, but that's not why it's not playing. That is why your re-encode went out of sync.

Philips players, even the ones sold in North America, can handle 25 fps Divx.
Either your file is damaged and your PC can put up with it, or it's a USB problem. Burn it to CD-RW or DVD+RW and see if the player plays it. If so, it's a USB issue.

[mwkurt]

Hello,

I have had problems playing divx files with 2 or more consecutive B-VOPS. I notice that yours is like this. Try encoding with AutoGK on the home theater setting. I now encode all of my divx/xvid files with AutoGK and don't have any problems playing the files.

Mark

[TBoneit]

many things play fine on the computer and not in a Philips.

I just picked up the Philips 5990 @ $59.99 which plays WMV and has USB2.

In my further testing last night many WMVs played and and others didn't. Now I need to examine to see why. Since they were AFAIK encoded the same. However the fact that some work & some do not means that over time somnething changed. It seems to be the older ones that do not play.

The USB2 does work and I can now play DVD ready MPG2 files without stuttering and the FF/FRev functions work much better from the USB port that the older Philips I have.

[Stiiv]

Your vid must comply with the DivX "Home Theater" profile (which is pretty flexible, considering) to play in a stand-alone unit...I don't have the info handy, but it's definitely worth looking up. Then again, people DO complain a lot about Philips DVD players & DivX. Good luck, pal.

[TBoneit]

I believe that the 5960 & up are among the lowest cost Ultra Divx certified players out there. The newer one do 1080P upscaling vs the 5960's 1080i upscaling. The newest one I picked up now has a better remote too. I believe the 642(?) was the one more people complained about. I had 2 Toshiba divx players. Nicer remotes, More functions from the remotes and they both went bad the same way. They both started having trouble wher ethey would play part of the 20 to 30 minutes in a disc and then start freezing up. They would also play the last part of the video. So you would pop in a commercial or burned DVD to watch a movie and be able to watch teh start and teh end and not the middle. It seemed to me to be the player as it would do it with store bought or discs burned in a Pioneer DVD recorder or Lite-On Burners. The Philips 5960 has lasted much longer.