forty two divs plays strange on pc

[yoyogi]

Hi,
Great software, but I have one little problem.
When I make a divx with forty-two everything works great. I can watch it in mplayer and am very happy.
However, when I copy it over to my pc laptop so I can watch it wherever i get a funny jagged distortion on the right side. It is only about 20 pixels across, but ruins the experience. Apart from that it looks great and is in sync. I tried the strokes dvd. Japanese ntsc with 4 songs.

I tried it multiple times with different settings.

How can I fix this?

thanks
yoyogi

edit> btw, I am using the latest divx software and tried it in the divx player and windows media player.

[KaiCherry]

Hi,
Great software, but I have one little problem.
When I make a divx with forty-two everything works great. I can watch it in mplayer and am very happy.
However, when I copy it over to my pc laptop so I can watch it wherever i get a funny jagged distortion on the right side. It is only about 20 pixels across, but ruins the experience. Apart from that it looks great and is in sync. I tried the strokes dvd. Japanese ntsc with 4 songs.

I tried it multiple times with different settings.

How can I fix this?

thanks
yoyogi

edit> btw, I am using the latest divx software and tried it in the divx player and windows media player.

I don't know...hrm. the only thing near a pc I have is an Xbox...and that uses software that has (a VERY NICE implementation of) mplayer as its core.

I think I still have a few buddies with pc's left...I'll see if I can get some movies played on their Win32 machine and have a look

::grumbles about his pals not having firewire::

-K

[spiff41398]

I concur with yoyogi. DivX movies encoded with any version of 42 has the distortion on the right side. It is watchable with DivX Player Alpha but not with Windows Media Player. DivX movies encoded by ffmpegX and Mencoder doesn't have the artifacts. FYI.

[yoyogi]

Hi Spiff,
Interesting you got it to work with DivX Player Alpha but not Windows Media Player. I got same results in both.
I have tested with beta 42 AND v1.0 42.

Also KaiCherry, thanks for looking out for this. I hope you can track down a PC!

Also, I was doing some more testing, if I encoded a divx on the best setting i didnt get the jagged distortion!

I tried to take a screenshot but couldnt.... how strange.

Thanks

yoyogi

[KaiCherry]

DivX movies encoded by ffmpegX and Mencoder doesn't have the artifacts. FYI.

What codec are you using with your ffmpegX/mencoder combo?

We can try it, unless its XviD. Also, forty-two can't (and won't) use the latest mencoder, NOR DO WE RECCOMEND ANYONE POPPING IT IN.

It causes syncc problems

-K

[AntnyMD]

I burned one of my 42 encodes to a CD this morning and brought it to work with me. This encode used the nearDVD option. I am playing it back now using DivX Player 2.0 Alpha for Windows and it plays fine, no jagged distortion on the right (or anywhere). Windows Media Player 7 plays the file in slow motion, and displays a DivX logo (!!) in the lower right corner -- what the hell is that? Windows Media Player 6.4 played the file without choking like WMP7, but still showed that blasted logo.

[spiff41398]

DivX movies encoded by ffmpegX and Mencoder doesn't have the artifacts. FYI.

What codec are you using with your ffmpegX/mencoder combo?

Hi Kai,

I used the Quick Preset: DivX (NTSC) which I think uses mencoder.

Windows Media Player 6.4 played the file without choking like WMP7, but still showed that blasted logo.

I think you can turn that 'feature' off in the DivX configuration screen so it doesn't show the DivX logo.

[galactica]

Are you saying xbox will play a divx movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY COW! did i miss something here?!?

Please explain more!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dubbayoo]

I too noticed 42 plays very poorly on any windows player capable of handling divx -- with the exception of vlc (www.videolan.org). vlc plays the encodes perfectly on both my mac and windows machines. As I normally use winamp3 to play video files on the windows box it can get slightly annoying, however it's not exactly a lengthy process to drag and drop the file onto vlc to play it back. give it a whirl.

[KaiCherry]

Are you saying xbox will play a divx movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY COW! did i miss something here?!?

Please explain more!!!!!!!!!!!!!

its a different world than where you come from

start here: http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de

-K[/url]