Divx-3,4,5, X-vid to Mpeg-4 Simple profiling conversion,HOW?

[swbluto]

Hello, I had just boughten a new dvd player hoping that it would solve the issues dealing with playing dvd's. Well, the dvd player I got said it would play VCD(MPEG1), SVCD(MPEG2), DVD(MPEG2), and MPEG-4. However it has further stipulations on MPEG-4. It has to be MPEG-4, simple profiling, and the file extension name must be ".asf" and it has to be burned on a CD, not a DVD(I don't understand why player's can't play DVD-R's with VCD and SVCD Files on them). So I try all the MPEG-4 family codec types, with the compatible mp3 audio codec, from DIVXv3-DIVXv5 to XVID whilst burning them on a CD-R and renaming the end of it to .asf.

The DVD player can read the files and display them on the screen, but it will not play with them, and my guess is that it won't play the codec. So I think it may have something to do with some special codec group under the MPEG-4 umbrella. It specifies "Simple Profiling" and the ".ASF" format, however after cruising the many forum posts under here(while under my 2 day non-posting period) and looking at the conversion charts and I find nothing that deals with to "ASF". However, I would like to take advantage of it so I won't have to waste so much data space on my DVD's encoding them to MPEG-2s, and so I can keep everything really simple and efficient. However my player doesn't seem to play the more familiar MPEG-4 codecs. Does any one know anything about this branch of MPEG-4, and if there's any tools out there for it. Or am I looking at this whole thing incredibly wrong? Thanks

[celtic_druid]

DivX 4 I think was SP only anyway and some DivX 5.x and XviD encodes would be SP only already.

You need to actually mux the files to asf though, not just rename them. Also the video fourCC could be an issue. Not sure what it expects though.

DivX 3 files you can convert (not re-encode) to SP MPEG-4 via a modified version of ffmpeg.