XviD video playback problem

[mictsekk]

I have an XviD video that I want to play on my standalone DVD player. I have a DivX compatible DVD player (Sony DVP-NS38). So I just burned the XviD video file on my DVD+RW and played it on my DVD player. The problem is the quality - it is sometimes blocky and not as good as on PC. Would it help if I would convert the XviD video to DivX?

EDIT: I know I could solve the problem by converting the avi to DVD but that would lose some quality, right? plus just burning the avi is much faster.

[minidv2dvd]

probably not. on the computer it's much smaller. as you increase the viewing size, the defects of low bitrate video and bad encoding become more apparent.

re-encoding would only cause the loss of more quality.

[mictsekk]

I'm pretty sure the quality should be better. the bitrate is 2032 by the way, maybe that could be a problem for the DVD player..

[jagabo]

The Xvid file may use optional MPEG 4 part 2 features that your player doesn't support. You can use something like AviRecomp to recompress with settings that won't cause problems. Any time you recompress with a lossy codec you will lose some quality. Use sufficient bitrate and the losses won't be too bad.

[mictsekk]

mkay, i'm just gonna convert it to DVD with FAVC then.. had pretty good quality with it so far..

[jman98]

You can't fix this problem by converting, but you'll learn after you try. In fact there is no fix for this problem unless you can re-encode the original video yourself from the source and do a better job.