Philips DVP5960 and Divx looks choppy?

[David9799]

Divx movie is 2000kbps video is 720x480 29fps audio 128kb using lame.

Any movment in the video breaks up and looks fuzzy using divx 6. and Philips DVP5960. Plying from a DVD.


Even tried 3000 kbps and video still gets choopy with movment.
Any suggestions?

[David9799]

I'm using firmware 37.06.42.29 and a DVD i burned plays fine. My divx files have the extension .avi i don't know if that matters or not.

[jagabo]

It sounds like your video is interlaced which is a problem for most Divx players, even under Windows. And the bitrate (2000+) is probably in the range where it will start causing problems if it is VBR (so it has a higher bitrate during motion scenes).

You should stick with sqare pixel encodings (640x480 for a 4:3 source) to keep the aspect ratio correct. Avoid using QPEL and GMC when you encode.

[David9799]

It sounds like your video is interlaced which is a problem for most Divx players, even under Windows. And the bitrate (2000+) is probably in the range where it will start causing problems if it is VBR (so it has a higher bitrate during motion scenes).

So how do i fix the problem? The divx file played fine on my PC.

[jagabo]

If your video is playing fine on the PC it's likely not interlaced or has been deinterlaced.

What is your source? Is it a noisy VHS cap? Noisy analog broadcast? Clean DVD Rip?

Check out some of the other firmware rips. There were some which played jerky from USB drives.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=314821

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=301465

[TBoneit]

Have you tried lowering the bitrate? I've viewed plenty of Divx and Xvid on the same machine w/original firmware from DVD and from a USB drive. Never seen what you describe despite driving a 32" HDTV via component cables. Only choppy I see is the FF and FRev isn't as smooth from the USB drive. Most likely due to the USB1.1 bandwidth.

[David9799]

No i haven't tried a lower bitrate yet. The video is from a DVD rip so it's not that. If it was the bitrate wouldn't the clip i tried at 3000 be even worse than the same one at 2000?

I have the divx files on a DVD.

Any other suggestions would be appreachated.

[republicOfunk]

try to defrag your harddrive

[David9799]

try to defrag your harddrive

I don't think that will do any good with the DVD player!

[Joshatdot]

It has to do with if the video codec was set to Packed Bitstream or not. Packed = choppy, not packed = smooth. Some time ago I found a lil program that lets you check videos, and resave them w/o packed bitstream.

I am not at home to find what it's called.

edit: some Google'ing and I found it: MPEG4 Modifier.

[[Denniz]]

David9799, should play fine.

I have DVP5960, best player for XviD / DivX. Use Gspot, check file. Should have no GMC and no QPEL. Packed Bitstream works fine. There is probably something wrong with the video it self, encoding part. I have player over 2000 .avi files by now and all have worked fine without any problems. Movies and TV all from the Internet. The only thing that don't work is if bitrate of file is higher than 1500kbps and you play the file from USB. If it's on a dvd it's fine. It's the USB1 hardware limitation.

I have not checked my firmware version but I don't think that matters. Oh and something that makes video slow and jerky is is scenes with water or like static on a old analog TV, when that is in the .avi file you playback it slows down but only during a few seconds.