My phillips dvp3980 Stops playing movies 3/4 of the way through.

[UmmAddan]

It just STOPS and the next movie starts... (AVI files). the Index thing pops up on the top left hand corner and numbers up to a 100, and then the next movie will start.
some movies it plays absolutely fine all the way through.
at first i thought its because the dvd player only plays full movies that are about 700mb's and anything bigger it wont. but recently i split a movie in 2 so its 700/701mb's and the first one it played fine and the second it stopped 10 minutes before ending.
what could be the problem?
please help.
thanks.

[UmmAddan]

PS:
I'm burning with Nero & on Verbatim DVD-R's (16x).

[lowellriggsiam]

I've seen this with two different problems, once it the fault of a bad flash drive and the second was an indexing problem. You might try running divfix on the file and see if that resolves it.

[UmmAddan]

thanks i'll ty that and see what happens.

[UmmAddan]

I've seen this with two different problems, once it the fault of a bad flash drive and the second was an indexing problem. You might try running divfix on the file and see if that resolves it.

ok so i CHECKED ERRORS and FIXED them. i'll download onto dvd to see if they work now. But just one question... what does it mean by STRIP INDEX? i have read that "Strip Index removes the index part from AVI files, so that they become unsearchable by many AVI players"
what does this mean? that it wont play in DVD players any more? what is index?

i havent stripped the avi file... did i need to do this as well?

[jman98]

ok so i CHECKED ERRORS and FIXED them. i'll download onto dvd to see if they work now. But just one question... what does it mean by STRIP INDEX? i have read that "Strip Index removes the index part from AVI files, so that they become unsearchable by many AVI players"
what does this mean? that it wont play in DVD players any more? what is index?

i havent stripped the avi file... did i need to do this as well?

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

Why is that even an option? I can't imagine what stripping the index is supposed to accomplish other than making the file marginally smaller. Yes, if you do this the file may not play on some DVD players. Or it will play but you cannot go backwards, forwards or jump to specific times in the file.

[UmmAddan]

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

Okkkkk.... Okkk......
But i tried checking the errors and then fixing them but this doesn't seem to work.

I'm getting really fed up now.

The older DivFix version has the strip and then rebuild Index option. For some reason this new one doesn't. would strip and then rebuild make a difference?

[jman98]

Don't strip the index. It's OK to otherwise attempt to fix errors, but there are no guarantees this will work. Try re-encoding the files that give you problems and see if that fixes the problems.

See the sticky here for a list of encoding options that may cause playback problems.
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/290800-My-DivX-DVD-Player-can-t-play-my-avi-DivX-xvid-video

[davexnet]

Bitrate too high? Check working/non-working files in MediaInfo and look at the differences.

[pirej]

I had similar(maybe same) problems with "Philips LX3900SA", and after some testing.. i found out that it "doesn't like" avi files bigger than 1 GB, and avi files with variable bitrate(lame mp3) audio.
So i would just split the video if its bigger than 1GB, or re-encode the audio.

[UmmAddan]

wow, that's a lot of Info... I'll try this over the next few days & hopefully figure it out! Thank you all!