Purple Patches pop up intermittently

[Jeremy Little]

I recently converted a divx file to Mpeg for VCD burning and got a purple haze that pops up and goes away all the time. It does it on both discs and the files were already cut whenever I recieved them. The file is 136 MB,
352 x 288, 24 Bits, 42928 Frames, 12.500 Frames/Sec, 40 KB/Sec, MS-MPEG4 V3. The audio is MPEG Layer-3,56 kBit/s, 24,000 Hz, Stereo. Now, is it something that can be fixed? It is weird, it pops up for a few seconds, disappears, comes back again and disappears. I didn't burn it to a disc yet, since I always test my MPEGS before burning.

[Baldrick]

have you checked the faq? http://www.vcdhelp.com/faq.htm#angelpotion ?

[Jeremy Little]

Yes, I did read that. I am not using Angelpotion at all. I have even installed the other codec. I still get the purple crap in my picture. I don't know what caused it, is there anyway someone could introduce some kind of watermark into the picture that shows up when converted? Any other ideas?

[Blacklotus]

i get those now and then too - i think its just a bad rip

[wabil]

Finally someone else with the same problem I've been having.
I have the same purple patches.
I have tried many different codecs, Windows 98, ME, XP, I've tried a few different video cards, and many different
templates and I see it on every divx->VCD or SVCD conversion I've done. If I do a conversion of a Screener avi file it turns out fine, but every HQ Divx has the purple patches.
I have not found a solution yet, but I would like to keep talking on the topic, and hopefully someone can
help us out with this problem.