Blurry Divx files, didnt use to be

[stratocaster138]

Alright, my DIVX movies were as clear as water then they turned to more like snow...not real bad but bad, why might this be? can i get them back to how they were

[jkl]

defrag your harddrive. 8)

[stratocaster138]

i did like a day ago

[jkl]

make sure you are using divx codecs from divx.com, not nimo or anything. if you have this and you inststalled any other divx codecs sinse the problem started. uninstall then reinstall divx 5.02 pro bundle.

[stratocaster138]

do video files loose quality if you save them to disk then put them back on your drive? im hopeing not.

[jkl]

that is a good question and i would say that you don't loose any quality. although you are burning data, one may say that it will be exactly the same as the original but some things can change that. even a slight error in the burn process (fingerprints, or anything else on cdr while burning can corrupt a file and you would not know it until you watched the whole movie and got to that peart. this is rare but i ruined a svcd once because of spec of what i believe was styrofoam about the size of a ant on the bottom of my disk. always check the"whole" movie every second not just searching through it before erasing the original. it takes less time than a download. but me personally, i don't take a movie off my harddrive until i encode it or decide that i will not encode it. if i just want it in the original format, divx or mpeg, then i'll delete it after i burn it to disk and check the data.

[jkl]

one thing i remembered is that cheap media, scratchs and fingerprints may cause promblems when playing files off the disk. if this is what you are doing, try transferring the files back to the hard drive and then play them.