might fix your xvid problem

[wolfrider]

Hope this dont hurt to post here.

Ive had three xvid files that have gave me more trouble then they are worth but at last after reading and lots of giving up then trying again I have finally found a system that worked on all three xvid files and proud to say they are all on vcd and working now.

All 3 files had bad frames in them which seems to be the biggest problem I have read about or the cause of most of the problems anyways.

So here it is.

1. First used the avi fourcc program (found in the tools section) to change the xvid to divx. A side note for other newbs like myself since I didnt realize this, in the avicc box you can just type divx in both boxes since its not an option in either of them and hit apply this achieves the same purpose of switching the file to divx rather then xvid.

2. I then ran threw divfix to check for errors, this step could be skipped if you already know the file has errors.

3. Using vdub-mp3-freeze (also in the tools section) I hit open file and click the popup extended open options at the bottom left corner. checking the Re-derive keyframe flags and then hitting ok. This step will take awhile depending on your system.

4. after it has completed its re-keying I then open the video tab and hit direct stream copy, then audio tab and hit direct stream copy there also. This shouldnt take too long to complete.

5. Once the file is copied I then check for errors again in divfix and it should be clean.

6. Convert using your choice of program, to mpeg then onto vcd or I suppose any other format you might use, I personally only doing vcd at this time but I'd guess this would work for others the same.

I'm not putting this up as a guide so much as a suggestion cause I myself am still a newbie to the video thing but after weeks of trial and error and crying and reading this worked for me three files.

[DivXExpert]

When done re-keying, do a bad frame check and delete all the bad frames. Then do a direct stream copy. I find this more reliable than Divfix, dunno why. I guess cause I have more control over what is being deleted.

[DivXExpert]

Oh yeah. you could just intall ffdshow, to decode xvid. I like it a little better than the DivX decoder.