DivX Question

[Nodge]

I recently bought a new DVD player/recorder (Liteon A500GX) which supports DivX files. I have now downloaded a DivX file from the internet and I find that when I play it the video is up to a second out of sync with the sound. It seems others have also experienced this problem with this model. My question really is, is this definitely a problem with the player or could the DivX file be at fault? The file plays fine on my pc. I'm just wondering if DivX files can be encoded to different formats/standards and would it be possible to re-encode it to be compatible with my player?

Thanks

John

[RabidDog]

The file plays fine on my pc

nuff said.. the best idea is to create one of your own clips, from your own homemovie dvd's using one of the many tools and see how that plays.
easiest to use tend to be autogk, fairuse wizard, avi.net and many others
https://www.videohelp.com/tools?s=30#30

[wellsyuk]

I find a lot of (.avi.mpg) downloaded content becomes out of sync on standalone DivX dvd players - particularly as soon as you hit fast forward or even pause - the sync goes out the window. From what I understand there are ways to prevent this but if you download and watch a lot of material, you simply don't have the time/capacity to go through several programs in order to diagnose/correct something out of sync as it is like a lot of hassle to correct.
My advice is to sit through watching it without touching the remote!
Unless of course it's vastly out of sync from the off.

[Abond]

I'm just wondering if DivX files can be encoded to different formats/standards and would it be possible to re-encode it to be compatible with my player?

Well, sure - you can re-encode to DVD - it will be compatible
I would read carefully the manual to see what restrictions to DivX are listed there. Then I would load the file in GSpot to see what are the properties of the audio and the video and how these properties correspond to the restrictions of the player.

[jman98]

This kind of problem is almost always caused by VBR MP3 audio in the Divx file. Download a copy of Gspot and open the Divx file with it and you will probably see VBR MP3 audio. Unfortunately, it seems that many Divx encoding applications use VBR audio by default and many users are too stupid to know that VBR audio saves almost nothing in terms of disc space over CBR audio but it has the potential to create sync problems. Imagine if I sold HDTVs and I had 2 of the same model, but one cost $2000 and the other cost $1999. You asked me about the difference. I told you that the $2000 TV was perfect, but about 10% of the time the $1999 TV wouldn't work at all, would power off for no reason in the middle of use, would mess up your picture where it couldn't be watchable, and so forth. Would you but the $2000 TV or the $1999 TV? Of course, you would buy the $2000 TV. You'd be surprised how many dumb people would buy the $1999 TV to save a dollar and I think that's a pretty good analogy for how useless VBR MP3 is. The space savings are miniscule at best and all it does is needlessly open up a can of worms in potential sync problems over just using CBR MP3.

You can use a tool like VirtualDubMod to extract the audio file as WAV and then either remux it in as a WAV file or convert it to CBR MP3, understanding that the audio may suffer a bit as a result of this 2nd conversion to MP3. It's a fairly advanced topic and may honestly be more work than you want to do. Don't blame your DVD player, blame the idiot who encoded the file to begin with.

[painkiller]

I have found that sometimes that fault was on my end when converting a file, such as mpeg, to divx.

I would recommend using the latestcode 6.5.1 and latest stable release of Dr Divx.
I have had problems with the DIVX Converter, but it can do a good job.

Usually, I have also found that VideoRedo can help to ensure sync with editing/converting tivo/vob to mpeg files. I have never had sync issues taking those files then converting them to divx using Dr Divx.

FWIW to you.