Burned Divx movies stopping before end...

[Jeffross1968]

I'm having a weird problem where movies that I burn and watch in my Philips DVD/Home Theater (HTS3565D) will run great, until about 2/3 of the way through, and then just abruptly end, as if the file was cut off. Thing is, the file is complete, and plays fully from both the raw file on the HD, and via the burned disc on my computer. All of my older burned movies and tv series work fine. All retail DVD's run fine.

The burner is an LG. I've tried both Nero 10, CdburnerXP, and IMGBurn. I've tried just making a data disk, both with a single file, or multiple movie files. I've also tried making an image file first, and then burning the ISO.

Nothing works. Every time I try playing one of these with a problem, it stops at the exact same spot. I'm at a loss.

[davexnet]

Some players have a cut off point of 1 or 2 GB. That is the maximum they will play per AVI file.

[sambat]

All of my older burned movies and tv series work fine.

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Are the older movie disks also AVI?

[Jeffross1968]

All of my older burned movies and tv series work fine.

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Are the older movie disks also AVI?

Yes.

[Ai Haibara]

How big are the 'problem' videos? Which disc media are you using, and have you used it for each of the discs where you're experiencing the problem?

It might help to run a video that works in the Home Theater system, and one of the 'problem' videos, through MediaInfo, in Tree View. Compare the information you get for both, and see if there are any differences.

If your Home Theater system can accept USB flash drives, and you have a large enough flash drive, you might also try an experiment - open one of the problem AVIs in VirtualDub, set both audio and video to Direct Stream Copy, then save the video to a new AVI file, and see if your player also stops playing the new AVI in the same manner it did with the original.

[Jeffross1968]

Someone had mentioned the player maybe having a 1gig cut off points for AVI...is there a good program out there to cut an AVI file into 2?

[jman98]

VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod are free and can be used to edit AVI files. In my opinion the editing functions are not very obvious so look for a guide on the internet on how to edit AVI files with them and you can do it fairly easily. It's not difficult it's just that I'm not sure you'll be able to figure out what to do on your own. Basically you set a start point and an end point, save that part of the file, then repeat with a new start point and end point for the rest of the file.

In general Philips players do pretty well with Divx/Xvid so you might want to load Gspot and run one of your problem files through it and post a gif/jpg of the output so we can check and see if there are any oddities that are causing this issue. Instead of Gspot you could also load MediaInfo and post a gif/jpg of what it says about a problem file.

Instead of having to cut a bunch of files into pieces you might look into getting a media player like one of the Western Digital models. They are a lot more forgiving about encoding options that can cause problems with DVD/BluRay players when you play Divx/Xvid files on them. They're not very big either (at least if you get one without a hard drive that plays via USB or wireless) and won't take up much space.

[jagabo]

If you don't care on exactly which frame the file is split you can use VirtualDub's automatic segmentation:

1) File -> Open Video File
2) Video -> Direct Stream Copy
3) File -> Save Segmented AVI (set segment size to 1000, 2000, whatever you need)

But doing it this way may result in a segment that ends in the middle of a spoken word or some other inconvenient location. It's better manually mark the sections your self using the mark-in and mark-out tools, then saving that segment.

[sambat]

If the movies on the older disks play ok and copies of those disks don't play ok, then I don't see how cutting the files helps the root out the problem.

[Noahtuck]

If the movies on the older disks play ok and copies of those disks don't play ok, then I don't see how cutting the files helps the root out the problem.

Exactly where did he state that ?

Back in the day Xvids were never over 700mb so they would fit on CD-R's and a lot of people still make them ridiculously small

It was mentioned twice about the size limit for players that play xvid yet he never really answered what size the "new" burned ones are.

But it sure sounds like they are over the size limit.

I know my older Philips dvd player won't play any xvids over 2gb and does the same thing he described.