Searching in divx/xvid crashes player.

[haloblack]

I have a few music videos that I made when I first got into capping and encoding. When I play them they're perfect, but any attempt to search causes the player to crash. I've tried mplayer classic, wmplayer, ati mmc, same thing in every one. I made them with various settings since I was just learning at the time, and I can't see a common denominator that they all share that would indicate the problem. Is this a problem other people have had? I was about to start archiving a few big avi's I have taking up space, but I don't want to end up with unsearchable files.

[teegee420]

You could try updating your xvid codec (make sure you uninstall the old one first) or install FFDSHOW. It could be your current xvid decoder causing the problem.

[Suntan]

What container format did you use?

AVI is not nearly as flexible as OGM or MKV for seeking and such.

-Suntan

[haloblack]

What container format did you use?

AVI. At the time, I thought that was the only option. What is it about AVI that makes it bad for searching?

[teegee420]

There's nothing wrong with the AVI container. Whomever encoded the movie didn't allow for enough key frames.

[haloblack]

There's nothing wrong with the AVI container. Whomever encoded the movie didn't allow for enough key frames.

So what counts as "enough?" 99% of my encoding experience is with svcd/dvd and I've never had a problem like this. Do I just need to bump up the number of keyframes and that's it?

[teegee420]

It's not that simple. You can try re-writing the index with DivFix but there's really no way to insert as many key frames as you would like, at least that I'm aware of. I normally encode with a max keyframe interval every 30 seconds.