xvid using 100% CPU

[SaTaN]

I have a xvid movie I want to convert to mpeg one, but every time I open it, it starts to use up 100% of CPU usage and crashes the programe im using, and if I just click on it to play it, explorer starts to use up 100% CPU usage, if I put it into TMPGEnc, it wants to take about 7 hours to encode, which usually a movie only takes me about 20 to 40 mins, any ideas as to why this is happening, any info would be much appreciated, this is something i haven't come across before, and I have been doing movies for quite some time now., thanks in advance for any info.

[SaTaN]

Forgot to say, when I encoded a small bit in TMPGEnc, there was no sound, so I need to be able to extract the audio in vdub first, but i can't while its using all that cpu, as it just crashes, the only prog that will take it is TMPGEnc, but thats no good without the sound..

[junkmalle]

Your Xvid file is a little corrupt and Windows is freaking out. There's a registry fix around here somewhere that will take care of the problem.

Or you can go here for a discription of the problem and instructions on how to fix it:

http://www.rojakpot.com/default.aspx?location=3&var1=68&var2=0

[andyp1]

usually a movie only takes me about 20 to 40 mins,

Are you sure ?? Are your comp spec up to date .

I would have thought you'd be lucky to get real time with an 1800 processor, unless you are talking about 15 minute movies.

[SaTaN]

WOooopseee, yeah I have a AMD Athlon 2600+ 2.08GHz, I should update that now, I had this one a while, I just not been in here for a while, as I havent had many probs on the movie side, every thing gone smooth till now, thanks for your speedy response guys, its really appreciated, Iv'e not got it sorted yet, but I wont give up, I'm still looking for the registry fix, thanks again.

[SaTaN]

I managed to figure out the registry fix, but now it wont encode, is it a dead video, or is there a way round it? as it plays ok in divx player, it seems such a shame to bin it 8)

[junkmalle]

Xvid movies have a list of keyframes at the end of the file. If the end of the file is missing you get the kind of symptoms you initially reported. And the file usually won't play properly in Windows Media Player.

Try using AVICodec to verify the codecs used.

Try the player from Divx.com -- it can play Divx and Xvid files with missing key frame lists (you won't be able to seek though).

If it is an Xvid file with a missing keyframe list, try using DivFix -- that program can rebuild the list.

[SaTaN]

I used Divfix, and it just turned the movie all green, think its a loss this movie, can't seem to do anything with it, does anyone have anymore suggestions before I bin it, thanks in advance for any info given.

[junkmalle]

There are often incompatabilities with different versions of Xvid and Divx that cause that sort (green video) of problem. You could try an older or newer version of the codecs. Since switching to the 1.0 version of Xvid (released about a month ago) I haven't seen many problems.