DivX, DivX ;), XviD, 3ivX...

[Bondiablo]

I'm still a little confused about which of these codecs are really necessary. Which of these do you really need to open most avi files? If you install the latest divx is there any need for an earlier one, can divx open an xvid or 3ivx, can xvid open 3ivx, can 3ivx open xvid...???

[RottenFoxBreath]

well all use is the divx 5.1.1,and the xvid 1.01.
never had a problem with picture,sound or syncing issues.
dont see the need of all the other ones.
by the way,my divx,xvid,mpegs,etc will all play now in windows media player,power dvd,etc with no probs either,no upside down vids etc.
i also installed the ac3filter,and thats helped a few times in virtualdubmod for keeping 5.1 audio on xvids.

[Bondiablo]

The last time I bothered to mess with it I remember there were times when VirtualDub couldn't open divx low or fast motion with only divx 5 installed and if I installed all of them there were 2 common problems that would show up in TMPGEnc, either it would want to do an inverse telecine on files that were already 23.976fps or it would think the audio file was much longer than it actually was and predict some ridiculous file size for the finished product.

[RottenFoxBreath]

for problems like that,i noticed that if i selected mp2 constant audio,it would be fine,but any setting involving variable rate audio would predict file sizes up to 5gig+ and byond,and that was on tv episodes roughly 20 minutes long.
even then,if you get a movie your converting and its 2 mpegs,or 2divx,xvid files,then you need to reduce them to about half of a dvd in size so the whole movie would fit on 1 dvd-+r.