*Burn a DIVX MPEG4 to a CR-R How?

[kathleenbilly]

Right I am new to DIVX but have got as far as follows,

I have downloaded a great DIVX MPEG 4 File 686MB

I have the Nero 5.5 9.9 Burning Program.

I have the Yamada DVDX-6700 standalone player which I have just brought.

Now from reading up this AND HOW TO BURN AS I UNDERSTAND IT,

Remember I am only burning to CD's hense the file size I do not have a DVD player or burner.

Open Nero burn a data disc CD-ROM (ISO) Correct?

I have ticked no Multisessions as someone adivised in a previous post I read and finalise the disc. The DIVX Mpeg file drags into Nero perfectly and burns with no problems.

I place into my player and it does not recognize the disc says unknown Disc....''

Any help from anyone will be greatly appreciated on this problem or tell me where I'm am going wrong...? Thanks KB

[guns1inger]

It is just a bog standard, nothing facny, data disk. Is it not an ISO, as you have the files, not an image (although it's been a while since Nero graced my computer, so maybe Nero just throws the ISO tag in there anyway).

If you put the disk back in your PC can you read it ? If so, what do you see ?

[neomaine]

If your standalone player does play divx then I'd just burn the DIVX file to the CD as a data disc to see if that helps.

You may also be running into a couple of things I experienced in my VCD days. That is:

- The standalone simply doesn't like your brand of CDR. Simply try some others.

- If the standalone has a hard time with CDRs then try with a CD-RW. This worked for me on one of my standalones.

[Abond]

Wrong replay.

[redwudz]

You might want to check your YAMADA manual and see what their specs for a compliant Divx is. You can drop the Divx file on AVICodec or Gspot to see what it is. There can be many variations of Divx and your file may not be the proper format for your player.

[kathleenbilly]

OK Thanks for looking in this is what I have tried given your responses,


Was using using Traxdata CD-R quite respectable media,

So changed to a Verbatim CD-R again burning as just a Data Disc using drag and drop to create a data disc and also using just the wizard to create a data disc still the same no go in the player.

Playing the disc which I created as a data disc back on the PC fine it plays great I am using VLC media player.

Checking the Video spec in VLC it tell me it is 25.00 frames which I know is Pal and the codec is MP4V for Video and MP4A for audio.

My Yamada standalone player is

MPEG-4 video playback
MPEG-4 (Simple Profile (SP) ADVANCED SIMPLE PROFILE (asp)
Video Decompression: MPEG-1 MPEG-2
PAL/NTSC playback

The DVX-6700 is the latest multi-format DVD player from Yamada, who have a cult following amongst those "in the know", and this model is the direct successor of the DVX-6600; previously the best DVD player available this past year. Unlike most conventional home DVD players, the DVX-6700 is also capable of playing DVDs, VCDs, SVCDs, DivX, XviD, MPEG, MP3, WMA, OGG and displaying JPG files; quite an impressive list!


Thats why I brought it!

Any advice should I try another Divx file possibly?

[celtic_druid]

Looks like you have an mp4 file with MPEG-4 video and aac audio.

Your player unfortunatly only supports avi and divx (basically the same thing) containers, also it won't playback aac.

You need to convert/remux to avi.

If you want mp4 support then you should get a Nero Digital certified player.

To check whether your mp4 actually uses DivX, you would need to check the userdata tags chances are though that it was encoded by something else like Nero Digital, XviD or libavcodec.

[guns1inger]

point g-spot at the file and confirm it's exact make up

[kathleenbilly]

Right have got G-spot

and its telling me its not a valid AVI file which you probably expected also it says Stream Type Non-AVI File type unknown...etc etc it won't render in the program or play in any way.

So ok thats the main reason it won't play in my standalone so ok just to finish then if I want to download a DIVX or a XIVX can I take it that if it has been done with a AVI ext it will be compatable with my player?

And to look only for these type of files?

Or if not what do I need to look out for?

[TBoneit]

Think of AVI files as a jar of pickles. It can hold many types of pickles.

Now lets say your player can only play jars of Dill pickles. You get a new jar of pickles (AVI file) and in that jar are bread and butter pickles. It won't play. or maybe you can only play dill pickle spears and the jar has dill pickle slices, won't play either.

An AVI is just a container that can hold many types of video and audio some type of which your player can play and some which it won't. So looking for an .avi extension guarantees nothing.

Good Luck

[TBoneit]

Divx players can not play all divx encoded files, plenty of threads here about that.

VLC player seems to be able to play most things thrown at it. even when you cannot convert it.

If you are getting Divx/xvid files from all over expect a certain percentage to fail to play. That's life, in those cases expect to either re-encode them to play and take the quality hit or just discard them and move on.

[celtic_druid]

No. Just because it uses XviD/DivX for video and is in an avi container or even worse happens to have .avi for an extension doesn't mean that it will play.

Your player is I believe using an MTK chipset? If so then it can handle everything that DivX can throw at it unless the resolution is greater than 720x576.

In the case of XviD you can throw 3 warp point GMC into the mix. Also the audio might not be compatible or it might not really be an avi.

[kathleenbilly]

Wow,

Got the whole Divx wrong really thought it was a case of download and play so long as you have a Divx player.

I also got the standalone player to be used to play Kvcd's as well lucky for me....""

So I think I will download Kvcd's which will play every time and the quality is good enough with the file size the same if not more within the 800mb which is what its all about for me.

Little bit dis-appointed if I'm honest on the Divx thing to download and work on a hope it will play basis is not really good enough for me.

May try a couple but hey if I can get the same thing on a Kvcd can't really see the point?

Thanks to all help on this appreciated,

Oh and yes I do have VLC mentioned by TBoneit and the file does play bloody good quality it is as well!!

Oh well it was never meant to leave my computer I suppose!

[celtic_druid]

Well if you encode with DivX (or XviD) using the Home Theatre profiles then it should always work as long as you use avi as a container or mp3/AC3 as audio.

Should also point out that there are players that support the mp4 container and aac audio.

[kathleenbilly]

Well I had to try another download of a Divx

and hey presto worked and played no probs in my player.

OpenDML AVI 1 vid frame (33 ms), p=522 Split: No

DX50/DIVX

DivX 5.0

This is a valid AVI file and gave the above specs in Gspot so very happy will now download more.

I will look more for the AVI ext on the file if I can before download, 8)

Oh I really thought I had the latest player to play all formats including MP4 and its container stuff,

Things move fast in the Divx world it seems!

[celtic_druid]

I'd have to check but I find it hard to believe that they defined the visual MPEG-4 specs without defining the container specs, so mp4 would be just as old as MPEG-4 video and therefor older than DivX.

DivX 4.x could actually output to mp4, however I don't think it was 100% spec compliant.

[grazer]

I've just got a Yamada 6700 and having probs with "unknown disc" too.

I dl'd a 700MB divx file that I thought I could just burn & play, but got unknown disc error. The player is happy with the discs - I've tried other divx files with no probs.

I then converted the file to divx using divx converter - and it still won't play!!

GSpot says:
Video src type: 4cc: XVID
Audio src: MPEGLAYER3 (MP3) (0x0055)
Rendering successful

Any suggestions?

[celtic_druid]

Could be larger than 720x576?

[grazer]

Gspot says 628x236

Out of desparation I burned the file (and a few others) onto a DVD-R and it plays fine!

Can anyone think of a reason why it would play on a DVD but not on a CD (other CDs of the same brand with different files play fine)