Philips DVP642

[SPK8000LG]

Ok guys i know the DVP642 will play an XVID movie. DO if like to encode my movies on my comp to that. Ran into some problems. First all my files are OGM video files with 2 audio streams and 1 sub. When i used VirtualDubMod to reincode to XVID i get a moive but no audio. How can i fix this? Is there a better format to use or even a better converting program to use? TY for your help...

[junkmalle]

I don't think the DVP642 can play OGG audio. Enable full processing mode for the audio then compress it with Lame or some other MP3 codec.

[SPK8000LG]

I tryed that but the same thing is happing. I get an AVI file with out any sound. I need to have that AVI with both tracks "inbeded" in the file with an Sub file for it to play in my player. Am i right? How do i do this?

[celtic_druid]

Are you sure that the video isn't already XviD? The only embded subs that most players support are xsubs in the divx container. Whilst most will play an avi with an external srt fine, they won't play it if you mux the same srt into the avi with AVIMuxGUI.

As said, I don't think that the 642 supports vorbis audio and VDubMod can't remux it to avi (as you have already found out). It should be able to recompress to mp3 ok though. Not sure how the 642 handles multiple audio streams though.

[jman98]

I am not a huge DivX user, but I have the DVP642. It is very fussy about what it will accept for DivX and it won't play just anything you throw at it. For best results, you will need your audio to be MP3. It absolutely won't play OGG. Try demuxing your original file and simply convert the audio to MP3 using something like BeSweet GUI. Your subtitles will have to be in a separate file, they can't be in the AVI container. SRT works best. In theory SUB will work, but I never had any luck with anything but SRT. I strongly doubt this player will support anything but 1 audio track for AVI, probably only the first. It only supports 1 audio and 1 subtitle stream for SVCD, even though the standards allow for SVCD to have 2 audio channels and 4 subtitle streams.

[Krispy Kritter]

Check out this post here: http://groups.google.com/group/alt.video.dvdr/msg/2ceddfcef68cc358?dmode=source&hl=en

[giannid]

The DVP642 will handle 2 audio tracks in an .avi file. With AutoGk you have the option to add a 2nd audio track if it's available, and the resulting .avi will play OK.

[DereX888]

demux it. encode all audio to mp3.
remux it with all audio (you can have more than 2, i have tried with 4 and all were selectable on dvp642).
you can add subtitles back into the AVI container if you want, they dont take much space, *and* keep their separate copies with the movie as well (thats what actually i do in similar cases).

Here:
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?guideid=777#777

EDIT:
I have tried with 4 audio on SVCD, not AVI, sorry.
But it should play nevertheless.