A good Preset for a DIVX Player? (Philips dvp642)

[Testaroo]

This forum (and this software) has been incredibly helpful to me, thank you Major...... But I have a question.

I have a Philips dvp642, on which I would like to play divx (or xvid) movies encoded with ffmpeg, and burned either on a CD or DVD.

Some have played great. Some others either play through the movie VERY fast, with half the image (or a garbled image) flashing on the screen. Others sometimes crop the movie oddly, and for the life of me, I can not see what settings I have screwed up.

Often this happens in a DIVX to DIVX re-encode, or a XVID to DIVX encode (Usually done only when the previous file does not work or does the same thing).

Is there a downloadable preset I could use, like the "Divx home theater profile" in Toast / Quicktime? Are there just a couple of settings I have screwed up that would do this? (Also of note, is that Hanbrake output plays perfectly. )

Thanks!

--Roo

P.s. anyone else had trouble with Toast repeatedly crashing during divx encodes at 142mb? Odd.

[Manolo]

I have been experiencing crashes on Toast 7.0.1 when I try to burn a DVD from .avi that I encoded in ffmpegX.

Do not know why.

M.

[yonidass]

Are you using the DivX Disc function in Toast with movies already encoded as .avi with ffmpeg? If they're already encoded then there's no need to choose DivX Disc that I know of. Just burn a data disc. All my ffmpegx .avis play fine in my player (though it's not a Philips).

[Testaroo]

I have tried both, actually... burning both the ffmpeg divx files as well as the toasted divx files. some files I just can't seem to convert to readable divx files. Could it have something to do with the FPS of the movie? I have tried using the "fix" function as well.

Just wondering if someone has a preset out there I could take a gander at.

--Roo

(The toast 142mb problem seems to be independent of the stuttering/skipping playback on the divx or xvid files-- a divx6 encoder glitch, perhaps?.)

[BeardFan]

I reencode the files that won't run on my standalone divx player with ffmpegx, using the standard xvid-mencoder profile (with mp3 audio). Then I burn a simple data dvd in toast (Mac/PC hybrid).

So far, all of these reencoded files played fine on my standalone player (and on my friends' players too). There are some things to be aware of: Max width on my player is 720 pixel and the max filename length is 56 characters.

This worked with different source files, mostly demuxed mkv and ogg, but also with some divx/xvid-avi that played fine on the computer, but wouldn't play on the standalone (mostly badly interleaved avis plus some files that were encoded with options that led to strange artifacts).

So you should test if xvid-mencoder works for you and then stick with that format.