Way to kill Xvid QPel or Re-encode??

[TugBoat]

Greetings,
Great day, not only did I see my next laptop today but I received the Avayon DXP-1000 Divix/Xvid Player from the brown truck. Seems to work great with the Divx files but will not play Xvids with QPel encoding. Pleezzzzz tell me I can doctor the fileS someway and avoid re-encoding a large number of Xvids
Anyone?

[jagabo]

You must reencode.

[TugBoat]

Yeah, I've already tried a few things that didn't work. Figured I give it one last grasp.

SOooo anyone know how to test the file for QPel encoding... other that burning them all to -RW media, sticking them in the machine, and seeing that stupid error message pop up?

[jagabo]

Don't know about the Mac but under Windows you can use MPEG4Modifier to test for QPEL and GMC.

[TugBoat]

8)
Hmmm, it's probably just a combination of me and the hour, but it appears that VPC 6.1.1 is even slower with QT 7.04 and 10.4.4...

Anyway, I finally got MS.Net, .NetSP1, and MPEG4Modifier downloaded and working in XPpro. Takes a little while to load the .avi... then XP decided it needed to reboot halfway through scanning the second file whatever, so far, the three files it's scanned say;
Packed bitstream: Yes
QPel: Yes
GMC: No
Interlaced: No
Aspect ratio: Square pixels
Quant type: H.263
So it looks like Toast 7.02 is going to be busy for a while. The Avayon likes the Toast DivXes and hated the ffmpegX .AVI DivXes I tried. Fortunately, Toast isn't much slower than ffmpegX.

Man, it sure would be nice if that 'ProBook' I'm getting next month would run Windows natively.

Thanks for the help,
Tom

[TugBoat]

Just an update seeing as how there's very little on this forum about Qpel and Divx/Xvid Players. So basically, if the movie was encoded with Qpel or GMC (Quarter Pixel motion search precision and Global Motion Compensation) none of the present players will play it. You have to encode it again.

Presently there isn't an App in OSX that will check a movie for this. And for some reason, my perfectly good bare bones XP-pro SP2 VPC system hated the .Net and MPEG4Modifier combination. It would crash XP (Automatic Reboot) at LEAST every other movie load. I ended up trashing that Disk Image and using the backup I had made prior to installing .Net.

I did find that the Two Xvid options in ffmpegX worked fine on my Player. Strange that the two Divx options wouldn't. So after careful comparisons, I chose the Xvid/ffmpeg option over the Xvid/mencoder and Toast Dvix ones. I'm almost finished re-encoding the 10 bad Xvids (QPel encoded) I've found so far.

Are we having fun yet