Any DivX players that play files over 2 gigs

[jntaylor63]

My old HTPC is on its last leg and I don't want to upgrade untill I see what it takes to do Vist and all the hoops to do HD-DVD, CableCard, ect. (And thats assuming you can DIY)

Lots of my DVD back-ups are DivX and over to gigs. (My Godfather is 3.5 gigs on a DVD-R) Thats no problem on HTPC, but can be on some standalones.

Looking for a brand I can get in the US.

THX, JNT

[Krispy Kritter]

I'm not sure about the file size issue, but my vote for standalone to play DivX would be the Oppo.

It can be found here: http://oppodigital.com/

The tech support is top notch, try sending them an email about your file size question and see what they say.

[Megahurts]

The Avel LinkPlayer2 will play DivX files over 2 gigs.

[jntaylor63]

I would think that an HD DivX player should play files over 2 gig.

I was looking for one that's under 100, but I may need to drop the cash to get that feature.

[celtic_druid]

Well for SD you should be able to be under 2GB's anyway. For long stuff like LOTR extended versions, Lawrence of Arabia, etc. it is split in two anyway, so you just have two 1.999GB chunks.

I did LOTR with 5.1 AC3 and all commentaries and it looks excellent. Also most players will move onto the next file once one finishes, so I guess you could just split them. Only ever experienced the effect jumping between episodes where any pauses/glitches wouldn't be obvious so I don't know how praticle it would be. As long as the split wasn't in the middle of a scene you should be ok though.

[reactivellama]

I am also in the hunt for a player that plays files over 2 gigs. I have piles of 2 gig plus movies since I like to encode with high bit-rates and AC3 sound. My Philips 642 stops dead at the 2 gig mark and there is a VERY noticable pause between files when they're split, also the 642 can start to have sync problems with the longer movies with AC3 sound. A player that plays files over 2gigs reliably with AC3 is pretty much my idea of a dream player!

[reactivellama]

UPDATE:

I did email oppo about the 2 gig issue and they got back to me right away with this reply.

There is an error in the UDF reading which causes the OPDV971H to stop halway through a file larger than 1.2GB. We are looking into resolving this issue, but we do not know when such a fix will be made available.

Which shoots down a player I was 99% sold on. I don't think I have ANY DivX movies under 1.2 gigs. So in the quest for a 2+ gig DivX player I'm back to square 1..

[Hkan]

Might be wrong here.
The maximum capacity of the AVI file that a DivX player can play is 2GB and this is due to the limit of the ISO 9660 file system!

[jntaylor63]

Hkan

AVI spec allows files under 4 gig. If not, my PC would not be able to play it.

I have had a autogk crash when trying to go over 4 gigs.

[celtic_druid]

ODML AVI specs allow for an avi of pretty much unlimited size. FAT32 allows < 4GB's. ISO allows < 2GB's and with non ODML avi's you have the same limitation.

You should only experience crashes at 4GB's if you are encoding to a FAT32 partition and that has nothing to do with avi.

[handyguy]

If you get an Xbox with XBMC, you can stream files from your PC. It can even read ISO's directly.

[CCRider]

I had the same problem, in that I have many AVi files over 2 GB and AC3 5.1 audio, that were created by joining 3-4 700 MB files with VirtualDub. My Philips DVP642 would stop playing as soon as it hit the 2GB limit, no matter if it was burned as ISO or UDF. My other problem was being to playback the DTS audio in any AVI file. My dream was a low cost DiVX player that could handle both, and the problem was solved by the LG530. It plays both AVI with DTS and files over 2 GB no problem. For $79.95 CDN on sale at FS, it was hard to beat.

[jntaylor63]

Thanks CCRider,

I guess I can look for it in the US.

I was also looking at the Pioneer DV-588A-S and DV-383, but I get mixed results from other AV boards. Or maybe the Philips dvp5140 Ultra DivX player

[cnelson87]

I have the Pioneer DV-588A-S but I haven't tried any divx/xvid movies over 2Gb. Give me a day or so and I'll report back.

[BJ_M]

i have found if you burn a disk with UDF 1.5 or higher - only (not bridged) you get better compatibility with large avi files....

[Soopafresh]

That OPPO is still a nice player regardless. I wonder what the upres-ing looks like from 480 to 720

[ntngod]

Or maybe the Philips dvp5140 Ultra DivX player

I finally did a quick test on this...

I found my 4-CD-size backup of Spartacus w/ AC3, joined it to one big file, created an ISO in Nero 7 (using UDF 2.01, no ISO whatsoever), and burned it with IMGBurn.

File was just under 3 GB, and it was recognized by the 5140 (although, perhaps due to the file size, it took about 7 seconds to load after hitting play in the disc menu).

I skipped through the movie, randomly checking it at various points to see if it worked normally, and for audio sync.

Even past the three hour mark (well past the 2GB point; the movie's around 3.5 hrs or so), it still played fine....

[jntaylor63]

Thats Great ntngod, Many Thanks.

(I guess you could join and burn your Multi CD Back ups as one DVD. )

Glad to see your philips unit will play these big files. I hope the HDMI verson will play too.

This one is in the 1st running. (Hoping to see what the Pioneer will do.)

[ntngod]

I haven't tested the older UDF versions yet - and I don't know what version you used when you created your large backups - so I can't guarantee your files would work as-is in the Philips units.

I don't know yet if the 5140 is sensitive to the UDF version used or not; I'll have to try UDF 1.02 when I get a chance.

[cnelson87]

I can confirm the Pioneer DV-588A-S will play divx/xvid files over 2Gb. I ripped the Battlestar Galactica 2003 miniseries (about 3hrs) to 720x480 xvid at over 2080Mbps, ac3 5.1 passthru, 23.97 fps (fyi, used mpeg4modifier to 'anamorph' it to 16:9). It came out to just over 3.2Gb. Burned with Roxio in UDF mode, v1.02. Plays flawlessly all the way thru with perfect A/V sync and even respected the 16:9 flag.

[celtic_druid]

Why not set the AR when you encode? That way you don't have to load it with MPEG4Modifier and resave. Also MPEG4Modifier doesn't support ODML avi's and therefor only support avi's < 2GB's. So come to think of it, how did you process a 3.2GB avi with MPEG4Modifier anyway?

[jntaylor63]

Thanks for the testing cnelson87,

I guess now its a toss-up between the Pioneer and the Philips. Its a hard choice too. I have always had great luck with Pioneer and this will work well with my current Pioneer HT.

But for less $ I can get the Philips with the HDMI output.

(I wish this could be a search feature in the DVD Player Listing so I would not have to ask so many questions)

[cnelson87]

The Pioneer has RBG component which is nearly as good as hdmi.

celtric_druid,
I encode on a Mac with ffmpegX and I've never seen an option to set the AR. but man, I wish...
then I copied it to my PC to run it thru mpeg4modifier, test, and burn. I don't know what ODML is, and if what you say is true then apparently neither does my copy of mpeg4modifier all I can say is that it worked, 3.2Gb in and 3.2Gb out, nice and anamorphic.

[Cornucopia]

IIRC, UDF v1.02 (with the microUDF compatibility for DVD-Video) supports only <1GB. v1.5 and above should be OK.

Maybe the UDF+ISO bridge thing is what's wrong with the OPPO--it's reading the ISO system instead of the UDF. What would happen if somebody tried a UDF 1.5+ only disc???

Remember to join the AVI's on an NTFS drive, as ODML, before burning, of course.

Sync issues with AC3 in AVI are a different issue though.

Scott

[FulciLives]

Pioneer has a new DVD player out now ... the DV-490V-S ... that is pretty much the same as the Philips DVP-5960/37 ... both do DivX/XviD and both do PAL to NTSC and both do 720p/1080i upconversion via HDMI.

The difference is that the Pioneer is not DivX Ultra certified but I'm sure it is the same or better than the older DV-588A-S ... at least in terms of DivX/XviD playback.

The only "hitch" is ... there is no easy way to make a Pioneer DVD player region free ... so if you need that ... you have to buy it pre-modified.

The standard USA region one model of the DV-490V-S is only $100 and that is the MSRP whereas the region free version is going for $179 on websites (I saw it at 220-Electroncis for that price).

I have a funny feeling though that the Pioneer will be a better DVD player all around but remember the Philips can easily be made region free by yourself and it is DivX Ultra certified whereas the Pioneer is only DivX Home Theatre certified and does not support the advanced DivX 6.x features.

Tough choice I know. Shame the price of the region free Pioneer is so high. I don't know about you but that is an important feature for me as I live in the USA but have many PAL DVD discs.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[sushix]

If you plug in the portable drive into the USB port of RJ-1800DVXII, it can play Divx content from the hard drive.

[jntaylor63]

Thanks FulciLives

I think the new Pioner will be my best choice. PAL DVD's and Ultra-DivX aren't that high on my list. I'm sure that the Ultra-Divx is a cool feature and gives users that DVD playback style, but I would not want to send the time to author such a moive. I just want to drop my DVD into AutoGK, set the file size for 3.8 gigs with 5.1 AC3 and auto resolution and let it do the work. (With AutoGK, if the movie does not that much space it will reduce it for you)

It would be cool if someone wrote software that could load an iso of a dvd with all of its chapters, menus and such and output an Ultra Divx file taht would playback the same as the DVD. Talk about a great DVD back-up and all on a cheap single layer DVD-R!

Oh well, those who can't code offer suggestions.

[whitejremiah]

as far as divx ultra.....and the menus and such, im sure eventually someone will come up with such a program.......it's much like everything else though, ya start with a simple command line program, then eventually someone makes a GUI for it, and eventually it starts evolving more and more and by the time everything's all said and done, you end up with a one click wonder....

[cnelson87]

I made another disc of mpg music vids. I didn't author it as a DVD, I didn't convert the audio to 48k (it's all 44.1), and I didn't re-encode the video from 320w to 352w. I just burned the dvd as a data disc in UDF mode, and the Pioneer plays it. How cool is that?