divx/avi synch issues...do all dvd players have problems?

[lanemeyer45]

now onto my 3rd dvd/divx playing player and this has to be the worst yet..

once again the downloaded divx/avi play perfect through vlc/ windows media player etc but way out of synch when burned as data and played on the dvd player..

liteon toshiba & philips machines have all had this problem over the last few years....and i thought it was just the cheap dvd players that encountered this.


any remedies??

[FulciLives]

What is the make/model of the machine you have now?

The new Philips DVP-5140 and 5960 are both good as are the Pioneer models 393 and 490 and the two newer Oppo Digital models (DV-970HD and DV-981HD).

One problem that can cause sync issues are XviD files with packed bitstreams. You can check for that with MPEG4Modifier and that program can also create a new XviD file that is the same but does not have packed bitstreams.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[guns1inger]

Admittedly I have only owned the one Divx player - an LG that was a loyalty gift from one of my utilities suppliers - and on one of the first few movies I tested I noticed that it was out of sync. I tested the movie back on the PC and it seemed fine. A little more digging showed that the player had been set to output PAL by default, regardless of the source format of the avi file. In this case, the source was NTSC 23.976 fps. I changed the player settings to force PAL for PAL and NTSC for NTSC, and have not had a problem since, across a wide variety of material.