Anyone experienced this trouble with DIVX Converter?

[Inv8r_ZIM]

I've been trying to use DiVX Converter to go from an old MP42 AVI format to DivX for use on a Philips 5960. I have been using the Home Theater profile in the tool on videos averaging around 480x368 @ a bitrate of around 800-860 for the video, and 96-128 for the audio. The files I'm getting out have been, apart from a couple of hideous audio-sync issues, for the most part reasonable, except that at around the 10 minute mark, through to about the 15 minute mark, the framerate seems to drop significantly, leading to jerky video playback (the audio is fine). The problem vanishes after a few minutes, but is repeatable every time in the same spot, and happens in roughly the same time on every file I've proecessed through this tool, so SOMETHING has got to be happening during the encode. Has anyone seen this, and is there a fix? Alternativly, has anyone had good results with another inexpensive converter going AVI to DIVX?

[jman98]

I haven't experienced this problem, but I only used DivX Converter once maybe 1.5 years ago. Dr. Divx is really a superior option for encoding. If you have the DivX Converter then you have a licensed version of the DivX codec and you'll have no problems with Dr. Divx. Dr. Divx is not difficult at all to use and has some very reasonable default values. The thing that sucks about DivX Converter is that it is a tool for dummies (no offense intended - I said I used it once too) as it has no way to set any options by hand in it. That makes it useless to me. Try Dr. Divx and see if works better for you.

[billqs]

I've had good experience with SUPER and it's free.

[painkiller]

Inv8r_Zim, I would agree with Jman98 but would also go so far to say that Dr Divx is a free app that would likely solve that issue.

What's missing in what you've told us though is whaat version of the divx codec you are using, the latest one 6.5.1 will also work with Dr Divx. The codec version should have nothign to do with the problem you are experiencing. However, It looks like you have a single 200G C: drive. SOme of recommend a secondary internal hard drive to put & process your videeos on. The space isn't the issue so much as it is the processes that your OS regularly performs on the C: drive. No matter the amount of free space - this could be the problem with why your conversion is consistently having the 'hiccup' at the same place.

Although, the other possiblity could be if you had editted the video and that "spot" isn't quite right after the edit. You may want to ry that again (GOP errors?).

[Inv8r_ZIM]

Hey, sorry, I was using the 6 version of the codec (I know, I just kept navigating past the upgrade nag), and only got around to installing the 6.5 upgrade this evening. I was not using Dr DivX becuase it seems to have a tendancy to force a size reduction on the video, where I was going to be losing about 30-40 pixels width. The resize slider will only go to a maximum of slightly smaller than the original size. Since this will be viewed on a 50" set, the more resolution the merrier. I actually have three HDDs in (this) my editing machine. Sometimes I was reading the mp42 avis from a DVD and writing to C:, sometimes from the C: drive and writing to the E: drive. Again, what was really puzzling is that this occurs in multiple files in around the same area. Possibly just a problem that the DivX converter has with the mp42 format, who knows. I've run it again through Dr DivX today, and will have a look at the results when I get home - I wouldn't have though that Dr DivX would provide much different results, as I thought the transcoding was all basically the same code as the converter from DivX, just in a package which allowed more tweaking. I had played around with Super before for something else entirely, but I'll give it a shot if Dr Divx doesn't solve the issue. Thanks for the suggestions, guys!

[jman98]

Dr. Divx does not necessarily force size reduction. That depends on the encode profile you choose. If you choose certain low resolution profiles, then yes, it will do that. Choose the High Definition profile and it will let you resize or not as you choose. I find it more difficult to use, but AutoGK may give you even more control over size than Dr. Divx. The nice thing about Dr. Divx is that you do have control over the settings. You can't change anything in DivX Converter.

[Inv8r_ZIM]

Curiously, it actually DOES impose a maximum of 464x362 on the slider under either the home theater profile or the high-def profile, tossing out about 20 pixels in either direction. No matter what I try, the options ONLY allow a Maximum of 464 pixels. Don't know if this is because I've had this version (1.0.6 build 105) of Dr Divx for quite some time and it's an old flaw, but the restriction IS there for some reason. However, after checking the new file, it DOES look as though when processed through Dr DivX the framerate drop is no longer present, so it's probably worth exploring further.