.MKV to DIVX worked but not really

[cabala]

Ok so I downloaded a anime release and they were in Matroska container format and i wanted them to be in divx so I can watch them on my DVD player. Pretty normal so far. I followed a few guides mainly one from this site. I used:

1. mkvextractGUI to extract all the particular files. (Video, 2 audio streams, subtitles, and chapter index)

a. Video says it is an Xvid file
b. Audio stream one is mp3
c. Audio stream two is also mp3
d. Two subtitle tracks
e. One chapter index (.xml file)

2. next i ran River Past Video Converter to convert the xvid to divx. Not sure if this was necessary since i think xvid is divx. Not sure on this. Im not sure if DVD players also play Xvid files. I've tried to research it but i just get sites selling DVD players. lol After it converted it to a .divx i had trouble getting other players and converters to recognize it so i simply renamed it to a .avi file. Not sure if this is ok.

3. lastly i ran AVI-Mux GUI to mux togethor the audio and video. Dont need subtitles because i'm only using the english track and anime subtitles never match up to the english words. I find that humorous. This step also worked as well. Oh also tried to incorporate the chapter index but not sure it worked correctly.

4. tested new file on comp. and everything was perfect. I think there was some video quality loss. Seemed a little more blotchy in some places but could just be me. Audio and video were in sync though so on to burning.

5. burned using nero and proceeded to pop it into dvd player. It recognized the file and as a divx file and started to play. however i only got an X (in upper right corner) then it kicked pack into the main menu.

From here i thought maybe the incorporation of the chapter file might have made it screwy so i went back and re-muxed it without the chapter stuff. Re-burned but same results.

Then i thought maybe its the audio stream and it needs to be something other then a mp3 but I used AVIcodec to check an existing .avi file I have that I know works on my DVD player and it had an mp3 file audio stream so from there I was at a loss.

I did decide to reburn the video file only from the River Past video conversion process and try it on DVD player and found it to work just fine. I think somewhere in the AVI-mux process something is going wrong. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for the long post but I wanted to explain everything in as much detail as possible so someone might actually be able to help. Thanks again.

[Baldrick]

try mux the video and audio with virtualdubmod instead, open the video, select video->direct stream copy and stream->stream list and add the audio and last save as a new file. And I would try the orignal xvid as most divx players supports xvid.

[jagabo]

It probably wasn't necessary to convert the Xvid to Divx. Most players that play Divx will play Xvid.

[Vegito72]

Xvid and Divx use the same algorithm for compression. So I'm pretty sure the decoder for Divx can decode Xvid as well, and Vice Versa.

Since it kicked you out immediatly, it was probably a problem with the header. Try remuxing the xvid file and mp3 with Virtualdubmod like Baldrick suggested.

[cabala]

Thanks all. The virtualdubmod worked perfectly. I went ahead and left the video stream in Xvid format and it all worked just nicely and played on my DVD player. On a side note I noticed some of the later episodes in my release have the audio encoded in AAC format. Do I need to convert these to MP3 first before muxing the audio/video togethor? Do divx DVD players support AAC encoding? I get confused with .AVI and .DIVX. I know that .AVI is a container like matroska's .MKV but sometimes the .AVI container contains a .AVI video stream. Any enlightment on this?

Also what can I do with a chapters.XML index file? Are these useless when converting to a divx format? Thanks again for all the help.

[yoda313]

use gspot or avicodec to determine what the file was actually encoded with.

[cabala]

I dont understand I already know what is encoded in. It is an .AAC audio stream. I guess I'm just not sure I understand. Does the .AAC audio stream need to be converted to an MPEG Layer 3(MP3) before I mux the audio/video togethor for it to correctly play on a Divx certified DVD player? Thanks again. And furthermore why would I use Avicodec on the audio? I already know the video stream is in Xvid and no conversion is needed! Yoda, did you even read the thread?

[jagabo]

I don't know of any set-top Divx/DVD player that can play ACC audio. You need to convert it to MP3.

AVI and MKV are containers -- standardized "boxes" in which you put audio and video. The audio can be uncompressed or compressed with any of a number of codecs. Divx is a codec but the company has added extensions to the AVI container. To identify files with those extensions the rename them with .DIVX.