Video Problem with Divx/Xvid files on Media Player

[Vid-Kid]

Hi,

I have been converting my DVDs to DivX 5 for playback via my DSM-320 Media Player. While most of the videos play fine on my system, a few of them display a random blobs of pink pixels across the bottom of the screen. Sometimes they will climb a quarter of the way up the picture. If I play them on my PC with either VLC and WMP, they look just fine and there are no pink blobs.

I have checked them in GSpot and compared them against those videos that appear fine. I don't see anything different in the encoding settings.

I'm using UShare UPnP Media Server on UBuntu Linux. I'm not doing any kind of realtime transcoding. I also tried MediaTomb in case it was something to do with UShare. No difference. I use component video cables between the DSM-320 and my AV receiver. I have also tried different cables as well. No difference.

Here is the screenshot from GSpot:



Sorry, but I can't replicate the behaviour on my PC. Any ideas as to what could be causing the pink blobs?

[Soopafresh]

1)Test a file encoded to Mod 8 dimensions, that is the height and width must be divisible evenly by 8

2) Also, the specs on that machine say Xvid support, not DivX. You can change the fourCC with this little app

avic.rar

3) Also, that file is packed bitstream. You can try unpacking with this app http://moitah.net/download/latest/MPEG4Modifier.zip


One of those three things might fix it. Good luck.

[Vid-Kid]

Thanks Soopafresh! I'll give that a try.