Video length on DivX-Standalone too high

[tom.tlr]

Hey all,
my DVD player is a Centrum Gemini 340 and is able to playback DivX/Xvid files. His chipset is an ESS-based one: Vibratto II.
But there are some problems with larger video files.
Currently I'm trying to play a selfmade video file. It's 1,7 GB big, the container is AVI and the video codec is Xvid (from MeGUI). The actual video length is about 125 minutes. But the DVD player displays in the file menu a wrong video length: something with 3000 hours.
When I start the video, it stops after 2 seconds and I'm back in the file menu.

I tested different things and the current idea is, that the filesize could be too big for the player.
Then I thought, the player cannot handle files bigger than 1 GB in a proper way. So I created a 900 and a 1100 MB part, to encircle the gigabyte mark. But both files played well.
I could go on and create more samples with different sizes to find out, if there is - at all - a specific limit on the file size. But I don't think, that this is a very... professional way.

Is there someone, who can tell me more things what I could do or how I can find out, what's really the problem?

Best regards
tt

[Chris K]

It's 1,7 GB big, the container is AVI and the video codec is Xvid (from MeGUI). The actual video length is about 125 minutes. But the DVD player displays in the file menu a wrong video length: something with 3000 hours.
When I start the video, it stops after 2 seconds and I'm back in the file menu.

Weird! In general the file size limit is 2 GB but it looks like your player has more a problem with the 125 min duration.
This according to the 3000 hours it reports.

You could try a test with a large file that has a shorter duration.
I would also check if there's a firmware update available for the player.

[guns1inger]

It sounds like the file is corrupt. A damaged index could cause playback issues and also an incorrect read of the file length. Try loading the file into virtualdub, scanning for errors, then saving a new copy in Direct Stream Copy mode.

[tom.tlr]

@Chris K:
What do you mean with a large file and shorter duration? The shorter the duration, the smaller the file. Can you give me some numbers (duration/size), so i can see, what you mean.
And yes, the latest firmware is already running.

@guns1inger:
The file seems to be okay, if i'm interpreting this output correctly:
0 frames masked, 0 frames bad, 0 frames good but undecodable

[guns1inger]

File size = bitrate x running time.

Two things to try

1. A file shorter than 120 minutes, but with a bitrate high enough to produce a filesize of approx 1800 MB

2. A file longer than 125 minutes, but with a bitrate low enough to produce a file of approx 1500 MB