XviD to XviD?

[4ndr01d]

Hi everybody!
I recently purchased a DVD player with DivX/XviD playback for my mother, so I could burn my library of AVIs for her rather than convert them back into DVDs.

Only problem is that the player is picky about which DivX files it considers to be valid. I checked an entire season of one of my TV shows in the player and 3 episodes of it were not compatible with the player. I went home and placed them in GSpot and those three files had the XviD 1.1.2-Final Codec name.

Other Codec names that DID work were:
XviD 1.2 SMP
DivX 4 (OpenDivX)
XviD ISO MPEG-4

I am far from understanding the differences between al of these Codec versions and would like to know if anyone can tell me, why this occurs, and how I might convert XviD 1.1.2-Final to one of the above working versions.

[guns1inger]

The issue is more likely to lie with specific encoding settings, including GMC, qpel and packed bitstreams. You can unpack a bitstream without re-encoding with mpeg4modifier, however if the issue is GMC or qpel you will have to re-encode.

The simplest method is with AVI Recomp, which is designed to re-encode videos for standalone players.

[4ndr01d]

That was an insanely fast reply. Thanks!

Sounds like I have some trial and error in my near future.

[jagabo]

Rather than spending lots of time reencoding your files so they work on your DVD player consider a media player like the Western Digital TV HD Media Player (WDTV) or WDTV Live (adds networking support). Those play most media files without having to convert.

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=30

There are other manufactures that make similar players: Asus O!Play, Popcorn Hour, Xtreamer, Tvix, etc. DVD players are so old school! LOL

[jman98]

We have a sticky here that talks about which encoding options are problematic on DVD players that play Divx/Xvid:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic352457.html

jagabo's suggestion is quite good. Media players such as the Western Digital models not only tolerate a lot of things that DVD players won't, they also support high def resolutions. You're not likely to see this in your files, but any Divx/Xvid file encoded with a GMC using 3 warp points is not likely to work on anything. I don't have one to test with my Western Digital player and I'm too lazy to encode one myself for testing, but all tests in the past on various players failed if the file used 3 warp points but worked if it only used 1 warp point.

[jagabo]

WDTV Live doesn't support Xvid's 3 warp point GMC.

[porfitron]

DivX Converter (included in DivX 7) will let you convert those files within profile for a DivX-certified player. The only part that pertains to the trial is creating DivX Plus HD files (H.264/MKV), but it remains free to create DivX/AVI files.

[4ndr01d]

Thank you all. As soon as Christmas is over I'll look into all the responses.