DivX3 Problems

[Startropic1]

I have several videos that won't play on my xbox360, they're old and apparently Divx3 videos. I tried to open one of the videos in MPEG4 Modifier to check the header code, and it wouldn't open. It gave me the error message "invalid mpeg-4 video, (startcode not found at beginning of frame.)

I demuxed it with My MP4Box GUI and it spat out .div3 and .mp3 files. However it wouldn't remux these two files as an mp4 apparently being unable to read the .div3 video file.

I also tried filtering the video through virtualdub (this usually rewrites the header and solves any such problems) but this didn't fix the problem.

Here's the mediainfo log:

Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 688 MiB
Duration : 1h 49mn
Overall bit rate : 874 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.1 (build 2366/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2366/release
Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Codec ID : DIV3
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 3 Low
Duration : 1h 49mn
Bit rate : 753 Kbps
Width : 656 pixels
Height : 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.125
Stream size : 592 MiB (86%)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 49mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 112 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 88.1 MiB (13%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

[dannyboy48888]

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/269851-DivX3-to-DivX6 basically, divx 3 was not mpeg-4 complaint and reccomended you had divx 4 and 3 installed concurrenty back in the day. so you need to install ffdshow or divx 3 and recode it to another format. If possible get the source and make a new enocde

[Gramps]

This should do it:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/285664-DIVX-3-to-DIVX5?p=1727268&viewfull=1#post1727268

You may want to have it convert the audio as well, as 112kps is not standard. The utility in the link will re-encode it at 128kps

[El Heggunte]

You may want to have it convert the audio as well, as 112kps is not standard.

lame.exe --longhelp says:

MPEG-1   layer III sample frequencies (kHz):  32  48  44.1
bitrates (kbps): 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 160 192 224 256 320

MPEG-2   layer III sample frequencies (kHz):  16  24  22.05
bitrates (kbps):  8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64 80 96 112 128 144 160

MPEG-2.5 layer III sample frequencies (kHz):   8  12  11.025
bitrates (kbps):  8 16 24 32 40 48 56 64

[Gramps]

You are correct. However, many hardware players have problems playing back MP3 audio that is has a bitrate less than 128K I know that my LG DVD player (w/ Divx compatibility), Dlink DSM-320, and Popcornhour don't seem to like bitrates lower than 128K.