DivxPlus - Play Divx and Mov on the Hollywood Plus card

[gryphon]

I have got the divx plus application to output to my TV with both the dxr3 and hollywood+ drivers (i have a dxr3) but I have noticed that the output with the HW+ drivers is less choppy than the dxr3. I can't install the HW+ player, I get an error about not being able to see the board.

But my real probem is that the output to my TV (with both drivers) is black and white. I have a PAL system, but when in PAL mode the screen is all garbled, but there is some colour there. With NTSC the screen is in the right place, but no colour.

Has anyone come accross this or knows how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Gryphon

[Peter]

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But my real probem is that the output to my TV (with both drivers) is black and white. I have a PAL system, but when in PAL mode the screen is all garbled, but there is some colour there. With NTSC the screen is in the right place, but no colour.

Has anyone come accross this or knows how to fix it?

Thanks in advance,
Gryphon
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I had black and white picture when I installed the card the first time. It was the s-video cable (yellow one). You have two types, one with 4 pins(I think it's composite) and one with 7 pins. I can't remember exactly. I first used the 4-pin connector, it came with my WinTV card, and got black and white picture. When I tried the 7-pin connector I got color.

Hope this helps
I have PAL.

[gryphon]

I have the 7-pin connector with spilts into 2 wires - AV wire and 4-pin wire, i connect the AV to my TV.

Do you have a dxr3?

Thanks again,
Gryphon

[tayeule]

Hi. In my case, all works just fine. But, I don't know if I can improve the size of the picture shown in my tv. The movies are Widescreen but it doesnt touch the left and the right side of my tv. It's showing right in the middle of it. Also, sound emerge only from my computer speakers. Can anyone please tell me what to do if I want to improve that?

[legman]

Yep,
All the setting in the H+ effect the display. Fix those, close it, then fire up divxplus and you are all set

[tayeule]

Sorry legman, I already tried it. And I've done it again just to be sure before posting this reply. The movie is still playing in the middle of my tv screen. Maybe a newer version of divxplus will help. Will see I hope really soon.

Maybe I'm doing the wrong thing, can you give me more explanations on what you've done to have what I'm looking for? I alson noticed that divxplus worked only when I'm not starting H+ DVD Station before launching it. If I start DVD Station, a hear undesirable noise in my speakers.

[legman]

Load the h+,

settings tab: no check in fit to screen or keep aspect ratio.

dvd tab: wide

run the auto configure

load a dvd

play it, then set it to tv out

check it is ok on tv

close it

run divxplus,

browse to your file,
choose a file with 640 width

use divx 311 alpha
do not have divx 4 installed or any other divx codec.

good luck

Make sure you run the setup exe in the installed dir and reboot before trying the rest.

good luck

[bendi]

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On 2001-08-02 14:53:59, vladik_17 wrote:
Hi guys!
Look, I've got amd thunderbird 1100mhz, 256mb, h+, sb-live! 5.1, and I can't use this program! What's wrong, when I start it, all I see is 2 buttons - "play"&"pause", when I click on one of them, I receive this "funny" message:
"DIVXPLUS caused an invalid page fault in
module DIVXPLUS.EXE at 015f:00401b46."

I have Duron 900 with 512 MB ram, Geforce2Mx and have exactly the same problem. I've seen a posting above with AMD proc has this problem too.
Maybe it's not working with AMD?

Bendi

[bendi]

Mike wrote this at news://news.sigmadesigns.com
for this problem:

"try this :

1. search for a "srenderer.ax"

2. Go Start->Run...

3. Type "regsvr32 c:\srenderer.ax" (of course change it to the right path)

4. try running it ,if you still dont get a file open dialog box ,close it a
try it again and again a few times , try restart if nothing else work and
try a few more times.


let me know if it works!

Mike"

I hope it works.

Bendi

[tayeule]

Yes! It works! Thanks a lot legman! I wonder one last thing: if I put my files on a cd-r, will I be able to play it through divxplus without any problem or will the picture be lagging, or will it be choppy? I wonder if it can play really smooth on a cd...

[Arzi]

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On 2001-08-22 04:05:59, bendi wrote:
Mike wrote this at news://news.sigmadesigns.com
for this problem:

"try this :

1. search for a "srenderer.ax"

2. Go Start->Run...

3. Type "regsvr32 c:\srenderer.ax" (of course change it to the right path)

4. try running it ,if you still dont get a file open dialog box ,close it a
try it again and again a few times , try restart if nothing else work and
try a few more times.


let me know if it works!

Mike"

I hope it works.

Bendi
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Well did it work? Where did you get that srenderer.ax-file? I couldn't find it with Windows' find. Strange

[legman]

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On 2001-08-22 14:46:08, tayeule wrote:
Yes! It works! Thanks a lot legman! I wonder one last thing: if I put my files on a cd-r, will I be able to play it through divxplus without any problem or will the picture be lagging, or will it be choppy? I wonder if it can play really smooth on a cd...
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Works fine here. Choppy on p2 450 in win2k. In 98se it is fine on the same box. The app auto=hor says use a 500 or better.

[jammer_27]

great site this is i did a search and found all your questions and answers

Guess What i got it to work

first of all
System is thbird 1000 running on a a7v mb using a asus gforce2gts pure hollywood + sounblaster 1024 win2000OS

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note..If you have a pal tv you need the little Svideo composit cable .

After installing this program at first i had just a little box with buttons no pulldown on the *LITTLE SCREEN*
and then an error same that it was wrong and should close down

I have uninstalled it twice and seen that te srender file does not go into the systems folder NOTE !!!!!

This time i tried all of your tricks .plus a few of my own.

first i uninstalled win media 7
second installed codac 3.11 but i did not *** take there older drivers *****
ran the set up for divx plus again and placed a copy of the render file in the system folder aswell ******note
I did not remove the render file in the systems 32folder

i then started my hollywood station win2000 version
but i did not chose a film
i then started Divx player it opened the search folder so i choose a film and paused it .
I then started divxplayer no 2 choose the same film ithen used the pull down and changed it to pal as i have a pal tv .
you get the pull down by right clicking on the little blue divxplayer sign .......
I then changed the other player to pal aswell and clicked play .


note you must then close the second player or you get a double film on your screen .

I tried to delete the srender from the sys32 folder.
The program needs it there
I tried deleting it from thre systems folder .

NO keep it the program needs it you will not get the search folder without the srender i both the systems folder and the systems 32 folder .

note the sound will not work asit is normaly mp3 and the sound on the holly station is stero or souround sound. So you have to play your sound through your sound card


Now i have only one problem that is to get the picture in the middle of the screen

well thatsanother story

ENJOY
Braindead rules
one thing i learnt in life was

You know your life together is getting stale when she stacks your Porn films up on the living room table .
************And LOCKS the bedroom Door
lol

[Peter]

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On 2001-08-03 01:17:40, L_R wrote:
The way to see AVI on the TV who early see only black scren:
1. Start DivxPlus player and select AVI file.
2. Push the PLAY button. You have nothing on the TV(black or some haotic line).
3. Push the PAUSE button.
4. Start second copy of DivxPlus player(do not close first copy player!) and select AVI.
5. Push the PLAY button. Viola, you have picture on the TV.
For my TV all AVI(DiVx) films divade(horizontal) on 2 not equal part. Right 1/3 part of films situated on left part of screen and 2/3 remaining part offset to right.

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That's exactly my problem

[GreatGhost]

Hi
When I start DivxPlus, I do only see two buttom play&pause, but when I cilck on one off these, divxplus it crasch

Do any one have same problem, ??? I have try reg c:\windows\system\regsvr32 C:\sdrender.ax 6 times, 2 reboot it did not help ??

I am runing Win98 SE
hp+ Drv 2.2

[danmanx]

GreatGhost, that is the same exact problem my best friend's computer has! It's supposed to come up with a popup "open" dialog box to pick the avi but it doesn't! If anyone knows why this is happening please post a reply here!

[Peter]

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On 2001-08-13 02:11:40, Loffas wrote:
hi there! got some bad and good news!
first the bad ones.. tried thjis out on my duron machine in winme.. not much luck there.. got the picture if I opend 2 and poused the other one but then got the 1/3 showin picture in the left side (fucked up)
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Does someone has a solution for this?
I have this problem also in WIndows2000.

TIA

[Arzi]

Has someone managed to fix that "Only two buttons: play and pause"-bug? Have you found that sdrenderer.ax file?

[ELiTEDude]

Anyone got it working in WindowsXP?! It works pretty good in Win98SE with the latest drivers for Holly+. Hope we can see updated version of this proggy soon!

This is sooo cool!!

[Peter]

People who has it running smooth, can you please post your system and os?

Thanks.

[zozo]

Yes Peter,

Here in France we are still trying to make this DivXplus on...it seem there is many compliance problems...with CPU, video card... motherboard, and maybe video card !!!
Following is a very small list of the PC compatibility running with with DXR3:

A-CPU=Celeron 433/MB=QDI exellent X1/!VC=SiS TV out 8Mo/SB16 pci
==>the best result(CPU not powerfull enought)of our tests with full compliance of the H+ drivers, DVD stating running without problemes beforeand atyer running DivXplus...

B- CPU=Celeron 466/MB?/VC= S3virge = same as the 1 one...

C-CPU= AMD-K7@550/MB=EPOX MVP3C...
work perfectly with both card H+ and DXR3...

I read here that a P3@733 work to, plz confirm...
for info, the list of the CPU with compliance problem=
P3@1ghz , Duron800, TBird 1200, TBird 1200...
If this forum can complete this as Peter say , it would be Great !

Thanks everybody !

[Peter]

I'm running a Duron800@1005 on a AbitKT7A-RAID with a Hollywood+ card. Picture is looking good, but I see the right 1/3 of the picture on the left side on my television.

[GreatGhost]

Hi
I did get my h+ Rev A work with DivxPlus in Windows 2000 but not with Win98 SE. (I can not longer play games that req both win and dos )

[Anderzzo2]

I'm using Win200 Server on a PIII 600MHz, 630MB SDRAM, Creative DXR-3 and everytime I run DivxPlus I get the "browse" window to select a file and when I select one and press ok the program ends! I've got the DivX MPEG4 codec installed! Isn't there any other programs that can playback AVI movies on the TV?

[danmanx]

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I've got the DivX MPEG4 codec installed! Isn't there any other programs that can playback AVI movies on the TV?
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I don't think DivXPlus is compatible with DivX4. I think it only works with DivX 3.11alpha.

[Peter]

If I set my processor clock on 500 I get a normal image on my tv, but the movie is stuttering, because the processor isn't fast enough.
So it obviously a speed issue, why people get the 1/3 split screen.
Know I have to find the max. speed at which it's working.

[Anderzzo2]

I got it working now but on some movies I get a 100% cpu usage and the picture is stuttering, should it do that on a PIII 600MHz with 630MB SDRAM and a 30GB 7200rpm HD?

[kitty]

Even though I am one of the few people that this proggie can get to work a decent portion of the time I still would like to see it move from alpha to beta version - has it been updated?

[Peter]

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On 2001-09-26 15:40:05, kitty wrote:
Even though I am one of the few people that this proggie can get to work a decent portion of the time I still would like to see it move from alpha to beta version - has it been updated?
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What speed is your cpu running at?

[donbacardi]

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On 2001-07-29 11:08:48, kitty wrote:
It does work with the Creative Dxr-3 too! I tried it and it played a DivX from archive.org and a simple .mov

It only outputs on the video out, not in VGA overlay so I had to get a composite monitor. The sizing/invert works fine. Frame rate on a P3/733/133MHz bus/256MB machine was fine, no noticable jitter.

Problems noted: Opening a complex .mov generated faults like this:
Windows 98 Version 4.10.2222
DIVXPLUS caused an invalid page fault in
module DIVXPLUS.EXE at 017f:00401b46.

Examples are Phantom Menance Quicktime 480 and Star Trek Insurrection (which I thought was tame).

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hi, i also have a creative dxr3 card, but when im using divxplus on win2000 it doesn work. Or must i use this prog in combinations with creative encore??