xvid problems again

[wolfie33]

Hi all
i have a movie that is in the xvid format that i have put onto a DVD-r disk.
The problem arises when i put that disk into my div-x/dvd player the quality of the movie is terrible,it is what windows would look like running in 8 colours!
I'ts very blocky and basicaly unwatchable.
I think my divx player has divx501 codec built into the machine but the movie i'm trying to play is a later version i think so!
Would that make a difference.
And is there any way that i can do a quick conversion to suit my player rather than a 10 hour long avi-mpg job?

Ta all

 

[ChickenMan]

You found the problem, many AVI/DVD Players have problems with Xvids. Basically you bought the wrong unit

But to convert it to DivX, just load into VirtualDUBMod, and for Video Compression, select DivX. The hit the Configure button and set the Bit Rate to something just a bit higher than what the original had (Use GSPOT to check the original AVI's Bitrate). Then hit Save AVI. Normally takes about 1/2 to 1.5 hrs on my PC. You need to have the latest of both Xvid & DivX codecs installed on your system, of course.

 

[celtic_druid]

Possibly an issue with a custom quant matrix.

Grab MPEG4 modifier. It is a must have for anyone with a standalone MPEG4/AVI player. It can report the matrix used, whether b-vops, s-vops or q-vops were used, also the max number of bframes, whether packed bistream was used and if so it can unpack it for MediaTek based players when more than 1 bframes were used.

GSpot is also usefull. Make sure it is a recent alpha/beta though.