DivX Pains

[danieljhatton]

Hi Guys,

Does anyone have any advice about creating DivX files. I have an animation I would like to play on a DivX compatible DVD player connected to a Widescreen TV. I have created several different video files AVI, Quicktimes, everything, (without audio) but non of them will run through the DivX Convertor without errors. (5022) to be precise. I have looked at Virtual Dub but I cant find any kind of option to save out for DivX.

I am running Windows Vista 64 which I am suspecting could be the problem...

[Joost Ink]

in virtual dub, under video/compression you can choose divx.
but you also have to check the resolution is playable on you player/tv.

[danieljhatton]

Virtual Dub 1.7.6 - Joost. Thanks for the help. I cant actually see DivX displayed in the list. Is there something I have to do to ensure it appears in the list?

Also, on another note. I am looking at the Video Post option in Studio Max and choose open Sequence but its asking for VPX files? I have a jpeg sequence from 0 - 1000.

You can probebly tell I am very new to messing with video files/formats.

Thanks!

[danieljhatton]

Ah. Dont download the Virtual Dub Version for 64x. It does not have the option for some bizaar reason..

[danieljhatton]

Ok, lol, new error. this has to be a Vista 64 problem....or..i'm stupid. When saving the AVI in Virtual Dub the following error occurs:-

"Unable to initialize the output codec. Check that the video codec is compatible with the output video frame size and that the settings are correct, or try a different one."

[Joost Ink]

I dont know if you need a special 64bit decoder, but you can check on http://www.free-codecs.com/ you have to install the codec.
I would recomend Xvid instead of Divx also.
i do know that virtual dub has a special 64 bit version.

as a side note; it would be better to output your sequence as png or tga, those are lossless, so you don't compress your output twice, with possible loss of quality.

[danieljhatton]

ok. after many hours of working out why I could'nt create simple DivX files I came to my conclusion. I can't generate a DivX file with size set to 750px wide. It was fine when it was changed to 624 x 352px. It seems there must be a pixel limit to divx. I did'nt know. : ) And the information is not readily available. Jees...am I a novice??

[jonasa]

I can't remember how DivX behaves, but some compression codecs wants size to be multiples of 8.

[DaForce]

divx is crap. Best to use xvid as already mentioned. You want koepi's version. Just google it.

Yes I believe divx has some restrictions.. i cant recall if xvid does but I dont believe so.