What do you prefer: Xvid or DivX?

[Spiral0ut]

What the... I was under the impression that a standalone DVD player that played DivX was fairly uncommon. How would you burn a DivX movie to be played in a DVD player? I'm guessing it's more complicated than just burning the avi file to the CD and popping it in the DVD player....

[Batman]

Originally posted by Spiral0ut
I'm guessing it's more complicated than just burning the avi file to the CD and popping it in the DVD player....

That's the way a standalone divx player is supposed to function. However, it may not support all versions of divx/xvid, gmc/qpel, vbr mp3, resolutions, bitrates, and various audio formats, and containers (e.g. matroska).

KISS and many other companies manufacture "divx certified" divx/dvd player.

You can find more information on mpeg-4/divx players on dvdrhelp.com by searching the "players" section.

[Rooster6975]

XVid is more prone to unrepairable bad frames.

The benefit of DivX is that it has error correction built into it. If it encounters a bad frame, it just glosses over it. If XVid encounters a bad frame, it either crashes the player or the video freezes (but the audio continues). Before someone tells me this is only on downloaded movies, that is not true. I have had this occur on my own home movies I have put together using Gordian Knot from a DV source. It works most of the time, but occasionally a bad frame will creep in there and playback will freeze. It is incredibly annoying, as a result, I only make DivX 5 AVIs which have never experienced this problem.

Cheers,
Rooster.

[Drewby]

Originally posted by Spiral0ut
What the... I was under the impression that a standalone DVD player that played DivX was fairly uncommon. How would you burn a DivX movie to be played in a DVD player? I'm guessing it's more complicated than just burning the avi file to the CD and popping it in the DVD player....

Nope!

I download a DivX MPEG (no AVI files work) file and use the Windows XP built-in CD burning software (just drag and drop) and click burn. 15 minutes later, pop it in and my DVD player gives me a menu showing all of the files on the disc. Just click OK and play. Very simple.

However, I wish it played AVI files as DivX MPEG files are hard to come by. MPEG is considered VCD, so it oughta work in most all DVD players (however, some DVD players support VCD but not the DivX decoding).

[Spiral0ut]

How would one go about encoding a DivX MPEG video?