Smearing Artifacts With Divx 5.0 Pro

[can2day]

For some reason, I am getting awful playback on movies I have encoded with the Dixv 5.0 pro codec on my Windows 2000 box, although they play fine on my XP machine.

Essentially, the video "smears" after hitting each keyframe, leaving blurry traces of the motion areas. Both machines have the 5.0 codec installed, and I am using media player 6.4 to view them (although the artifacts are also produced when I view them in virtualdub).

As i said, they look fine on my other PC. Any ideas?

[Yas_Chan]

could it be interlacing problem?

Could it be interlacing problem? Did you check my post about a little similar thingy?

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.phps=&threadid=8421

In my case, the problem was in the video file. Did you try deinterlacer?

[can2day]

Thanks for the reply. The link for your thread does not work, but i'm pretty sure its not a interlacing problem. They look fine on my other PC (a Celeron 1.1GHz) and I know that the source video is definately not interlaced in some cases.

I thought the problem is just that my system is too wussy to decode Divx 5. However, if I step through the video frame-by-frame in virtualdub, the same artifacts appear (but again, only on my PII). Surely this should not be CPU dependant?

Oh, and i'm also getting strange green blobs appearing at the edges of the video. I seem to still have the old Divx 3.11 codecs installed as well.

[Batman]

Search this forum, I believe something was posted, that was akin to your problem, you may find it here. Alternatively, I would recommend divx 3.11 alpha over divx 5.

[can2day]

I was never happy with Divx 3.11 though. With the fast motion codec, I could get okay quality 1 cd rips, but trying to work out the bitrate for a particular filesize was a black art. The low motion codec made a complete hash of fast moving scenes unless I set a v. high bitrate, which meant 2cd rips for everything.

I found the Divx 4 codec to be a huge improvement on this, allowing me to get 90 mins of good quality video on a single cd.

[Batman]

you should use divx 3 low motion.