Distorted picture when files are burnt onto a DVD

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I’m having major issues with certain avi files; they seem to be Xivid and H.264/MKV files. I’ll start with the playback or lack thereof of some DVD’s I burn to play on my stand alone player that’s connected to my TV . Most of these files play fine on my computer with DivX Plus and WMP but once I burn them to a DVD (as avi files) only half of the picture shows, the bottom half of the screen is the garbled background the DVD player shows when there isn’t a disk in it. Now some of these files have been converted from Xvid or MKV to Avi because of the problem with the Divx player not playing some Xvid files. I don’t think this factors in though because some of them played fine before I burned them. I’ll go into the Divx player problem in another post.
I tried burning at the slowest speed, converting, and asking (in a post) if anyone else had this problem with the same file ( they didn’t) the only thing I ever got to work was converting to a DVD (VOB) file. I’m thinking it may be something to do with the output resolution (screen size) but I have noticed that files that played fine on the DVD player hooked to my flat screen have been of various sizes. I use Spamsoft for most of my conversions, but I have also tried using the Divx converter, and VDub but with VDub I have had a 1gb file become 90.1 gb’s! but that’s a whole other story, if ya can’t tell I’m wayyyy new at this stuff. I hope this is enough information, thanks for any advice you may have to get me on track. Here is the format info on one of the files that when burned and played on my stand alone shows only half a screen ( the tv is set on widescreen)

Format: Divx 6.9.2 YV12 Decoder DX50

I also get this audio error message on some of the files, but it really hasn’t been an issue..yet!
AVI: Variable bitrate (VBR) audio detected. VBR audio in AVI is non-standard and you may encounter sync errors up to 0ms when attempting to extract WAV files or playing in some players. If this is a problem, use Full Processing mode is recommended to decompress or recompress the audio. (This warning can be disabled in Options, Preferences,
AVI. bitrate: 128.0 ± 0.0 kbps)

SYS Info.

Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 (5.01.2600)
DirectX: 9.0c
CPU name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
CPU speed: 3000MHz
Memory: 2047MB
Screen size: 1152x864 (32bits)
Video card: RADEON X300/X550 Series, 128MB
Video driver: ati2dvag.dll (version: 6.14.10.6571)
Audio card: Realtek HD Audio rear output

[paglamon]

Give full information of a problematic avi file using Mediainfo(tree-view).

[tricks]

Ok, I'm new using these programs but I think i can figure it out, thanks

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Hope I did this right, seems kind of straight forward LOL oh and by the way the movie Suck, is a horror comedy, just wanted to put that out there LOL

General
Complete name \Divx Movies \S.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 871 MiB
Duration : 1h 30mn
Overall bit rate : 1 340 Kbps
Writing application : Lavf51.12.1

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L1
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate : 1 199 Kbps
Width : 640 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.178
Stream size : 779 MiB (89%)
Writing library : Lavc51.40.4

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 30mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 83.2 MiB (10%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.72 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 24 ms
Writing library : LAME3.97

[paglamon]

OK. Now please post similar info about an avi that is playing flawlessly in your player.

[tricks]

Ok, just to be clear this is the stand alone player we are talking about

[tricks]

Ok here is one I watched awhile back and it was fine

General
Complete name : Divx Movies \Already Burned\2001Screams.2010.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 701 MiB
Duration : 1h 23mn
Overall bit rate : 1 169 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Advanced Simple@L5
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 1h 23mn
Bit rate : 1 035 Kbps
Width : 624 pixels
Height : 352 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.196
Stream size : 620 MiB (88%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.1 (UTC 2008-12-04)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 1h 23mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 73.1 MiB (10%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 24 ms (0.58 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 151 ms
Writing library : LAME3.98r
Encoding settings : -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17 --abr 128

[paglamon]

Hmm. When compared the two files show some differences in 1)format profile 2)BVOP 3)Codec ID or Fourcc 4)Conversion program.
It is usually accepted that Adv simple @L5 is the most compatible format with standalone players.
BVOP is probably not too important.
You can try to change the codec ID of the problem file( from DX50 to XviD) using Fourcc Changer.
I prefer Virtualdub or AVIDemux as my conversion softwares.

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I have Virtual dub and Spamsoft, so when you say to try and change the codec ID of the problem file do you mean to reformat or convert the file to Xvid? if so how about to Divx? I tend to use Divx and I'm having an issue with some Xvid files not playing on my Divx plus player, but I wanted to resolve this issue first. Also does this mean that the resolution isn't an issue?

Thanks so much for the help, I'm starting to get a slight understanding of how to at least use some of this programs to find possible problems. I had to edit this because I forgot, I just watched another movie that was fine and it also used simple @L5, I'm going to look and see if I have another file that had the split screen (for lack of better term) and compare it to the other bad file, if I find it would you like me to post it?

[paglamon]

when you say to try and change the codec ID of the problem file do you mean to reformat or convert the file to Xvid?

No reformat or reencode. Codec ID is just how a player identifies a file. Thus an XviD avi may have codec ID of DivX or DX50 or XviD(since all of them represent MPEG4 ASP). But a standalone may just like the ID of XviD. So you just change the ID of the file by using AVI FourCC Changer(link in previous post). It will just change the ID of the file as seen by the player.
More about FourCC here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FourCC

Also does this mean that the resolution isn't an issue?

Seems not. The problem file is 640 x 352 while the nonproblematic file is 624 x 352.Nothing wrong with either resolution.

[tricks]

Ok I'll download FourCC, also I don 't know how this happened but I thought I typed Xilisoft, I have no idead how it came out spamsoft? very strange! LOL

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Is there a reason for xili soft becoming xilisoft when I type it as one word, or do I have a virus or malware? thanks

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Well I downloaded the fourcc changer but not sure were to go from there, I loaded the avi and there are two drop down boxes that contain mp41 mp42 mp43 div3 and DX50 once the avi is loaded, Xvid isn't in the list or are one of the things listed for xvid, kinda lost here lol, thanks again

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This one is strange, I started looking at my avi files and it was looking like the problem might have been the codec ID being DX50 but then I found this one that played fine, now I might have converted it to divx because some xvid files won't play on my divx plus player on the computer, but here is the file

General
Complete name : K:\Divx Movies K\Already Burned\7.Days.2010 cd2.divx
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 686 MiB
Duration : 55mn 28s
Overall bit rate : 1 730 Kbps
Writing library : Boilsoft Joiner build 2411/release

Video
ID : 0
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 55mn 28s
Bit rate : 1 400 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 3:2
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.169
Stream size : 556 MiB (81%)
Writing library : DivX 3013

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 55mn 28s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 320 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Video delay : 22ms
Stream size : 127 MiB (19%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 42 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms

[paglamon]

Well, it seems the files are playing ok randomly. Maybe the converter is to blame. I have NEVER failed with my conversions using Virtualdub/AVIDemux following this guideline:http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/ar...one_page1.html