Divx or Xvid.. what do you suggest?

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I have a home movie encoded in DIVX 5.0 with 128K mp3, and I want to be able to play it on a K62 500 But all I get is jerkyness. How can I re-encode it to that it will play smothely on this machine. I have tried the ffdshow filter which helped a little but still not watchable. would encoding in Xvid help. or perhaps in DIVX 3.11.

Any help appreciated.

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[audiyoda]

I've got to say I am very impressed with XviD -- small, compact codec with great compression and high quality. I don't know if it will help you in this case -- any time you use a high compression codec your asking the CPU to do a lot of work -- that's why your having problems now.

I'd re-encode using something basic like MPEG-1 or AVI. The file size will be much larger, but there will be less strain on the CPU and thus less video studder.

-Craig

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Thanks audiyoda, I have encoded it in MPEG-1 356x288 24fps. But my k62 will not play it, WMP7.1 tries to download a codec for it but says that it could not find a suitable one. How could this be it is just a simple MPEG. I have tried different players but no go. I have also installed an MPEG-1 Codec but still no go. I cant understand as it works fine on my duron.

any suggestions as to why this might be?

Thanks

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[audiyoda]

Interesting -- WMP 7 should have MPEG-1 resident. What MPEG codec did you use? If you're not sure, I've attached a .zip file with a program called gspot -- it can detect just about any codec on a video file. It will tell you if the codec is resident on your system as well. So if it's not on the K62 system you can try and find it and put it there manually. And I wouldn't blame WMP7 for not finding it when it trys to d/l it -- the M$ codec library is pretty small.

-Craig

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I get two different outputs from the systems

screenshots attached

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and the k62....

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And it also listed on the K62 as having the MPEG-1 codec.

[audiyoda]

Does it show the K62 as having a MPEG-2 layer? because according to both attachments, the file is encoded with Ravicent Cinemaster DS (DirectShow) A/V codec using an MPEG-2 splitter.

Regardless of the file itself being MPEG-1 or MPEG-2, the splitter is the problem in this case and that requires an MPEG-2 codec.

-Craig

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I have DL mpeg2 codec and it is now working.

Thanks for the help Audiyoda.

[audiyoda]

No problem.

-Craig