divx issues

Fong

Newbie Joined: Apr 21, 2007 23:59 Messages: 3 Offline

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Aug 19, 2009 14:21

Wasn't too sure if I should e-mail cyberlink or just post here, but here it goes. I updated from power director 7 ultra to 8 yesterday; really no issues, and I'm liking many of the new features.

Also, the speed at which it produces clips is great IMO.

However, I'm having issues producing a divx (6.8.5) avi. I produced a 1-minute video and it spat back a file over 1 GB (yes, GB) in size. I then did some experiments, and no matter what I changed in the codec settings or profile settings, files of the exact same size were being produced.

This was a non-issue in version 7, and I refuse to believe the divx codec is suddenly just not working. As the only change I made was in power director, it makes sense to me that the fault lies there somewhere.

I hope Cyberlink comes out with an update / patch, as like I mentioned before, I DO like the program as a whole despite this snafu.

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Martin

Newbie Joined: Aug 19, 2009 06:20 Messages: 9 Offline

Aug 23, 2009 06:25

Hi. Same for me. PD8 crash every time I try to encode a MP4 video in Divx 6.8.5. Sometimes it goes to 2% or 20% but then it crashes. Then PD8 crashes with an error message or it just disappear. cheers!

vn800rider

Senior Contributor Location: Darwen, UK Joined: May 15, 2008 04:32 Messages: 1949 Offline

Aug 23, 2009 11:53

Hi Martin, Fong

Some time ago I did a bit of work with PD7 and DivX, so, following your post, I've just done a trial render in PD8. I've used an existing project and DivX 6.8.5 Pro trial. My original (older) pro is on another hard drive so...

.pds project was a mix of .MP4, .asf, .mpg and audio, titles etc.
running time 31:41
Original project was rendered to 720p .mpg
file size 4.33Gb

final DivX file size 579Mb

DivX MediaInfo
General
Complete name : D:\cyberlink testing\divx test.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 579 MiB
Duration : 31mn 41s
Overall bit rate : 2 555 Kbps

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)
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : DX50
Codec ID/Hint : DivX 5
Duration : 31mn 41s
Bit rate : 2 495 Kbps
Width : 1 280 pixels
Height : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.108
Stream size : 566 MiB (98%)
Writing library : DivX 6.8.5

Audio
ID : 1
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Layer 3
Codec ID : 55
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 31mn 41s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 56.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 24.0 KHz
Resolution : 16 bits
Stream size : 12.7 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration : 1000 ms (24.99 video frames)

Rendering time 4hrs 44mins
No issues observed

Playback seems fine in DivX player and MPC home cinema.

I run an older system which will affect the render time :-
XP MCE SP3
Athlone 64X2 4600+ 2.4GHz 3GB RAM Radeon X1600 SATA 1x 500GB 1x 320GB 1x160GB 3 external USb drives

So with these settings DivX works OK. Don't know why your two installations crash - maybe you can post more info?

Cheers
Adrian

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Martin

Newbie Joined: Aug 19, 2009 06:20 Messages: 9 Offline

Aug 23, 2009 21:48

Hi Adrian,
thank you so much for testing it! Now I am pretty sure that it has to be something wrong with my configuration.
I deinstalled all the divx,coreavc,mkv and PD8 stuff including any subfolders left and will install it all again and see if it helps. The divx converter works great but only with PD8 it crashes. That is really frustrating... but thanks again!

Cheers, Martin

Martin

Newbie Joined: Aug 19, 2009 06:20 Messages: 9 Offline

Aug 27, 2009 20:40

I have just tested the PD8 Version with Divx 6.8.5 on my laptop. The same crash as on my desktop computer. Due to the completely different hardware and software on my laptop, except Kaspersky there must be an issue with in PD8 or Divx 6.8.5.

I have only successed with two divx projects and the other tries crashed as well.

Cheers!
Maritn


Filename	error.jpg	Download
Description	That is the message I get most of the time when I click on (start encoding) in PD8. It is german, but the memory error looks similar to the english one.
Filesize	14 Kbytes
Downloaded:	160 time(s)

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