[Hörnchen]

Hi out there,
watching DivX on my PB 333 is impossible, its jumping from frame to frame. We all know. But, anyone can see them well? What machine do you have?
And (yes, shame, shame) what minimum PeeSee specs are necessary?

[ifirewire]

Originally posted by Hörnchen:
<STRONG>Hi out there,
watching DivX on my PB 333 is impossible, its jumping from frame to frame. We all know. But, anyone can see them well? What machine do you have?
And (yes, shame, shame) what minimum PeeSee specs are necessary?</STRONG>

the footage i get is ok, if even quite consistant, but i don't get any sound.

this does seem ridiculous that these files don't work on quicktime???

With regard to sound, most DivX files must be processed with DivX Doctor, which appears in the Movie menu of the Mac DivX Player. It will create a separate file with the sound in it and give you the option to name the file. This small file can then be double-clicked later and it will open the movie with the Mac DivX player. You can also drop this file on Quicktime player (but for this the DivX Player must be running) and display the movie with the Present Movie option in Quicktime. Lastly, you can transcode the movie by using the Export command in the Quicktime Player file menu and choosing a different format and/or a smaller resolution.
Unless you have a fast Mac it is unlikely that full screen movies will play smoothly. My 233 iMac gets bogged down by any movie larger than 320x240. If you have the knowledge and patience you can re-encode large screen divx movies into 320x240 using the Sorenson codec included in Quicktime or one of the newer codecs such as 3ivx or vp3. Be prepared to give up use of your computer for many, many hours, however.

[lucylawless]

Originally posted by &lt;Nap&gt;:
<STRONG>Be prepared to give up use of your computer for many, many hours, however.</STRONG>

that's why you do it in classic

Originally posted by Hornchen:
<STRONG>But, anyone can see them well? What machine do you have?
</STRONG>

I wouldn't say 'well', but I can watch a divx movie on my pismo 400mhz. Unless there's high action or color gradients.
this week on the plane I watched Finding Forrester. It was only 352x240 or something, but it played adequately except for the fast basketball scenes. And the colors thing is terrible; it's like it's only using 256 colors or something.
Anyway, the moral is yes, your hardware is just a little too slow for smooth motion. I can't say anything about picture quality, though

[Hörnchen]

Yes, I've done that allready, but encoding in other file types lasts too long. Even in a lower compressed mpeg format (I tried for example H263) it lasted a whole day to do that. And given that I normaly have one crash a day it will not do for me.
I would like to know: Can one whatch them on a Mac? Or is a Dual 800 MHz still to slow?

[anothermacguy]

I don't know when this left off, but I'm watching most of my Divx movies with no problems on my mac (imac DVSE400) at full screen in OSX within Quicktime, using divx for x, and the divx doctor from divx player beta 10.

What I do is open them in divxplayer b10 (classic), do the doctor, then open them in quicktime. It works great 90% of the time. My problem is what happens the other 10% of the time...when opening the mov file created by divx doctor, it only opens the audio in some movies (it doesn't error, saying it can't find the video resource, but it still doesn't display it).

If anyone has any ideas, I'd really like to know why this happens with some movies, and not others, and how to remedy this. Thanks

[King Chung Huang]

Originally posted by anothermacguy:
<STRONG>(snip)

My problem is what happens the other 10% of the time...when opening the mov file created by divx doctor, it only opens the audio in some movies (it doesn't error, saying it can't find the video resource, but it still doesn't display it).

If anyone has any ideas, I'd really like to know why this happens with some movies, and not others, and how to remedy this. Thanks </STRONG>

I've discovered that on movies where I get audio only (no evidence of video) on DivX Doctored movies occurs when the original (source) movie lacks the proper type code to identify it as an AVI. When I add that, either by adding .avi to the file name or using ResEdit, the resulting movies convert perfectly fine. Give that a try.

[Cipher13]

They work fine for me... though I've noticed some flaws in the codec... the refresh rate is really slow (you can see it during scene changes).

G4 400/128/9.04.