[luap82]

i am trying to watch some divx files on my comp but they play really really slow and choppy. i have the latest indeo codec from the apple website, windwos media player 6.3, and the divx codec. my computer is a DP450 and i am running 9.1.4. why is it all choppy, is there any way to get it to run smoothly? thanks.
-luAp

You need DivX Player 1.0b10. I think you can get it at http://www.divx.st/ but I'm not sure. Also, it doesn't play ALL DivX movies as there seem to be about a dozen different types! Lotsa luck.

[Tinkerbell]

The DiVX CODEC is quite intensive. I have had problems on PCs and Macs alike. Personally, I prefer Windows Media 8 CODECs over DiVX. I know, I know... But they look REALLY good.

If you have to play DiVX file, try cloing everything out, loading the DiVX QuickTime component, and playing it that way. It may work better than in Windows Media Player for Mac.

[stux]

The 3ivx codec runs much better on G4s than the DivX Player. Also, if you're using OSX the 3ivx codec is NATIVE and will use BOTH processors during playback.

Also the 3ivx codec scales with no performance penalty

Also the 3ivx codec works in millions of colours BETTER than in thousands of colours

Also the 3ivx codec is a quicktime codec

Also the 3ivx codec is being developed by a bunch of macintosh developers

Soooo, I'd suggest downloading the 3ivx codec from http://www.3ivx.com and then transcoding your DivX to 3ivx.

Just export the video track to 3ivx, then extract the audio track, add it to the 3ivx, and save self contained. Oila

If you have the personal 3ivx codec you can set the quality to 75% or so, and the bitrate to the same bitrate as the divx video track and get the same file size. If you aim for a 700MB file then you can burn it back to CD.

3ivx is fully cross platform too

Cool huh

[lucylawless]

Originally posted by stux:

Just export the video track to 3ivx, then extract the audio track, add it to the 3ivx, and save self contained. Oila

How do you add the video and audio back together? (3ivx video and mp3 audio, yes?)

[stux]

open the doctored divx in qt pro

open your 3ivx video in qt pro

select the divx window, choose extract tracks from the menu, select the audio track

select all,
copy
close

bring the 3ivx to the front

position the thumb at the beginning of the movie, press cmd-option-v or choose "Add" from the menu in QTPro 5

[lucylawless]

Originally posted by stux:
<STRONG>open the doctored divx in qt pro

open your 3ivx video in qt pro

select the divx window, choose extract tracks from the menu, select the audio track

select all,
copy
close

bring the 3ivx to the front

position the thumb at the beginning of the movie, press cmd-option-v or choose "Add" from the menu in QTPro 5</STRONG>

Thanks! Can you do this with MPEGs? (as the source?) I know there's something tricky about mpeg's audio...

with mpegs, you can do something like this to export them, but it is a little bit different. First, get Sparkle. Its an old app that is the basis for the Quicktime MPEG Extension. Good luck finding it, it might take an hour or two. In the Sparkle Folder, there will be an app called MPEGSplit (Warning, this app is not OS 9 friendly. It will work, but when it quits, you may get a positive numbered error [ie, the "good" kind). You need to drag the MPEG file onto it. It will take a long time, but in the end you'll get two files, one an MPEG audio stream (like and MP3), and one an MPEG video stream. You can tell the apart by the file extension. The video end in v, the audio ends in a. Then grab SoundApp. Its on all the Mac shareware and FTP sites (it's freeware). Now, open the MPEG audio stream with soundapp and export it as a AIFF or MooV. Now, open the MPEG video stream and AIFF/MooV in Quicktime Player/MoviePlayer. Copy the AIFF/MooV to the clipboard and paste it into the video. Tada, now you can export an (originally) muxed MPEG with its audio. Now, as a warning, MPEG Split is REALLY OLD. It will choke on many MPEG files that were porrly encoded, especially it the proper framerate is not specified (fairly common...). So good luck.

[stux]

You can use a program called bbDemux instead of MPEG split,

You can also use MPegger Drop Decoder instead of soundapp if you want.

Also, once you have your aiff, you can use iTunes to encode it to MP3 if thats what you want.

Then open it in QT and add it in the same way you would a divx extracted MP3.

Get the mentioned apps from versiontracker or macdvd.org