[dvd::rip] Re: dvd::rip, xvid, compatibility issues, and multiple audio

On Tue Aug 16, 2005 at 10:55:30AM -0400, Kimberly Lazarski wrote:

> First problem: 
> -------------
> I have a Philips DVP642/37 (firmware rev 37) DVD player and the files
> are detected as mpg4 however when I attempt to play them the DVD skips
> through the video, never displaying the video but increments the time
> counter display by leaps and bounds. I have confirmed the player does
> play xvid .avi files because I have downloaded television shows and
> played them on the DVD player without problems. What am I doing wrong? I
> know this is a PEBCAK issue because I can play xvid files others have
> encoded with no problems.  Also: my PPC and laptop can both play the
> problematic xvid files just fine.
> 
XviD is an MPEG-4 compliant codec - MPEG-4 covers a range of options
though, many of which are not supported by hardware players.  I'd
recommend disabling B-Frames and qpel for starters (using xvid4conf) -
searching the XviD and transcode mailing lists will probably give you
more info on which features are supported by most players.

> Second problem:
> --------------
> I have been trying to encode multiple tracks into an xvid file but it
> keeps failing (see dvd::rip messages below). I have also tried the divx
> codec with similar results. Is encoding an xvid-encoded AVI file with
> multiple audio tracks possible? Is this ONLY an ogg/ogm feature? (if it
> is restricted to ogg/ogm: bummer! Neither my PocketPC nor DVD player can
> play ogg/ogm video files) 
> 
AVI files can have multiple audio tracks - I've never tried doing this
with dvd::rip though.  Which codec (xvid/divx/etc) is used is irrelevant
in this respect.

Cheers,
        Robin

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