Stand alone divx player won't play divx file.

rike · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 27

Hi!

I recently bought a stand-alone divx player and i cannot play a specific movie. The player shows the message "No Codec".

The video and audio codec information, shown by mplayer -identify or tcprobe are the same of other movies which play well on the player.

iamben · Apprentice Joined: 10 May 2004 Posts: 275

a lot of standalone players won't play divx/xvid that were encoded with qpel (quarterpixel something or other) or gmc (global motion compensation) enabled. i think avidemux can tell you if qpel was used in encoding, not sure about how to detect gmc.

rike · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 27

Thank you very much for your reply.

I used avidemux to get that information, as you suggested, but the movie wasn't encoded neither with Quarter Pixel nor with GMC. It has packed bitstream to yes, i don't know if that matters.

Comparing once again the info on this video with the ones of movies that plays well, i can't get the difference. It must be subtle...

rike · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 27

After some experiments reencoding the movie with different parameters, i found out that the problem was in the dimensions of the movie's frames.

Resizing the movie's frames to 640 (instead of 700) makes the stand-alone divx player read it.

All there is to know now is the limit for the movie's frames dimensions. I read the full specifications of the stand-alone player but i couldn't find anything about it.