problem playing divx

[blairh]

i have quite a few divx movies on my A2, all of which play fine except for one. it's weird, because i ripped them all myself in exactly the same way. most are ~700mb, and the one that i'm having trouble with is 1.4gb.. could this be an issue? is there any known problems for the A2 playing large files?

basically the movie starts fine, gets to 47:07 and skips to the next movie, even though it says it's only half way through that one.

any ideas? thanks guys

[MCSmarties]

Wow, that sounds weird for sure!

Well, AFAIK the Cowon A2 does not have any particular limitations to play large files (except that it takes longer to load of course).
I have watched several mini-series (around 1.3 GB in size) and LOTR EE (about 1.5 - 1.7 GB each) and never had problems.
Note that I have not managed to merge all three LOTR EE together into one file! Guess that's a limitation of VirtualDubMod though.

My guess is that something went wrong when you ripped your DVD (or rather, when you encoded it).
Just a question, why is your file much larger? Did you merge two movies together?
Was it a "flipper disk"? These can be a little tricky to rip and merge properly, search doom9.net for "flipper" to gain some insight on that topic.

From your message I gather that 47:07 was around the middle of the movie. If that's the case, is there a particular reason why you encoded it with an obviously different bitrate?

If you didn't rip and encode yourself after all, I suggest running GSpot 2.52b on the file. See if there is anything weird in the codecs used.

Hope this helps, good luck.

[eric3a]

There must be the usual FAT 32 2GB limitation... I've never hit it but it must be there.
Eric

[jontupper]

There must be the usual FAT 32 2GB limitation... I've never hit it but it must be there.
Eric

FAT = 2gb
FAT32 = 4gb

[eric3a]

Yes correct, 4GB of course.
Eric

[buddywoof]

i have a sort of similar problem. I've encoded many movies using DivX Create, and one particular movie (a concert actually), I can fast forward to a certain point in the video and not any further. To get to a a scene beyond that point, I need to actually watch it in real time. Kinda sucks. When I play the same file on my PC or my wifes Archos AV500, I can fast forward beyond that point without a problem.

[Aikiwoce]

i have a sort of similar problem. I've encoded many movies using DivX Create, and one particular movie (a concert actually), I can fast forward to a certain point in the video and not any further. To get to a a scene beyond that point, I need to actually watch it in real time. Kinda sucks. When I play the same file on my PC or my wifes Archos AV500, I can fast forward beyond that point without a problem.

Could you run GSpot Codec Information Appliance (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) on your troublesome video, and post a screenshot (alt+printscreen) of it's window?

[Krelyan]

I have a 1.4 GB XviD movie on my player. I haven't noticed any problems.

[blairh]

i will try re-encoding it, and see if it works then. just seems really strange that it works fine on my mac, but won't play on the a2 - even when all of the others ripped at the same settings work fine. thanks for the suggestions =)

[sabre0]

It must be a index issue...
I suggest you using virtualdub : open the video with it and save in a new file using direct stream input (no reencoding). It takes few minutes.

[MCSmarties]

There must be the usual FAT 32 2GB limitation... I've never hit it but it must be there.
Eric
Not sure if you are referring to the post from blairh or me. If it's the former: his file isn't anywhere near the 4GB limit.
If it's me: I have not been able to make that huge file even on my computer and my drive is NTFS so the FAT32 limit shouldn'[t apply.
(Just to clarify that I wrote that as some aside information, has nothing to do with my Cowon A2)

[buddywoof]

Could you run GSpot Codec Information Appliance (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/) on your troublesome video, and post a screenshot (alt+printscreen) of it's window?



here ya go

[MCSmarties]

buddywoof: This version of GSpot doesn't give enough information.
You should use the latest version, 2.52b (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/gspot252dl.html) (yes, BETA!)
It will return much more information about your file, such as whether GMC and QPel were used.

[Aikiwoce]

buddywoof: This version of GSpot doesn't give enough information.
You should use the latest version, 2.52b (http://www.headbands.com/gspot/gspot252dl.html) (yes, BETA!)
It will return much more information about your file, such as whether GMC and QPel were used.

Yeah I meant that one, I should have been more specific.

[kirslew]

I have a similar problem. I have encoded several DVD's using Nero 6 DVD to mp4 and then Jet Audio for mp4 to avi. All play fine until they reach 1:27:14 and then the video will play the same audio and video frame over and over. I have used high quality settings (1500kbps +) and all files are approx 1.4g in size. This has happened on 9 files. One file is only 1:27:10 in length and no problem. Another file I encoded with lesser quality (801kbps) and it plays fine. Can it be a problem with the higher bitrates? Any help will be appreciated!

[Aikiwoce]

I have a similar problem. I have encoded several DVD's using Nero 6 DVD to mp4 and then Jet Audio for mp4 to avi. All play fine until they reach 1:27:14 and then the video will play the same audio and video frame over and over. I have used high quality settings (1500kbps +) and all files are approx 1.4g in size. This has happened on 9 files. One file is only 1:27:10 in length and no problem. Another file I encoded with lesser quality (801kbps) and it plays fine. Can it be a problem with the higher bitrates? Any help will be appreciated!

People aren't going to help you if post the same reply multiple times.

[kirslew]

I opened the video with virtualdub and saved it as new file using direct stream copy and it plays fine. I guess it was an index problem. Thanks sabre0!

[evgesha2jz-ge]

i have the same problem with fast forwarding, it hangs on 1h7m mark, movie is total of 2h20m
i tried direct stream copy but that didnt solve the problem, any other sugestions??
thanks

[mssx]

i had the tokyo drift movie downloaded from the internet. it was a divx file around 800 megs and it stopped forwarding problem after the 1 hr 13 min mark.re-encoded the file and the problem was solved. i have had no problems whatsoever with files originally encoded by myself.

[evgesha2jz-ge]

the original was PSP formated .mp4
i converted it using mp4 to AVI converter.

what saftware did you use to re-encode??

[mirak]

Hi guys here is the problem I am having. I ahve the xvid file and it's a avi file but when played using A2 it says codec not supported. I am not sure why that is and I am adding a pic from G-spot to verify the info of the file. I dont know what to do and I hate converting as it takes hours to convert one movie. I tried opening this same movie using virtualdub but it wont let me open the file.

[img=http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8053/gspotrm7.th.png] (http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gspotrm7.png)
If you need more info please let me know.

Thank you.

[neoufo51]

Hi guys here is the problem I am having. I ahve the xvid file and it's a avi file but when played using A2 it says codec not supported. I am not sure why that is and I am adding a pic from G-spot to verify the info of the file. I dont know what to do and I hate converting as it takes hours to convert one movie. I tried opening this same movie using virtualdub but it wont let me open the file.

[img=http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/8053/gspotrm7.th.png] (http://img509.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gspotrm7.png)
If you need more info please let me know.

Thank you.
The A2 does not support GMC on Xvid files so you will have to convert it using a simple fast recompress with Virtualdub. Make sure to download the latest version of the Xvid encoder before you do this.

http://esby.free.fr/CelticDruid/mirror/XviD/

[mirak]

so from that link ytou provided I downloaded the 1.03 xvid which seems to be the latest one. I will play around with that program as I dont know what to do yet or how to use it yet so will give it a try.

Thanks for your input. Also, how long will the process take?

[neoufo51]

Actually the 1.1 is the latest. Should take about about an hour with a 3ghz PC?

[MCSmarties]

Depends whether you use one pass or two pass encoding.

One pass usually takes me 50min - 90min, 2 pass can take over 3 hours
(greatly depends on whether you use filters)