making sure that my xvid is divx compatible

basterd!! · Post by **basterd!!** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:43 am

to make sure that my xvid encode is divx compatible i just need to make sure the FourCC setting is set to dx50 right?

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Sat Feb 19, 2005 8:56 am

And:
- don't use Global Motion Compensation
- don't use Packed Bitstream if you've set max consecutive B-VOPs to 2 or more

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Sun Feb 20, 2005 4:49 am

Don't go changing fourCC's it's damn annoying when you're trying to troubleshoot and you don't know what it was encoded with.

If people want to watch XviD encoded videos just have them install XviD, it's light, it's free and it works fine when you've also got DivX installed.

To my knowledge the recent DivX codecs can sucessfully decode videos with the fourCC XVID anyway (there is even an option to allow it to decode XviD or not)

DivX 5.2 and higher now successfully decodes XviD including the multiple B frames and 3 warp point GMC.

While changing the fourCC is a good idea in theory, it would be better if everyone ditched DivX and used XviD.

And yes, I'm still pissed off at how they took a hack of Microsoft's MPEG 4 codec, added stuff, perhaps re-wrote it to avoid legal issues and turned it into shareware.