Movie Dvd's

[PeterCH]

Actually, there are DVD's that hold 5 movies in a disc that can play in any DVD player..
They basically downloaded DIVX's and used to program to generate a menu etc.

So yeah, you can buy that DVD and it will play regardless if your DVD supports DIVX.

Source: I bought some

Once you put more than 2-3 hours as MPEG2 the quality degrades terribly,
while its possible to put 5 hours of MPEG2 video on a DVD9 or even DVD5
the quality is going to be terrible and you probably won't want to watch them that way. As a rule of thumb, one hour for DVD5 (one layer), 2 hours for DVD9 (two layers). One can always fit a bit more using Variable Bit Rate encoding with 2 passes but not too much (as said above). Also some DVD players have trouble reading low bitrate (and very high bitrate) sources.

 

[PeterCH]

i was just worried about spending R60 on a disc with 6 - 10 movies on and they not gonna work on anything i have at home.

If the disk is readable (not scratched, warped, melted or it hasn't degraded) every file format can be read - you just need to download the latest codec pack eg K-lite, CCCP, etc.

 

[waynegohl]

ok i think what i must do is buy one of the discs and see what happens. thanks for info.

 

[Genius.]

I disagree. Hardware DivX players are not always 100% compatible with the latest version of DivX. The best bet is to watch on a PC where you can download the latest codecs and read any file imaginable.

I bought my divx player 3 years ago. I currently have over 500 dvds. They all work absolutely perfect, never ever had a problem where my divx player never accepted the disk.

 

[PeterCH]

I bought my divx player 3 years ago. I currently have over 500 dvds. They all work absolutely perfect, never ever had a problem where my divx player never accepted the disk.

Are those DivX DVDs or ordinary MPEG2 DVDs you can buy at PnP, CNA,
Musica?

 

[Genius.]

Divx Dvd's mostly more than half are Xvid. The ordinary ones work fine as well.

 

[PeterCH]

Divx Dvd's mostly more than half are Xvid. The ordinary ones work fine as well.

My experience is that embedded systems don't work as well usually
as customizable (upgradeable) ones. I'm sure the DivX file will
play most of the time in a dedicated player, but I wouldn't be a 100% rate, while
with downloadable codecs/drivers the 100% rate is possible.

 

[Genius.]

My experience is that embedded systems don't work as well usually
as customizable (upgradeable) ones. I'm sure the DivX file will
play most of the time in a dedicated player, but I wouldn't be a 100% rate, while
with downloadable codecs/drivers the 100% rate is possible.

Well iv been downloading for yonk years. Never once did my trusted divx player ever give me problems. I just got fedup of keeping to watch movies on my pc.

 

[Jabberwocky]

just download super©, it converts anything to anything(even lets you choose the audio codec)

 

[dlk001]

My experience is that embedded systems don't work as well usually
as customizable (upgradeable) ones. I'm sure the DivX file will
play most of the time in a dedicated player, but I wouldn't be a 100% rate, while
with downloadable codecs/drivers the 100% rate is possible.

Its my experience too. While almost all DivX files played on my DVD DivX Players and Archos Portable Video player, some files will flicker and some will play with no audio.

For convenience, a DivX DVD Player is better than PC. Personally, I prefer the PC approach and use Vista Media Center.

 

[GTi]

Its my experience too. While almost all DivX files played on my DVD DivX Players and Archos Portable Video player, some files will flicker and some will play with no audio.

For convenience, a DivX DVD Player is better than PC. Personally, I prefer the PC approach and use Vista Media Center.

But not if you have a 50" LCD, the DivX Player will come in handy then.

 

[LazyLion]

My Mvix player plays 99% of them...

My other DVD players with DivX capability plays about 80% of them.

Those that don't play on there.... I just watch them on the computer.