DVDmax question...

[greyfalco]

Hey all,

I bought a G450 etv a while ago, anyhow, I want to watch a divx movie (on my TV) while working on my computer. However, when a window covers up Media Player the movie on the the TV freezes. Is there anyway to keep the movie playing on the TV while a window is covering the media player?


-Gef.

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Thanks for the help, extended overlay worked like a charm. Does anyone know what the rest of this does? "Compensate Overscan", specifically?

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[Liquid Snake]

I'm not sure because I've only used DVDMax a few times, but I remember that this would happen if "Detect based on video window size" was checked in the DVDMax Options. Checking "Detect based on video source size" worked for me.

[prr]

Try Extended overlay mode of DivXG400.

[impact]

Yes, what he said. Download the dixg400 file an enable extended overlay support and it will work... most of the time...

[prr]

Most of the time?

[impact]

That's what my experince tells me.

BTW... loving the subs, perhaps a future version could implement .aqt file support?

[prr]

Do You have any special case when the problem appears?

May be contact in private?

[impact]

I personally don't think it's related to the divxg400 file, eventho it started appearing right after I installed it and frequently used the dvd max.

It always happened either right after booting into windows at the start of a movie or never and it was the generic "matrox" crash (garbled screens, moving white block instead of cursor, etc...).

I think it was caused by the card overheating (a combination of overclocking, inadequate fan and summer weather) + playing a lot of movies thus stressing the card, because I did took some precautions (mainly bigger fan and additional cold air intake) and haven't crashed for some time now.

[prr]

OK.
Could You tell me bit more about .aqt subtitles... What kind of file is it, where can I download some sample file/information about it/etc.?

[impact]

That could be a problem... the homepage is http://bealsoft.cjb.net/, however, the english part of the website doesn't have much information about the .aqt format (none in fact).

The format is really easy to understand tho. Each subtitle file is a text file in which there are three lines (a block) for each pair of subtitles, like this

-->> XXXXXXXXXXX
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB

the " XXXXXXXXXX" is frame index - a number that defines when is the block displayed

the "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" is the first (top) line
the "BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB" is the second (bottom) line

an empty block would look like this

-->> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

even empty lines are displayed, effectively erasing what was shown before them, so a .sub subtitle

{812}{969}This is line 1| this is line 2

would translate into .aqt as

-->>812
This is line 1
this is line 2
-->>969

it's quite simple, isn't it

If you have more questions, you might try and ask the author directly, his email is aberka@atlas.cz.. he might be able to give you proper english documentation + support and english version of his tool, the AQTitle, AQTool and AQTDirector which can be used to add subtitles to movied and to convert .sub to .aqt and vice versa,

[prr]

AqTitle support will be added to next DivXG400 version.
In future, feel free to use wish-link at DivXG400 homepage