DivX Playback woes

[Topha]

Some of my DivX files won't work. They play the first few frames (usually up to the company logo), and then stop. Sound still plays, but the picture just stays the same, even if I try to jump forward

This happens with bsplayer. The DivX Player 2.1 gives me following message:

"This file cannot be opened

StremSourceFilter::seekFromBeginning(0) out of readLimit range:-1"


Is there any way to fix this, or are the files lost?

[az]

Try playing them in VirtualDub for a dirty workaround until you can fix the files (which you can do with VD, of course).

AZ

[Indiana]

Updating to the newest DivX (5.05) helped me with one file where otherwise the video suddenly would stop at playback - while the sound continued.

[Kooldino]

Yeah, what Indiana said.

[Rob(QG)]

Latest alpha build of ffdshow has played everything I have thrown at it so far, with no problems.

[Gurm]

Hey Rob,

Is the latest version of ffdshow really from... last June?

- Gurm

[Topha]

I do have 5.05

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by Gurm
Is the latest version of ffdshow really from... last June?

Latest stable, yes it looks like last june. Latest alpha is from late last month, and has given me no trouble for the little I've used it. FFMPEG (the codec it's based on) seems to be in a permanent state of flux, so I imagine stable releases are few and far between.

[Lucid]

ffdshow really is worth a try; works very well.

[Faramir1966]

Or you can try this : AVIpreview

Works very good for me.

[Rob(QG)]

Hey Rob,

Is the latest version of ffdshow really from... last June?

- Gurm

Yeah, dunno why they don't call one of the alphas a stable...

You need later than the stable release to support the latest Xvids.

[KeiFront]

Topha, tryout gspot it can determine which codec is needed.

And updating/reinstalling to the newest DivX (5.05), like Indiana said should fix the problem.
I experienced the same problem a few weeks ago with a DivX movie and updating to DivX 5.05 fixed the problem.

[Gurm]

divx is CRAP software. It's so buggy as to make me weep. Only problem is that xvid is worse. Bleh.

divx is a fine codec, but the people at www.divx.com couldn't code their way out of a wet paper sack.

- Gurm

[Indiana]

Sorry to disagree...
But IMO DivX is GREAT software overall with still some minor flaws.

[Gurm]

You honestly think that the high-cpu-usage bloatware from DIVX Networks is GOOD software?

Have you tried their encoder?

- Gurm