Codec helps please.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 12-22-2008, 06:43 AM

Alright. I've been trying to burn a video I made onto a DVD to play on the DivX player at home for the past few hours, but I've failed to do this successfully because it keep saying "Cannot read this title".

At first, I have rendered video as .wmv in Sony Vegas. I realise that the player can't read .wmv, so using Super C converter, I convered my .wmv file to .avi. I've tried using MPG-2, MPG-4, DivX and XviD codecs but NONE of them worked!

It is annoying me to BITS now. I'm starting to wonder if it's really a codec problem? I've burnt episodes of anime and things onto DVDs as a data disc, and they played fine on the player, so I know they can read .avi files for sure.

If anyone has any idea... any help/suggestions would be appreciated. I tried googling but haven't found an appropriate solution yet.

I am thinking if I have to render it from Sony Vegas again, but if I render from Sony Vegas then it'll take another two hours+, and avi files are always huge from vegas.

The resolution I'm saving the video as is at 1440x810 pixels (16:9) so it looks proportional on the plasma TV. I notice that when converting to avi using SuperC, it changes it to 1440x816 itself. But that 6 pixels can't possibly be the problem, right? (it should only look a little less proportional or something.. not render it unplayable).

I could have done this by burning it as a Video CD so that it can be played on any player, but Nero Express automatically reduces the resolution down to 320x240 (I think) and that's an awfully small size and looks kinda blurry (and I'm real picky for quality ><).... BUT I'm wondering why it reduces down to 4:3 ratio, yet it doesn't look weird on the plasma TV when my original file was set at 16:9 ratio?

Edit: Alright, I guess I'm going to have to try and find a program to convert the file into DVD-readable.

**Hraesvelg** · 12-22-2008, 07:12 AM

Video conversion seems to be more art than science. I use this and haven't had problems with my DivX player:

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 12-22-2008, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by Hraesvelg

Video conversion seems to be more art than science. I use this and haven't had problems with my DivX player:

http://www.erightsoft.net/SUPER.html

I'm using the same program to convert my stuff, but when you say DivX player, do you mean the one on your comp or one for your TV? o:

**Hraesvelg** · 12-22-2008, 09:44 AM

The one on my TV. Of course, I haven't used the widescreen aspect ratio for that. That might be your problem. For some reason I was thinking you had said you used Vegas to convert everything. I must have glossed over the bits where you mentioned SuperC.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 12-22-2008, 10:10 AM

Really? Resolution would be a problem? =[ I thought, that if anything, it'll just look funny/stretched on the screen.... D: -siGh-

**Hraesvelg** · 12-22-2008, 10:26 AM

Isn't there a way to have Vegas just output the file into the proper codec? I've never used it before, so I'm completely unfamiliar with what it will do.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 12-22-2008, 10:26 PM

Hm I haven't mucked around with it yet from vegas.. because when I save stuff into .avi, it usually comes out REALLY big.. once I rendered a umm 20-30 sec video as .avi from vegas and it came out as 1gig+. o-o"

Though I wonder if divx players only play .avi?

Well sooner or later I'll have to render again from vegas so I guess I'll have a look then. But.. 2 hours... -cries-

Pritcher · 12-23-2008, 12:36 AM

For the giant filesizes from Vegas it sounds like you're rendering an uncompressed .avi, that's why it's so huge. That'd be my guess anyway. Are you sure you've tried divx/xvid encoded .avi's? I think they should play, but I've never actually used a divx player. Drop your video file into GSpot and see what it says there.

When I make dvds I usually use a program called ConvertXtoDVD. It's not free, but it's a really great piece of software in my opinion. That isn't going to make it a divx thing though. It takes whatever you put in, (it recognizes most codecs and containers), and just converts it to a standard dvd compatible mpeg2. I don't know if that will work on a pure divx player, (do they make those anymore?), but if it's a divx compatible DVD player it should work.

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 12-23-2008, 04:42 AM

Originally Posted by Pritcher

For the giant filesizes from Vegas it sounds like you're rendering an uncompressed .avi, that's why it's so huge. That'd be my guess anyway. Are you sure you've tried divx/xvid encoded .avi's? I think they should play, but I've never actually used a divx player. Drop your video file into GSpot and see what it says there.

When I make dvds I usually use a program called ConvertXtoDVD. It's not free, but it's a really great piece of software in my opinion. That isn't going to make it a divx thing though. It takes whatever you put in, (it recognizes most codecs and containers), and just converts it to a standard dvd compatible mpeg2. I don't know if that will work on a pure divx player, (do they make those anymore?), but if it's a divx compatible DVD player it should work.

Yeah, I did it uncompressed at first. Earlier today I tried it with xvid codec though, and it was a bit smaller but the quality was horrifying for some reason. I was halfway through divx codec when I got fed up with the rendering process (since I can't do anything else on my comp while it's rendering.. and it takes 2 hours =.=). I just tried the codec thing but I'm not sure what I'm looking for? o:

But I did look at the ConvertXProgram. I read that it'll have a watermark on it if I'm using the trial version and I have yet....... to find a way around that /cough. But I guess I'll have to try that program cos I read somewhere that it's good.

Thanks for the help, JT/Pritcher!

**Belaslav** · 12-23-2008, 05:26 AM

If you're still looking for codecs, I heard that CCCP has a lot of those.

(Combined Community Codec Packs, not USSR lol)