DiVx Video Clip: When playing, freezes at a certain point. Sound continues to play, but picture is frozen.. How fix?

[WayneTeK]

I"m trying to play a divx movie but when i'm watching it, always at this certain point, it freezes. I mean, the picture freezes and the sound continues to play. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?

 

[rudeguy]

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by the damn dvd you pirate
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update your codecs

 

[WayneTeK]

Originally posted by: rudeguy
[riaa]
by the damn dvd you pirate
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update your codecs

huh???

 

[HiTek21]

whenever that happened to me i just fast fowarded a little and it worked fine.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Try downloading the latest ffdshow and AC3Filter codec packs, those tend to play most movies just fine. Unless there is an error in the movie itself of course.

 

[LS20]

yeah try to FF it... most likely encoding problem or ur hardware sux but im betting its the former

 

[Shooters]

Most likely not a codec issue. The person who encoded it probably just screwed up; it happens pretty often. Try re-ecoding it in VirtualDub. If the program gives you an error in the middle then the best solution is to just set VirtualDub to encode up to the error, then skip that keyframe, and then do another encode from there to the end. Then join the two segments back together.

 

[WayneTeK]

Originally posted by: LS20
yeah try to FF it... most likely encoding problem or ur hardware sux but im betting its the former

i think an error happened when encoding the movie...

and even if i skip forward, only sound plays.. the picture is still frozen... so my theory: the movie was ENCODED incorrectly.

 

[WayneTeK]

Originally posted by: Shooters
Most likely not a codec issue. The person who encoded it probably just screwed up; it happens pretty often. Try re-ecoding it in VirtualDub. If the program gives you an error in the middle then the best solution is to just set VirtualDub to encode up to the error, then skip that keyframe, and then do another encode from there to the end. Then join the two segments back together.

that sounds soo tedious...

aren't there programs out there that does a scan of the movie itself to see if it is fine or not? Like Dr. Divx?

 

[Shooters]

It actually doesn't take that long at all if you know what you're doing. Now that I think about it, you don't even have to re-encode. You can just use the direct stream copy option in VirtualDub to make two segments (once you find out where the problematic part is) then join them back together. I've never used Dr. DivX so I have no idea what it does.

 

[SunnyD]

I've encountered this with several movies that I've... uhh ... "borrowed". One in particular caught my attention, because I lost my broadband with 26meg left in the second disc. Since I was going to be without net for a while, I watched it anyway. I had 2 substantial "white-space-gaps" but sound was unaffected. Fast forwarding to the end of the whitespace got it back, if I played thru the gap, I'd lose lipsync.

Recently I got dialup until broadband arrives, and the whitespace in the clips corresponds to the remaining segments of the file to be downloaded yet.

Basically, what you're looking at is corrupted data in the movie. It essentially means the same thing, except in a more permanent fashion of what I encountered.

 

[skace]

You want divx fix. It removes the contents or whatever it is called and recreates it. Basically you probably have a corrupt file with several bad frames and when it hits those it stops until you move past them. divx fix cuts these bad frames out of the sequence and usually you cannot tell.

 

[BennyD]

i had this exact same problem, just get the ffdshow thingy, install it then go to it's configuration (start menu) and select all movie types that are freezing (divx/xvid ect)

fixed it for me

 

[WayneTeK]

Originally posted by: BennyD
i had this exact same problem, just get the ffdshow thingy, install it then go to it's configuration (start menu) and select all movie types that are freezing (divx/xvid ect)

fixed it for me

why does this happen in the first place? I mean, why does it hiccup? IS it because their computer couldn't handle the encoding?

 

[BennyD]

no idea why it happens, i think it might be an incompatibility between the default codecs and the divx/nemo ones

 

[sygyzy]

Ahh the future of IC at UCSB!

 

[WayneTeK]

Originally posted by: sygyzy
Ahh the future of IC at UCSB!

yes!

 

[WayneTeK]

Holy crap! It worked!!!

downloading the FF program fixed it!

Since this is a codec, i don't have to download NIMO codec in conjunction with this FF program right?

FF is a codec itself?

Maaan.. this program is awesome! In my opinion, the best codec i've used so far!