Yamada DIVX/dvd player :-)

[Mingon]

Just received a Yamada dvx-6100 (umax) which plays dvd's, divx's (3.x-5.x) and mp3's. So far it is Excellent. I only paid £60 for it which is a bargain for UK shops as the box was damaged and thats in the bin now!

So far I have tried all of the 4 films I encoded in Dr DIVX and despite the sound being slightly low (fixed by installing / configuring the filter from sourceforge) everything is running really well. All of my films were encoded as high quality large files (normal size circa 1gb) and the player has no problems with Datawrite dvd-r's. I chucked each dvd into seperate folder (not acutally needed) and it worked a treat.

So now I have just encoded the extended versions of two towers and fellowship of the ring to put onto one disk, next school holiday I will watch them all in one go!

As a side not using dr divx 1.04 on my dual AMD (2 x 2500+@2.226) I am getting 40fps encoding anyone get any better?
Mind you thats actually 2 x 40fps as I can run two lots of dr divx and assign them to cpu 0 and cpu 1 (mind you at circa 160watts of heat my machine is on struggling to keep the processors below 55c)

Anyway anyone tried any of the other makes of divx players such as the Kiss players?

 

[WarpSpeed]

Sounds terrific; I've been looking forward to a DivX-capable set-top player. I can't find any more information on the dvx-6100; Yamaha doesn't even seem to have the model on their site. Can you point me to where I can look?

It looks like you have a very fast platform for DivX encoding. With a P4-2.6 running at about 3.5GHz on Win2K with Hyperthreading enabled, I can encode one stream of 480x320 at around 60fps. Hyperthreading doesn't help me encode a single stream any faster, but it certainly helps a lot when I do two or three similtaneously. At what resolution do you encode? What other parameters do you use?
Thanks

 

[Mingon]

amazon sell them for £80. I encode at 704*288 which is the top setting that Dr divx allows. The quality that way is almost as good as DVD with only th occasional blockiness.

 

[WarpSpeed]

Thanks for the address. We probably won't see those for sale in the US, but I really would like to have one. Fortunately, I've got a friend in the UK . . . . 704x288; I think I'll give it a try.