Xvid issues

[mail4asim]

I have read in some forums that TVix has issues with Xvid. Can anyone confirm this please. I have a lot of Xvid movies, and it would be sad it TVix is unable to play them.

Thanks

Asim

[Kolyan2k]

Plays my xvids fine, but there are other problems though.

1. Some divxs do not play at all or have some soft of an error.
2. Some (or all) "Divx Audio Codec" movies do not have sound.
3. Unable to use with just USB power (for HD use).
4. After a while of use (not while watching a movie), the sound gets corrupted and the device must be restarted.
5. This really pissed me off. Some MP3s only play for first 30-40 seconds and then just stop for no reason.
And 6. I don't know if this is Tvix or Windows XP, but on my laptop i can't play divxs smoothly with USB 2.0 and on my desktop with USB 1.1 (which does play movies fine) Tvix Hard Drive keeps freezing or something and has to be turned off in order for system to function normally again.

[jbe4]

I have VERY frequent problems with (especially recent) Xvid files on my TVIX (1.7 firmware current, 300GB Maxtor). The only issues have been on xvid, which it recognizes and tries to play, but no audio and black screen with time count. Most older xvid files work fine, and all xvids are recognized and appear in the menu. On occasion it gives an audio error (something akin to "auido = 1", it says). Beyond that, its a champ. Super 1080i picture quality on my HDTV (as good or better than my HTPC/Radeon 9800 component video out using ffdshow and zoomplayer) and, other than xvid, pretty consistent file playback. I was pretty bummed when the new firmware came out and it was all related to jpeg slideshows and similar trash (non video) that I have zero interest in. No codec updates so far, and I fear that it will stay as it is due to the chipset in the box.

J.Edgar

[longinus]

2/3 of all my movies are in XviD.
I have NO problems at all, IF the xvid doesn't use QPEL and GMC.

QPEL gives error in the tvix manager... but GMC does not, and you can't really play it..

Anyway... a normal movie in XviD doesn't need this features to be of good quality (better tha Divx, that's for sure). So it will play back fine!

[longinus]

I was pretty bummed when the new firmware came out and it was all related to jpeg slideshows and similar trash (non video) that I have zero interest in. No codec updates so far, and I fear that it will stay as it is due to the chipset in the box.


Me too.. useless features... and they didn't even fix the subtitles problems I have (easyy thing to fix)... and I asked life 3 times.

The chipset surelly restrict the codec support. But I think they should fix stuff BEFORE add new ones... It's the basic programming rule.
I can name some bugs that still remains from the old 1.4 firmware.

[oneijack]

I'm glad its not just me having problems with subs. I got some great kung fu stuff in xvid and it looks awsome on my big screen but I can't get the subs to work :( Subs work fine in WMP.

[longinus]

I'm glad its not just me having problems with subs. I got some great kung fu stuff in xvid and it looks awsome on my big screen but I can't get the subs to work :( Subs work fine in WMP.

What kind of problems are you having? Subs not showing at all?? Tvix supports SMI officially.. But it plays fine SRT . If you have another type of subs (perhaps a vobsub type...ripped from dvd... if can see this if you have a file called xxx.idx with your xxx.sub (or xxx.rar) file.

My problem is that tvix can't display this, for instance: ça
It replaces it with a japonese character.

[Flashman]

Re-encoding the movie fixes all these problems. What I really would wish for is a better way to detect incompatible XVID. Like maybe a command like or small utility. The TVIX manager doesn't catch all the problems and checking manually is too time consuming.

[Flashman]

My own oversight. Just noticed that the TVIX Manager does tell you when a file is GMC encoded, it just doesn't label it as not being compatible. So just look for a file labeled incompatible or labeled GMC and re-encode it.