DiVX and Vegas Video 2.0b

Fiston wrote on 4/11/2002, 8:43 AM

Hi Guys,

I've been using vegas video for over a year now ... and I must say "I love it".

This is the first time that I have a real problem.

I use Vegas to edit and render all types of video to a DiVX file, which is then used as an inputfile for our streaming-cluster (3 Computers and an archive)

I've updates the Divx Codec to 5.0.1... and I works Buggy ! Vegas Crashes (or the codec crashes) ... If it doesn't crash, I get a clean movie in WMP7. But I cannot import it again in VV2 nor in my conversion cluster (Cleaner) .. audio but no video ...

Is there anyone who has tried this before ???

PLEASE LET ME KNOW ...

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 4/11/2002, 9:40 AM

DivX is, to put it mildly, unstable. With so many poorly defined versions of the codec floating around, there's no guarantees it will work anywhere. Since you're basically re-encoding with your streaming cluster anyway, is there a reason you chose DivX? You would probably get better and faster results using a native DV .avi format instead. True, the files will be bigger, but since you're just passing them off to the cluster the size shouldn't matter.

Erk wrote on 4/11/2002, 10:42 AM

Chienworks, I'm curious. How is DivX unstable? Do you mean that the encoding process itself is inconsistent or buggy, or do you mean that various versions out there complicate playback? Maybe both?

Ted_H wrote on 4/11/2002, 12:45 PM

This is our official DivX statement:

"Sonic Foundry does not officially support any version of the DivX codec. However, since DivX is a Directshow codec, it may show up in the render as dialogue box as a subset of the .avi codec in any Sonic Foundry product that can render .avi files."

Since DivX is not supported, we cannot guarantee results.

Ted