Yeah, well, good luck. Hasn't worked well for me.

Me neither! And I've tried a number of different ways to do so.

Instead, I've resorted to using Nero.

Hmmmm. No problems here. I went to DivX.com and installed the complete player/codec package. I can open DivX files on the timeline and i can render to DivX under Video for Windows / Custom.

DivX does evolve at a pretty rapid pace. It's possible you may be behind a revision or two on the codec pack. I've often had to download the most recent codec again for some new files even though i got the last version only a month ago or so.

Vegas will not allow these files to be drop on the timeline. If I click on the clip from the explorer, the file details say: Stream attributes could not be determined. If I happen to have the auto-preview feature on, Vegas will lock up.

I tried installing the latest codec batch and it still made no difference within Vegas.

Is there some sort of option setting required within Vegas for play/edit divx / xvid files?

I did nothing other than install the DivX player/codec bundle. The next time i started Vegas it was able to play DivX files.

Keep in mind that DivX is not a standard and there are several competing varieties. The files you are trying to open may be incompatible. Of course, this is one of the reasons that DivX is still not considered a very useful format.

All the files that I'm referring to, although they won't load into Vegas, play fine with my external Phillips DVD player which claims to be able to play Divx files.

I realise that there are many variations on the format, but oddly enough the Phillips unit does a great job at playing them.

That being said, that's why I can not figure out why I can't get Vegas to handle them, especially when other software programs have no problem either.

Confused.

Can you give us a short uploaded example of such a file which doesn't load in Vegas? It could be helpful if we can test it with same file on our own system.

I never had a real problem importing and editing DivX files in Vegas though sometimes, after I had installed some other codecs, it needed a reinstall of DivX or just a updating.

Marco

Any suggestion as to how I'd simply take a short piece of the file to use as an example? All the software that I've got seems to want to recode them and therefore really would not provide an exact example.

If you take the DivX encoding tool to reencode a small piece and you load that one into Vegas - does this work then? - If so it seems the original pieces you got before are some kind false encoded? If not it should be fine for testing on different systems like ours.

Marco

thank you

I use the VirtualDubMod app ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualdubmod ) to export the video into an AVI that I can edit in Vegas, and I use the GoldWave audio editor( http://www.goldwave.com/ ) to extract the audio track. Both of these apps support batch processing too. ( NOTE: You will need to have the proper CODECs installed on your system )

The VirtualDubMod is also a great DivX encoding app, that can do batch encoding too.

TD

Hi, chienworks
I bought Divxcreate (divx.com) DivxPro 6 appears in some of my converters but in Vegas / Render as windows avi / custom / i don't see anything about DVIX.
Some idea ?
Thanks in advance

In the Custom window under the Video tab pull down the Video format window. You should see DivX listed there.