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Express wrote on 3/29/2004, 6:54 AM
There are several 'flavor's of DivX - I am not intimately familiar with them.

I have, used many PAL DivX sources (I think 3, 4? and 5) to make NTSC DVD's. I honestly don't know what, if anything may have been different about the source files - they were downloads.

I do have DivX 5 installed on my machine.
ollle wrote on 3/29/2004, 6:57 AM
I use DivX 5.1.1 for encoding. These videos can't be read by Vegas. Holy s**t...

so long
oli
TheHappyFriar wrote on 3/29/2004, 7:10 AM
I don't think it's Divx exactly (although right before V4 came out, I e-mailed SoFo and that Vegas doesn't support Divx because it's a non-pro codec, the same thing that Adobe said about why mpeg-2's couldn't be loaded into Premiere 6 & earlier).

I belive it has to do with keyframes: Vegas uses keyframes to display the thumbnails. If it can't find a keyframe, the file won't load properly (not just divx, but mpg, wmv, etc). So, if you want Vegas to read Divx files, make sure they have EVERY frame as a keyframe.

That should work.
Jsnkc wrote on 3/29/2004, 8:03 AM
Not to mention the fact that you don't really want to edit with Divx files anyway due to the high compression of them.
ollle wrote on 3/29/2004, 8:08 AM
That's true. I didn't want to edit DivX. The videos are in their final format. I wanted to use the script from JR to snap some frames from the videos...

so long
oli
TVCmike wrote on 3/29/2004, 8:50 AM
If you're really hard up to deal with them, maybe transcode them to another format like DV using the free Panasonic DV CODEC or to HuffYUV, using VirtualDub. It's an intermediate step but it'd get you from A to B eventually.
erratic wrote on 3/29/2004, 9:06 AM
After installing the latest ffdshow build you should be able to open DivX and XviD files with Vegas. Works for me, but Vegas won't open AC3 or VBR MP3 audio (I mean VBR MP3 in a DivX avi). CBR MP3 works fine. YMMV.
http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040325.exe
ollle wrote on 3/29/2004, 9:21 AM
Tried it with the ffdshow-filter, but it didn't work. Thanks anyway!

so long
oli
erratic wrote on 3/29/2004, 9:27 AM
Did you enable DivX 5 decoding in ffdshow's VFW Configuration?
Start Menu -> ffdshow -> VFW Configuration -> Decoder tab -> Codecs -> enable DivX 5 by clicking on 'disabled' and selecting 'libavcodec'.
erratic wrote on 3/29/2004, 10:03 AM
I just downloaded this Michael Jackson video (Brace Yourself) in DivX 5.1.1 format and Vegas opens it just fine (including the audio) with the latest ffdshow build (2004-03-25) installed and configured to open DivX 5.
http://mjvideo.oyvindeid.com/
http://home.online.no/~oeyv-eid/video/MJVideo.OyvindEid.com-BraceYourself.avi (22 MB)
Cheesehole wrote on 3/29/2004, 10:47 AM
I don't have to install anything other than the DivX 5 Pro package. I use DivX5 on the Vegas timeline all the time - every day. It most definitely works and it works really good - no different from DV. You might have to use a high bitrate - I use 1Mb or above and pretty tight keyframe distance of not more than 1-2 seconds.
erratic wrote on 3/29/2004, 1:37 PM
To whom it may concern, there's a new ffdshow build available (just released).
http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/
http://athos.leffe.dnsalias.com/ffdshow-20040329.exe
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?&postid=466608#post466608
Main fix as far as Vegas is concerned: * Win9x-style install dir in registry (C:\Progra~1), so ffdshow shows up in VFW apps even under Winnt (nt/2k/xp/2k3) OS.