DivX MPEG-4 Version 5 does not play in VLC

noknow · Postby **noknow** » 28 Jul 2006 14:07

I have two .avi files for which Nautilus claims they are DivX MPEG-4 Version 5 files.

When I try to play the file I get an image which can be compared best with the image you get when you try to watch a scrambled movie channel. '
Mplayer plays it fine. But the performance of mplayer on my machine is so bad I can't watch full screen.

Im using version 0.8.5 and ffmpeg 4.9.6

When I open the file in VLC and look at the Stram and Media info I get:
Code: XVID. Res: 520x274 frame rate: 25.

In the messages window I get constant PTS out of range en resampling messages.

What can this be?

Thank you,

Remco

Postby DJ » 28 Jul 2006 19:48

XviD is NOT DivX! There are no known problems with either of the formats. You can look at Messages as this will give some indication of the problem. You might also look at your Task Manager in performance for CPU usage.

noknow · Postby **noknow** » 28 Jul 2006 23:22

Hello,

I know XVID and DIVX are two seperate things. That's why I mentioned this.
I forgot to say that I'm running SUSE 10.1 so I don't have a task manager. I wouldn't know how to view utilisation.
I don't think that's the problem though, since mplayer is able to play the files fine on the same machine, same OS.

Teetrinker · Postby **Teetrinker** » 28 Jul 2006 23:29

How did you install vlc? Is libffmpeg installed? At Linux there is "top" or hit [strg]+[esc] in KDE.

Postby DJ » 28 Jul 2006 23:55

Sorry about that!

If you press ctrl i or View, Stream and Media Information and then go to Advanced Information tab while playing a video, VLC should show Formats correctly. Messages will still give good indications as to the problems the player encounters.

noknow · Postby **noknow** » 30 Jul 2006 09:47

Hello to all,

I found the problem. It was the 3D desktop. It seems that when Gnome says your video card is not in the xgl database it really means this can cause problems. (Even though during other tasks it seemed to work fine).
Even more, switching of 3D desktop solved my problem of not being able to suspend/resume my laptop.

I'm starting to love linux. Everything works now.

Thanks to everyone taking their time to answer my question.

Btw: mplayer works full speed now too.

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