What are your thought.....??????
DivX really needs to step up, and fix there software.
The DivX Player is broken, and doesn't play x264 files for some time now.
It still doesn't (after a whole year) support subtitles in .mkv files,
and neither does there horrible converter.
There so called 'MKV for windows 7' doesn't respect correct aspect ratios (even after several months).
All these big issues, and still no response for DivX. Are they ever going to fix these problems?
They do however have time to introduce yet another application (DivXTV).
Sigh.......
Maybe there better off writing a proper Media Foundation solution for there codec, and leave the development of applications to 3rd parties. (considering there track record so far!)
What are your thought.....??????
When i said x264, i really meant every h.264 encoded file i did in the last few months.
I should have been more specific there.
Concerning player compatibillity, do you mean to tell me every player out there can play my h.264 encoded .mkv and .mp4 files, but DivX cannot. And this is because DivX is the only player with a correct implementation of the h.264 specification. Hmmm... I think not.
The fact of the matter is, the DivX player is broken for Windows 7.
It takes forever for an file to play, which tells me it has a buffering issue. This has nothing to do with improper encodes, or any kind of wrapper used.
As for the aspect ratio. The DivX player respects the aspect ratio. As do all the other players.
How is this a encoding problem?
I think the problem is piggy backing on the Media Foundation implementation from microsoft. Maybe it's not perfect, but microsoft seems to do ok with it (aspect ratio wise). It's just that the DivX mkv splitter is no good combined with windows 7's media foundation implementation. They clearly don't like each other. This has nothing to do with any kind of wrapper, except the one from DivX.
Maybe i'm way of here, but those are my 2 cents.
Anyway, i really just hoped for (any) response from DivX in these matters. They seems to react in there normal way, which is, ignore the problem until either, it solves itself, the complainers move on, or the product is absolete.
So which encoder you use to encode your H.264 videos?
About player compatibility, I would not go that far, just yet. When I started using Windows 7, I notice one thing immediately. Windows 7 does not like other third party vendors to mess up their codecs and registry. Once tampered with, the system will disable the function for stability issues (that's their claim anyways).
For all I know, I have altered the registry properly. The system decide that the registry has changed, it cripple a certain function. I assume that Windows 7 apply that to other decoder as well, because registry change was "touched". If you play around with Windows 7, you'll know that it monitor and protect a lot of functionality. Once it is out of its exception, it will cripple itself. But don't take what I say here seriously. That's just my yapping.
Yeah, I can say for sure that the "connection" and "buffering" is a bit of a problem on the DPWP2.
Porfition and Digital56K knows how the encoders and codecs works. For me, I am just guessing it all the way. I think they are shy to reply to this cos I mess up their 2cents lol. Do wish to hear what they have to say about all these codec problem though. Perhaps they are busy grinding their work and didn't have time to reply.
You can give me 2cents after but here's what I think.
x264 encoding is an open project. The work derive from enthusiast who wants their player to be able to play H.264 encoded videos. The algorithm are probably the only thing that is same (if not similar). It works. But the program coders used varieties of unorthodox coding scheme to achieve the highest quality possible in their quest to perfect their encoders. Because this is an open-source effort, many coders have a different ways to write their code to achieve the same results. Thus, each videos contains a small variation of wrappers that sometimes does not conform with the different decoding engine. This is why you end up with an old video that now does not work with the new breed of decoders.
I have many videos that works great with the older decoder on XP machine but now that I use Windows 7, I am no longer capable of playing those "improperly encoding" (or "poorly encoding") videos. The videos that isn't capable of playing is not 100% a player problem. It's more like how it was encoded and which encoders used for that specific decoder. So my thought on that is that it's the encoder's fault that use a poorly written wrappers for the video to not play proper via cross-platform.
Now for the "aspect ratio" issue, again, I would bring you back to the way the wrapper is made for decoding an "anamorphic scale" property. People complain about the wrong aspect ratio but they never try to debug that problem. When I did try to debug the problem with the "aspect ratio" issue, I found that those videos are encoded using "anamorphic scale". Thus again, it's because of the encoder and it's settings/configuration.
That's my 2cents for ya. :)