Building a DIVX dvd question

[ShooterMcgavin]

I'm a videographer with lots of backup videoes in divx 6 format.

I'd like to create menu's to use my already encoded files in my fancy Divx Ultra certified players.

Can this program do this without re-encoding them?

Can I just select my Divx files add them to a list and create a divx menu for them?

 

Thanks so much.

Shooter

[dlflannery]

I don't know of ANY regular DVD type software that will. Perhaps you can check the DivX website to see if there is any software that can. It's difficult enough trying to get MPEG 2 files not to re-encode.

I think you're right. I've been experimenting with DivXMediaBuilder which is a free program under rapid development. It looks promising so far. There is a thread devoted to it on the Doom9 forum. It's supposed to do menus, chapters, subtitles, multiple audio tracks, and doesn't require the video titles to all be the same resolution. There is a limit of 4GB on overall file size of the project but that is a lot of video with DivX compression, and that's most of a SL DVD too.

 

There are DivX Ultra Certified standalone players for $70 now and they have good HD features too, e.g., Philips DVP5960.

[grandpabruce]

Thanks Larry... unfortunately it wants to re encode my already divx encoded video's. And wants to double their size too.

If the program could check to see the videos are indeed divx compliant then a recode would not be necessary. I hope this can be dealt with in a future patch.

 

Shooter

 

I am not sure why, but I would think it does it to make it a DVD compliant video file. There aren't many DVD players out there that play the divx movie files, that I know of. Mine does not, but my set top DVD player is coming up on 3 years old, so maybe the new ones do play divx files.

[Larry]

Thanks Larry... unfortunately it wants to re encode my already divx encoded video's. And wants to double their size too.

If the program could check to see the videos are indeed divx compliant then a recode would not be necessary. I hope this can be dealt with in a future patch.

 

Shooter

Ok Shooter, lets see if this helps. You should be able to do what you want using the Disc Copier program as I thought. Note that I don't have a divx player to try out the disc I made, so I suggest using RW discs to play around with a couple small files first.

 

Start out by opening Disc Copier.

You can do this any number of ways from the EMC 9 Home window (for example:: under Copy group: Copy DVD Movies or Compile Movies; Video group: DivX DVDs or Convert Video) or go to Start -> Programs -> Roxio 9 -> Copy -> Disc Copier

 

Now see 1st picture

Once it's open, click on the Video Compilation button.

Under the Source side, click on the Add Movies button and select your divx vid files.

Under the Destination section, select DivX as the Format. Output to can be whatever you want.

When you click on the Options button, you'll get to more choices as in the 2nd picture.

 

 

Options Screen.

Select/change the options you want (in picture I have selected to Creater a Main Menu). Use the Help button to see what each option will do.

click OK when done

 

Disc Copier with menu option.

If you selected a Main Menu, the Disc Copier screen will look like this now. You can change the Menu style by using the Select Style icon. Note that the Options Summary will show you what choices you have made.

When ready, click on the Burn button which will open the Burn Setup screen.

 

Burn Setup Screen

Expand the Burn Options if they aren't already and set the options to your liking. You can also choose whether to burn to disc or image file in the top section.

When all set, click on OK and the first progress window will open and begin encoding.

 

1st progress window

This will show the progress of the files/menus being compiled and encoded (if need be only). If you click on the Details + sign you'll see a preview of the progress of the video file(s).

When it's done, it will move on to the next progress window showing the Burn Progress.

 

 

When it's done, try out the disc. Should be what you are looking for I think.

Hope this helps.

Good Luck & let us know how it turns out for you.

[malatekid]

Larry,

 

Your suggestion is very informative, comprehensive and well illustrated. Great job!

[Beerman]

Larry,

 

Your suggestion is very informative, comprehensive and well illustrated. Great job!

Yes, superb! Larry missed his calling.

[malatekid]

Yes, superb! Larry missed his calling.

Sorry to digress from the topic but his calling? And that would be???

[Beerman]

Sorry to digress from the topic but his calling? And that would be???

I won't post his true calling so you'll have to ask him in private.

Hint: see his avatar.

[grandpabruce]

Yes, superb! Larry missed his calling.

 

I agree.

[malatekid]

I won't post his true calling so you'll have to ask him in private.

Hint: see his avatar.

I got the idea (I hope).

[Larry]

I won't post his true calling so you'll have to ask him in private.

Hint: see his avatar.

Thanks for the kudo's guys, i hope it helps out the OP.

 

Alright, now where'd that Beercanman go? Just wait until i find him

[dlflannery]

Bump....

 

Can anyone confirm a way to get EMC9 to put muliple pre-existing DivX files on a DVD with a simple menu, without re-encoding them? The way described earlier in this thread didn't work for me -- it insisted on re-encoding.

 

Thanks

[ShooterMcgavin]

Thanks Larry I'll be able to check this out tomorrow. It will be interesting to see if it recodes my already encoded files.

[E Brent Price]

Thanks for the kudo's guys, i hope it helps out the OP.

 

Alright, now where'd that Beercanman go? Just wait until i find him

 

Hey, reading this thread helped me out and I'm not even drunk yet! -Brent

[ggrussell]

I don't know of ANY regular DVD type software that will. Perhaps you can check the DivX website to see if there is any software that can. It's difficult enough trying to get MPEG 2 files not to re-encode.

[Beerman]

Thanks for the kudo's guys, i hope it helps out the OP.

 

Alright, now where'd that Beercanman go? Just wait until i find him

Gotta get my digs in when I can. After all, I do have pictures and you know which one I mean Larry.

[grandpabruce]

I'm a videographer with lots of backup videoes in divx 6 format.

I'd like to create menu's to use my already encoded files in my fancy Divx Ultra certified players.

Can this program do this without re-encoding them?

Can I just select my Divx files add them to a list and create a divx menu for them?

 

Thanks so much.

Shooter

 

No, as far as I know. Someone who has dealt with Divx files can jump in here and correct me if I am wrong. It wouldn't be the first time that I was.

[gi7omy]

If you use Creator Classic set to data, the DivX files should copy across just fine - a menu tho may be a different kettle of fish (and I hope someone else can pick this up) but experiment with a RW disc first - even if it only plays in the computer it should prove that the copying of straight DivX works

[Larry]

Gotta get my digs in when I can. After all, I do have pictures and you know which one I mean Larry.

[Larry]

I think you can do it using the Video Compilation mode in Disc copier, altho the menu choices will be limited. As suggested, try it out using an RW disc, or even burn to an image file or video folders.

[grandpabruce]

I think you can do it using the Video Compilation mode in Disc copier, altho the menu choices will be limited. As suggested, try it out using an RW disc, or even burn to an image file or video folders.

 

Thanks, Larry. I hope you are right.

[dlflannery]

Wow this thread is top heavy with Digital Gurus!

 

I hope this really works. I'm planning to buy a DivX DVD player and a simple menu system is just what I'll want on my DVD's. The player I have in mind is a Philips DVP5960 at about $70. It's getting mostly rave reviews on several forums. It would be a good buy even without DivX capability based on its features.

 

The DivX Converter program sold by DivX ($20 including "Pro" DivX Codec, plus another $10 if you want to use mpeg source videos) will put on a simple menu although I suspect it isn't as nice as what you get with EMC9.

 

I've also been seeing a lot of forum talk about a free DivX authoring system (with better-than-simple menu capability) called DivXMediaBuilder. I haven't tried it and suspect the learning curve is more than for Larry's EMC9 procedure.

 

It's nice to know I already have something I paid for that will do the job. However I may use something other than EMC9 to encode my (TiVo) mpegs into DivX. With Dr DivX I was able to compress a 900 MB mpeg2 to a 333 MB DivX at 640x480 with good playback quality. Couldn't find any combination of settings in VideoWave to give me that. I either got a lot less compression (700+ MB) with a 640x480 or I had to go to a 320x240 format, which I assume won't look good on a TV.

 

Anyway thanks for the great instructional post, Larry.

[ShooterMcgavin]

Thanks Larry... unfortunately it wants to re encode my already divx encoded video's. And wants to double their size too.

If the program could check to see the videos are indeed divx compliant then a recode would not be necessary. I hope this can be dealt with in a future patch.

 

Shooter

[ShooterMcgavin]

dlflannery you have saved me

 

My computer has sort of pooped out on me so I was unable to try and create the simple menu's. But now after looking at DivxMediaBuilder I'm going to switch to that. I'm a media professional, so being limited by only my imagination is very exciting.

So I hope this thread helps out others, even though It doesn't pertain to me anymore

 

Shooter

[dlflannery]

Thanks Larry... unfortunately it wants to re encode my already divx encoded video's. And wants to double their size too.

If the program could check to see the videos are indeed divx compliant then a recode would not be necessary. I hope this can be dealt with in a future patch.

 

Shooter

I tried the Disc Copier/Video Compilation method instructions provided in post #8 of this thread and I have the same problem. It insists on re-encoding perfectly good DivX-compliant files. Not only is the time wasted (and quality degraded) by doing this but it also insists on increasing the size more than 2X.

 

What I suspect is going on is this:

1. I've tried making DivX files from Mpeg2 videos 352x480, 2.7 Mbps, (TiVo) and if I use Dr. DivX and the latest DivX Codec it does a great job and produces file sizes about 35% of the original video. These are 900 Kbps DivX, 624x480 resolution, "Home Theatre" profile.

 

2. I tried to make DivX for the same kind of source using VideoWave and could not get any combination of settings to produce compression to 35% with a TV type resolution. For 640x480 resolution the compression was only to about 75% of original (i.e., why bother?). The only way to get more compression was to choose 320x240 output format, which is too small for TV.

 

3. Due to the above, I am using the files produced by Dr. DivX when I attempt to make a video compilation. I suspect Roxio is going to re-encode anything that wasn't originally encoded by Roxio or at least encoded to whatever it considers an "acceptable" format and bit rate.

 

Anybody know how to force a DivX Video Compilation to NOT re-encode?

 

Another problem: when I'm using Disc Copier the mouse/keyboard response becomes terrirble, several seconds response time to any input. I don't have this with other applications. Can this be normal for this application?