Here is another cool DivX tool:

http://www.digital-digest.com/software/divxmux_gui.html

What this does is to mux separate audio and a video renders into one composite file. This is useful because Vegas can't seem to render a DivX file with an MP3 soundtrack all at once. If you render the DivX file with no audio and the audio as an mp3 then mux them together with the linked tool, you can build a proper DivX file pretty painlessly.

Okay, I figured out how to get the stage6 video sight to host the video while playing from my site. (if you are interested look at my code on those pages which are under (Complete Wedding Video) under the picture on the main page.

Something strange though, I am having a problem with the ceremony video bringing up a runtime error in IE7 but not firefox. Plus, all the other videos work in IE7 that are divx, just not the ceremony.

j razz

Does this help? It's from the DivX website.


QUOTE: "Gee, am I glad you asked that question! Are you a plant or something? You see, now that we've released a beta of the official DivX Web Player, putting DivX movies on your web page is easier than finding security flaws in Windows ME.

Simply use our handy dandy automatic plug-in code generator and copy the script into your own page! That's it. You don't need to install any new components on your server or even have an administrator account, and the DivX Web Player works with Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems which means you can use it almost anywhere.

And, if you're into DIY, there's even a DivX Browser Plug-In Webmaster SDK that lets you customize and script the plug-in to suit your tastes and provide greater interactivity in your page design.

Until next time, thank you for flying DivX."

Thanks for the information MH Stevens. I have already utlilized the code generator but it produces the wrong code for stage6 hosted vids. Although it produces working code for vids posted elsewhere.

In the last post I made I stated I got it working from stage6 although I am having problems with 1 video pulling an error.

Thanks though.

j razz

Sorry if my last post was redundant. Since reading your post I have been playing with DivX. For me it would not convert a cineform avi for the DivX player to play.

However, this looks great technology and I am wondering now why do we need BuleRay or HDDVD or even a DVD player when my computer and DivX gives such great results as I saw with the HD trailers?

Neither the regular DivX convertor or Dr. DivX will convert Cineform directly. Dr. DivX will convert HDV m2t though.

VirtualDub will convert Cineform beautifully though as will AVISynth.

You can find the link to the SDK here:

http://www.divx.com/products/experts/index.php?ID=11

There's some cool stuff in the documentation that goes beyond the simple code generator stuff. For instance you can specify whether or not somebody is allowed to download the DivX files played by the player by putting an "ns" at the end of the name before the extension.

I too am wondering about the necessity of BlueRay or HD DVD for HD content delivery. The 1080 DivX template is set to a bitrate of 3000 kbps. That's about half of what I am currently using for standard SD DVDs and the output looks simply outstanding. Yeah the extra storage space is nice, but if I can deliver two hours of HD on a regular DVD-R, do I really need it?

What I'm both hoping and expecting is that in a year or so, the cheap Chinese companies like Daewoo and Cyberhome will give us the dirt cheap dual format BlueRay/HD-DVD/DivX/Xvid/mpeg4 players that we all want for about $150 or so at Walmart. They will play back both PAL and NTSC and be world zone hackable. If you use the DivX format, you'll be able to do menus, subtitles and alternate audio sountracks in the DivX Ultra format as well.

Laurence:

So, if I have a 1080i Vegas project on the timeline what the best work-flow to get that to a DivX in a DVD?

Um, Daewoo is South Korean...

Well, I'm just sayin'...

Besides, with Divx rather restrictive licensing agreements, we probably won't see much un-pirated content for the players anyway. Why else would AVC and VC-1 get so much more of the pie when they appear, at first glimpse, to be inferior encoding methods (as far as bitrate to quality goes). If you read Dr. Divx licensing agreements, it costs much more than $20 to use their product for commercial purposes (and the Xvid developers have disclaimers distancing themselves from commercial use).

Well, anything compatible with Xvid is also compatible with DivX aside from the menuing, sub-titling, and VOD number authorizing. I think that the fact that Xvid is free and public domain and close enough for anyone who doesn't want to pay the licensing fee is one of the strengths of the DivX format.

What I see is this: the industry is going to eventually go with some inexpensive format that allows uncopyprotected user content as well as files that are tied into a codes embedded into the hardware players (much like iPods). Hardware licensing codes, menuing, alternatate audio tracks and subtitles are all going to be a part of any kind of commercial release that is downloadable and those people won't mind paying relatively small licensing fees in exchange for some sort of copy protection and guaranteed features and quality playback. Meanwhile, there's Xvid for anybody who wants to do just regular playback for free.

AVC and VC-1 are competing for this pie as well, but they are way behind the game. Another huge obstacle is that Microsoft and Apple care much more what the industry thinks that it does about consumer convenience. They are likely to kill themselves with their own greed. DivX is already in a large percentage of inexpensive DVD players, has all the features that consumers want, and as you stated, is quite a bit superior bit-rate to video quality wise. DivX also has a pretty wide acceptance in much of the world outside the US. DivX will play back really well in an old P3 or $40 DVD player. AVC and VC-1 strain far more powerful computers and won't be showing up in any of the low cost DVD players that most people use for years.

Here's how to make a DivX file from a Vegas timeline:

Taking for granted you have already downloaded and installed the DivX codec.

First, render the audio as an mp3.

Second, render the video as a DivX file that doesn't include audio using one of the presets (home theater, HD or 1080).

Third use the tool found here to mux the audio and video portions together into a file with either a "divx" or "avi" extension.

If you don't want to spend the $20 on the DivX encoder and codec, you can always use the free Xvid encoder for free. It is wonderful as well.

Laurence -

You are a PRINCE!!

Can't wait to try all this out - Thanks.

v

Also, if you display a divx vid on your website and email divxwebplayer at divxcorp dot com stating you are using a pc or mac and give them the link to ensure you are hosting a divx vid on your site, they will send you a free serial for the 19.99 encoder.

It took me about 3 days to get the serial.

j razz

I can't find it on your site. Where should I look?

http://www.jrazzcreations.com/Divx_Intro.html

If you were asking me Laurence, this is where I have the videos posted. I just took the vobs and converted them over. I know I lost quality but I just wanted to see what it could do. Next time I think I will just render straight from the timeline to divx and see what I can get.

j razz

Thanks Jeremey. By the way, if you are converting VOBs, Dr. DivX lets you specify some of the higher quality options that the regular DivX converter doesn't give you access too.

http://labs.divx.com/DrDivX

Looks great J.

Thanks for the link.

Have a good night buddy.

j razz

For anyone who wants to make a Divx file out of a DVD, it's not immediately obvious, but you can just grab the main title VOBs and drag them to either the DivX convertor GUI or the input box in Dr. DivX 2.0. If you drag several VOBs from a single sequence, either DivX convertor will assemble them automatically and render a single complete DivX file. It is really easy.

Another thing about Dr. DivX:

It has two really useful features:

1/ you can pause a render (or a batch render)
2/ you can set the render priority and change it at any time.

Both these things mean that if you start a DivX conversion, you can still use your computer before the render is done.

Laurence:

You said, "Second, render the video as a DivX file that doesn't include audio using one of the presets (home theater, HD or 1080)"

I'm asking how to do this. I don't see and rendering format that mentions DivX.

I'm not sure if this was answered, but to embed a DivX file from Stage6 into your own page, you just need to find the location of the file on the Stage6 DivX servers. I'm not sure if there's an easier way, but how I do this is just right click on the page as the video is loading and then select 'view page source'. Somewhere in there you will find it. You may have to search the page for the term divx. Anyway, here's one of mine, so it should look something like this - http://video.stage6.com/152114/1046151.divx

I'm a big fan of Stage 6 by the way. The fact that you can upload videos up to 2gb in size for free! At that size, you could probably still fit in a 720P feature length film. Well, almost.