[Dave0098]

Hi Everyone, ive got a Samsung Divx DVD player and i regularly burn Divx files to a DVD and watching them with no problem, can get about 6 movies on a DVD depending on their running time.

A couple of times now ive taken the exact same disc to my dads house for him to watch on his Bush Divx DVD player and only a couple of the films will play, the other films on the same disc either dont play at all or play for 10-15mins and then stop.

can anyone explain why this is happening? am i doing something wrong?

cheers Dave

[daveaka]

I think its a bit of a mindfield with no real definitive answer imo. I have a Philips dvd recorder, the same make and model as 2 other friends and the Divx playback of the same DVD varies between all players especially when using a DVD with a number of files on it.

Like you I can watch a film with no problems but the same film on my mates dvd player will not play for the duration, to top it off some films wont play on mine yet they play on the others ...

I've found using CDR's seems to sort the compatibility out, especially when using Nero and ticking the Divx compatibility box just before burning....The only problem is you can't fit multiple video files on a CD

[daveaka]

I've just been searching around on the net and a few people are recommending This program (MPEG4 modifier), its supposed to increase compatibility, working at the moment so cant try it out...

[y2k]

I think it depends on the DVD player and the codec and program that is used to transcode the film to DivX, most DivX players won't play all types of DivX. My player will play DivX v5 that have been encoded with WINAVI but will not play the same film that has been transcoded to DivX v5 with some other programs, it also won't play the new DivX v6 or some of the older versions.

If you find a program that works then it should work every time as long as the discs are ok.

Look up the internet at your dads DivX player and it should tell you what versions of DivX or XviD it should play.