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| Kippesoep |
| Posted: Apr 19 2003, 01:06 PM |
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For anybody who's interested: DivX networks have released DivX 5.0.4 on April 17th.
Quick links:
What's new
Main download page
Direct download of DivX5.0.4 free |
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| endorphin |
| Posted: Apr 23 2003, 03:04 AM |
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Nice to see that 5.04 is finished with the beta stage. That "Schizo Beta" opening screen was creepy 
Includes new "Electrokompressiongraph" ("EKG") tool that allows you to directly modify the bitrate modulation over time by graphically editing the divx.log file that is generated by the 1st two passes of a multipass encode. I tried playing with this and although the user interface is very new and not very powerful yet, it works! I took a video that I'm encoding that had trouble with grainy artifacts immediately after every fade from scene to scene, so it needed a higher bitrate at those points. Using EKG I modified the modulation parameter for just those areas, then ran another Nth pass encode, and it cleaned up the messy fades without adding a lot to the size of the file. |
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| pf100 |
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I was using divx 5.0.3. I just installed 5.0.4 and the audio gets slightly out of sync gradually and becoming noticeable after about an hour. I think I may go back to 5.0.3. |
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| Cerberus |
| Posted: Apr 26 2003, 03:50 PM |
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5.0.5 now!!!! |
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| endorphin |
| Posted: Apr 28 2003, 05:16 AM |
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Embarrassing! Putting out a bugfix that quick. On the other hand I guess it is an honorable thing to be able to react that quickly.
There seems to be another bug they have overlooked. I have been encoding video with DivX since version 4.something and have never had this problem. My sources are 16:9 originally out of my DV camera (1.2 pixel aspect ratio and 720x480 pixels). I run them through some editing in After Effects and render out at 720x480 1:1 square pixels, in uncompressed or HuffYUV format. Lastly I run the resulting AVI through VDub using DivX to make compressed versions of various sizes. With all DivX versions up to and including 5.0.3, the aspect ratio came out correct. Since I upgraded to 5.0.4 and now 5.0.5, my widescreen sources get incorrectly encoded somehow and the resulting AVIs play back in Windows Media Player with the wrong pixel aspect ratio (I think 1.2 again). The only way to see the output video correctly is to view it with DivX player, forcing a custom aspect ratio to correct the problem.
I guess I'll go post that on the DivX forums. |
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| Sajal |
| Posted: Apr 28 2003, 08:13 AM |
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Does 5.05 solves the MV Bin problem, if anybody checked it out please post it.
I'm not going to upgrade only for some issues with some frontend s/w which I never use.
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