Posted by elrous0 on 11/02/07 18:38

On Oct 25, 9:44 am, Erich93063 <erich93...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ok sorry if this has been discussed a thousand times but I cant figure
> this out and I've been searching all over for some answers. I have a
> Yamaha standalone DVD player that can play Divx movies. So I download
> a Divx avi and when I watch it on my computer and it looks GREAT.
> Crystal clear, no problems. Then I burn it onto a CD or DVD depending
> how big it is and when I watch it on my DVD player it looks like crap.
> It looks like there a missing frames or something. The action looks
> really weird and doesn't quite sync up with the audio and it looks a
> little blurry. Is there something I need to be doing besides just
> slamming the avi onto a CD. Is there a setting on my DVD player I need
> to set maybe?

Most DVD players suck at playing Divx files. Divx requires a LOT more
CPU muscle to decode than a DVD (it's much more heavily compressed).
You're not going to find that kind of muscle in most stand-alone
players, hence you get artifacting, frame drops, poor audio/video
sync. etc.

-Eric

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