[MPlayer-dev-eng] divx 5.0.2 support ?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 04:03:53PM +0300, Alex Shnitman wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 15:57, Arpi wrote:
> 
> > > Some users reported that new windows version of divx5 is out, and is not
> > > compatible (wonder?) with libavcodec...
> > > 
> > > sample file at incoming: divx502.avi
> > > i had no time yet to download and try
> > i did it now, and couldn't reproduce :(
> 
> I'm playing movies I encoded with DivX 5.02 just fine with mplayer. The
> only problem is that seeking quite often creates an image that's kind of
> a super-imposition of the original image (the point from which we seek)
> and the motion vectors at the new point. It's kind of hard to explain,
> but in other words, until the next keyframe the image is screwed.
> 
> I thought it has something to do with B-frames, which are new in DivX 5
> so may not be supported by libavcodec very well. Is that the situation,
> or should I file a proper bugreport?

Sounds like it's most likely a bug in Divx5 that causes non-keyframes
to be marked as keyframes, perhaps in the avi index. Have you tried
with -forceidx? Or rebuilding the file with mencoder -oac,-ovc copy?

Rich