Page 1 of Can a DivX movie be played on a DVD player?

well can it? Are they different to video CD`s?

DVD:s/SVCD:S are Mpeg 2 and VCD:s are Mpeg 1. Divx ;) is a hack on MS Mpeg 4 format, this can naturaly not be played on a regular DVD player. You can however conver it into SVCD but this is a very time consuming process and you would end up with something below VHS quality spanning multiple cd:s. Now is that what you want? Now is it!

;)

cheers, just wandering. Guess I`ll have to keep watching divX on my crappy computer

Worth mentioning that when I had a play I got a divx file of about 1.8G,
SVCD files are about that big and, on my attempt, were of better
quality and of course play on DVDs.
I assume here that your copying DVDs to get these in the first place
Perhaps I`m doing divx wrong though as I didn`t spend too much time on them

Worth mentioning that when I had a play I got a divx file of about 1.8G,
SVCD files are about that big and, on my attempt, were of better
quality and of course play on DVDs.
I assume here that your copying DVDs to get these in the first place
Perhaps I`m doing divx wrong though as I didn`t spend too much time on them

oops, sorry

I believe that there is a hacked firmware for the X-wave which lets you play DivX :-) . Unfortunatly, It is based on a very old version of the x-wave software with some loader problems. Also I am unable to find it. The website where you can get it is in dutch and is very hard to navigate. You have to sign up just to download firmwares. (not easy in Dutch)

I downloaded a Divx trailer for X Men and coverted it to a VCD.

I think it looked and sounded quite good on my DVD player

I downloaded The Mummy Returns, a 600MB divx file, split it in 2 and re-encoded to VCD. It plays very well on my DVD

sure its vcd? I`ve got sixth sense, original version, on vcd. You can tell
easily its vcd, especially on the action scenes (such as there are).
Also I`ve got copied versions of the matrix and frequency and they
both suck.
On the other hand I had a go at hollow man, converting to svcd and I
was damn impressed. For the most part its hard to tell its not a
dvd (although again on the action scenes you can).
Could be wrong and perhaps divx->vcd works well. Wouldn`t be
surprised if your converting to svcd by mistake though.
How did you do it?