DIVX 4.0 beta 2 is out
Posted on 27/07/01 09:11 by                              
DIVX 4.0 beta 2 is out
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Divx 4.0 beta 2 came out today (7/26/01).

Bugs Fixed in DivX 4.0 Beta 2

DivX DirectShow filter was not working on Windows NT 4.0
Encoding was broken at very high bitrates. You would receive a scrambled picture if you tried to encode either in quality-based VBR at quality level >=95% or in two-pass VBR at bitrates roughly higher than 1500-2000 kbps
Decoder was crashing in some cases on Pentium II/Celeron machines (a few SSE instructions were accidentally put into MMX YUV->RGB conversion routines)
Decoder was crashing with postprocessing level 6 or 7 and 16*N < height <= 16*N+8
Fixed one obscure DivX 3.x decoder incompatibility issue
DivX decoder filter was crashing when used by BSPlayer
There was a parameter in encoder settings called "crispness" in configuration dialog and "frame dropping" in help file. It caused a lot of confusion
The help file section on postprocessing contained two similar paragraphs, written slightly differently
The Codec's "About" dialog box showed an unreadable character after the word "DivX." On machines with Russian installed, it is a "™" sign, but many machines don't have Russian fonts :-)
Added brightness, contrast and saturation sliders
Encoder now stores its settings in the registry


Allready a beta 2. Well, then i'll guess the final version is just around the corner.

Source: DIVX Dot Com

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By Guest, Fri 27 Jul 2001 09:24
Smilie Cool gonna use it..... Hope there are not tomany bugs now...
By Guest, Fri 27 Jul 2001 10:33
I reported one already ;p I'm sure a lot of poeple will do so, and i beleive this version will be pretty kick ass to it's final version
By Paradiddle, Fri 27 Jul 2001 10:45
so for now, I'm sticking with 3.11a Big Grin
By ViRuZ, Fri 27 Jul 2001 12:21
thats right stick to 3.11 ... also read http://doom9.org/ (best dvd rip guides on the net) 4.0 b2 seems to have some very big bugs ...
By ViRuZ, Fri 27 Jul 2001 12:25
OK i just read in the "the new divx has arived newthread" and have to say that there are a lot of good players ... for example "powerdivxnextgen" , micro dvd 1.2 , zoobplayer , bsplayer ... etc. in my op microdvd & powerDivxNG are the best players ...
By InterCepTor, Fri 27 Jul 2001 18:49
Don't you peeps ever have anything good to say, all I ever see is moaning about this and that. If you think you could do better, then suprise us! release a **** hot program to beat this one, with no bugs @ all :8. Not a chance in hell, just mail the author with the probs just quit griping on and on in the forum ok, it gets boring after a while. I am sure I am not the only one that thinks this way either! Wink GrEeTs FrOm ThE WaRm UK devil
By ViRuZ, Fri 27 Jul 2001 19:25
well well well .... i just said that one who wants the best shoud use the better version of the codec .... i don't dislike the codec in genereal ... viruz
By Guest, Fri 27 Jul 2001 23:15
I hope they also fix the bug that show subtitles (srt files) in windows mediaplayer 6.4 or 7.0. With divx 3.11 this gives no problem
By Hypnosis4U2NV, Sat 28 Jul 2001 06:11
Hypnosis4U2NVIm D/L'ing this one.. The first beta caused BSPlayer to crash.. Anyone give a link to powerdivxNG? Thanks devil
By stvastva, Sat 28 Jul 2001 09:11
Now all I need to do is figure out how to get the full Dolby Digital Ac-3 5.1 audio track on my Cdr along with the DivX;-) file.
By Zyron, Sat 28 Jul 2001 11:33
Full Dolby Digital Souround kan be achieved with Radium Mpeg3 codec along with Flaskmpeg.
By ViRuZ, Mon 30 Jul 2001 12:13
Or you can just use the ac3 file. You can mux (multiplex = combining videostream and audiostream) the ac3 with a special version of VirtualDub ... but there may be other ways (for example using graphedit). The tools can be found on http://doom9.org or http://www.divx-digest.com. I know that PowerDivxNG can play avi/ac3 files but you also could download some ac3 filter on http://www.digital-digest.com/nickyguides/audio-extract.htm so you can play avi/ac3 movies on WMP6.4 or higher ... :4 ViRuZ P.S.: some direkt links ... Ac3 on doom9 http://doom9.org/Soft21/Packs/ac3-pack.zip PowerDivxNG 3.0 on doom9 http://doom9.org/Soft21/pdivxng30.exe ac3 filter on digital digest http://perso.club-internet.fr/ches/dvd/dshow/ivids20.zip (i think this is the ac3 filter but i dont know exactly ...)
By ViRuZ, Mon 30 Jul 2001 12:18
zyron you are talking about dolby souround. stvastva is talking about dolby digital ..... IMHO downsamling is the best way to do audio ViRuZ

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