A long time back when i was a member i had made a comparason of all the divx size compressions and all that but now i can't seem to find my chart anywhere, or even info on divx for that reson, the net seems to hold it no longer. I haven't been able to find any good divx tutorials, and i haven't been able to find any VCDs tutorials, i have a disc that will play vcd but i hear there was a better one where the pain was it didn't have disc sawping but you could fast foward and rewind using the joystick. are those tutorials still around.

what the divx version that i have to install? what does it work best with, because i doupt that divx 6 is gona work here.

thank you, what about VCD?

Just out of curiosity is divx basically the same as VCD? Because I've come across video files which supposedly fit on to a regular CD and have probably been split into two files to spread onto two CD-Rs.  I noticed once in Nero when I did this that such a file effortlessly converted to VCD format for divx and I think it looked the same sort of quality.  Is divx exactly the same quality as VCD and does it just have better compression, that's all? Thnx.

there is also VC/DC by OneThirty8

also i found  uDCdivx to be better than dcdivx.

Mark_Thompson wrote on Nov 18^th, 2009, 8:43am:

Hello again Mark, I'm not exactly sure what you are asking but I'll take a stab at answering.

Really high quality video playback does require better processing power to an extent, but really it depends on the actual software that is used for playback of the video file, some video software is very resource hungry whilst others are fairly 'light' on processing power. With the Dreamcast it all depends on three main things really:

1 - The Dreamcast itself.
2 - The capacity of a CDR.
3 - The limitations of the software.

HD and BluRay are currently setting the modern standards for visual entertainment, and there is no way in hell that the Dreamcast can compete with anything like that. At best the good old DC can be comparable to VHS, VCD, and near DVD quality for video playback. As for DC software there's quite a few video players available (but all have their own limitations).

All DCEvo releases (wether they are samplers or complete movies) are created for a 'balance' - that means they will play on a Dreamcast, the video sits in the 'safe zone' of the software limitations, and the CD size won't kill the bandwidth. Video playback on the Dreamcast can be better than anything we have released over here, but it takes trial and error to get the absolute best audio and visual data output from the DC without crashing the software that is available.

Modern codecs for video are producing really high quality output with relatively small file sizes, but we do not have the software for the Dreamcast to play those movie files (just imagine how good the quality would be with an MP4 player where you could just download the movie and burn straight to CDR without re-encoding).

The original source video file is important when creating any compressed video from it, you need the source file to have very good quality before you start. Any codec used after that will create some sort of artifact when compression is used, so the better the source to begin with, the less artifacts are present when the file is compressed to the format you want.

Hope that's answered your question Mark, if not, feel free to post back anytime.

I just downloaded the file , "superman" from the media section and when I try to extract it it says, "CRC failed in superman.cdi. The file is corrupt.

Also it was, "The Most Dangerous Game" can you let me know when you replaced both of theses.