Help with DivX on Lite-On DD-A110

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Hi everyone,

I purchased a Lite-On DD-A110 from a high street supermarket recently. I have been very impressed with it given its £60 price tag, its recording is perfectly simple to use (even my grandparents with a combined age of 155 odd have worked it all out in under a day!)

As a DVD player and recorder its impecabble, one of the best menu's ive seen (though ive only ever seen low end recorders) the player is on the latest firmware.

My problem is that MPEG-4 files generally play slightly jerkily and the sound is almost never in synch. Feature wise it seems fine, ive played through the DivXtest 2.0 CD, it seemed to support everything it could throw at it BUT the sound was slightly behind the video... on my personal media files I am finding that say 1 in 10 is more or less ok but most are slightly jerky and the sound is nearly always de-synched, sometimes worse than others. I have also found that if I have more than one AVI on a disk then even if the first is in synch, if I move onto the next file it will definately be wayy off (around 2 seconds or so usually.)

We bought 2 of these units and both do exactly the same. I have tried 4 different types of media, all burned at the slowest speed. None of the files have a compressed bitstream although some vary in FPS (some 23.967 some 25.00) and of course their audio varies between MP3 and AC3.

I'm hoping this is an issue lite-on will simply fix with a firmware fairly soon, I have emailed them. In the meantime though, what are the key things to look out for on media files being played in a MPEG-4 DVD player? Clearly *something* causes it as otherwise the odd file wouldnt be perfect...

Any help that anyone can offer would be much appreciated :)
 
Thanks for the heads up, ill keep a lookout :) Dont think replacing the unit is going to be easy in these but being honest if they outlast their warranty and then die then at £60 it wont be too painful...

I've kept the receipt either way ;)

Any ideas re: the MPEG-4 playback? It really was the main reason I choose this model and its slightly frustrating :(
 
manic_man said:
Thanks for the heads up, ill keep a lookout :) Dont think replacing the unit is going to be easy in these but being honest if they outlast their warranty and then die then at £60 it wont be too painful...

I've kept the receipt either way ;)

Any ideas re: the MPEG-4 playback? It really was the main reason I choose this model and its slightly frustrating :(

I'm afraid not, I've resigned myself to the fact nearly all budget DVD player have sync issues and such, even from brand names.

My £60 Panasonic DVD-S29 Player (just a player!!) pauses for ages when switching layers, and sometimes knocks out of sync. Just one of those things i'm afraid :(
 
The thing is its not like its a little issue or anything, this is a DivX certified player and it is rendered entirely useless playing DivX's (and xVid), not just annoyingly so, but to the point whereby the image has moved to the next scene and you hear the last ones audio :s

I simply cant believe this got through their QC labs!! As i said previosely, I know there are always some slight issues with cheap players due to cheap chipsets etc etc butthis is beyond useable. My mate has a Umax Chilli player and that handles all of these files perfectly (and was £20 less but i was ttracted by the Lite-Ons size and recorder capabilities...)

I do hope Lite-On come back to my tech support email with... something! Even if its just some specific setting that it cant handle corectly, id happily modify my media files first if it meant they worked properly :(
 
encephalopathy said:
this site may help

http://www.moitah.net/

the mpeg4 modifier - get one of the jerky divx files, modify it with this then burn it and try playing it again

Hi, Ive had a play with this tool but cant really see what I need to change. I know this player has problems with compressed bit stream, but none of my files have a compressed bit stream... Not too sure what else to try :\
 
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