Ripped some DVD’s over the weekend using DiVX. Once I load them onto my Plex movie share, I ran the library update, and it refuses to see them.
I haven’t seen this before. Do I need to re-rip them?
Plex recognizes divx. What container did you use?
While this isn’t constructive to the topic, but why, why, why would you use DivX these days?
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To be clear. Plex will recognize the divx codec, which is just a type of mpeg4. It will not recognize .divx as an extension if that is what you are using. divx should be in an avi, mp4, or mkv container.
@cayars said:
While this isn’t constructive to the topic, but why, why, why would you use DivX these days?
That’s two ‘Amens’ for you in one day.
You’re on a roll.
B)
Amen, Amen I say to you, but I still want to know why anyone would use DivX these days other them to experiment. 
@cayars said:
Amen, Amen I say to you, but I still want to know why anyone would use DivX these days other them to experiment.
Because for them, “It’s always been done that way?”
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Old habits die hard?
Yea, it’s kinda like Local Media Assets being in the top slot by default, making the use of MP4 files for the vast majority impossible… Always been done that way… can’t (won’t) change now.
Just to add one more thing to this: It is said that the one phrase most likely to herald the end civilization is: “It’s always been done that way.” 
>:) o:)
because, half my library is like this and I am buggered if I am ripping it all again. I have far too much to do with the new stuff.
When I started doing this I didn’t know better like most who start from scratch. Guides are few and far between and all contradict each other because everyone has an opinion. Like Cayers. At the time Divx was producing some pretty damn good and clear results. It seemed the way to go. Clearly I and others changed when that became obvious it was wrong.
It used to work with Plex too, now it doesn’t. So all of the Why are you so stupid, is utterly unhelpful.
So, If I have Mp4 and AC3 files that were ripped with Divx that are indeed rapped in a Divx rapper. What now? Do I convert them, just rename them them or what?
Generous help most appreciated in advance.
Facetious know it all’s aren’t. Ever frankly.
J.
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I have some! Xvid, too. I simply don’t have the original DVD’s anymore for whatever reason, and I don’t consider it worth the trouble to re-buy them.
Get MKVtoolnixGUI and drag one of these files onto it. If there is no error message, press ‘Start Multiplexing’ at the bottom.
If all goes well, you’ll get a MKV file out of this. If that works if you add it into Plex, you can start remuxing all your DIVX files.
remux_divx_to_mkv.zip (303 Bytes) is a little batch file which remuxes all .divx files in the current folder.
(MKVtoolnix needs to be installed previously)
Without seeing the files it’s hard to be sure but I doubt it’s just the wrapper or package. I’d bet the video is encoded with dvix which is sort of an advanced AVI codec.
You can’t just rename the file to mp4 or mkv and hope it works as now you just confuse the system more. 
I know this isn’t something you really want to hear but your best bet long term would be to setup a script to convert every divx file to mp4 or mkv using H.264 (or H.265 if you can play that on every device). It sucks, but is the best thing to do.
By complete coincidence, one of my oldest files got played tonight on my Roku. MPC-BE says it’s encoded in DIVX 5. It’s in an AVI wrapper. It played perfectly. It got transcoded to H264 of course.
I suspect @OttoKerner nailed it: It’s the .divx wrapper getting in the way. Once he remuxes the existing video from .divx to .mkv without any re-encoding, it’ll work like a charm in Plex, even with the old codec. I think he can save the trouble (and small quality loss) of doing a full encode, which is probably unnecessary.
Edit: Forgot to add, there are playback devices where the AVI will get played directly, such as Plex Media Player. If not for that, I’d agree with Cayars that it’s just easier to re-encode it once to AVC and just direct-play it everywhere. I guess it depends on the playback devices.
Yes, if his devices will play it cleanly from just a remux (test well) then a script could be used to repackage all files on his system which would be pretty quick compared to having to convert them and there would be no quality loss either.
Just depends on his devices.
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BTW I added your exact point with an edit a few minutes ago. Sorry about that, it makes yours look redundant. Obviously I completely agree with you.
Yep, guess we cross posted that point.
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