Media Player and VBR mp3 Divx's

[Azzjw]

With Divx's that are encoded with a VBR mp3 soundtrack, the Player refuses to fast forward or resume from pausing.
Most movies seem to run out of sync as well.

The only solution I have found is to make sure the mp3 soundtrack is encoded at a cbr (constant bit rate) mp3.

Hopefully in the future, the media player fixes this incompatiblity.

A vbr mp3 encoded DIVX also affects the default DIVX Playa that comes with the DIVX 5 codec, but not Media Player or Zoom Player...

The new version of Gordian Knot is set to VBR by default and is a pain to change.

If anyone has any other suggestions on this particular problem that will be muchly appreciated.

Cheerio.

[Azzjw]

Just replying to myself
Easy fix.
In the Divx Encoding Contol panel just use custom params and put this line in next to lame: --alt-preset cbr 128.
My Azid presets are like this: -L -3db -s surround -c normal
The movie now has CBR audio mp3....BUT Gordian Knot flags it as VBR.

Just open the avi in Virtual dub, it will give a vbr warning - just ignore it and resave the file (direct stream copy, both for video and audio) it will take about 2 mins. Presto, we have seeking capabilities on the PS2.

Cheers.