Why I can't used this DiVX compressor ???

Animation worked only with the others codecs from this window:

I'm not sure whats up with DivX...... I rendered a thirty second clip in Lightwave and it came out at about 700k with DivX and it looked almost as good as the 130mb render did. I read somewhere that DivX is just a hack and not to trust it. You might want to render fullframe and do it up in a video compositor. I think thats the best way anyhoo. You can reinstall the DivX app and see if that helps and be sure to read anything that came with it,I think I saw something in there about frame size come to think of it. My machine is working right now or I would go dig it out myself...... Hope this helps somewhat.........

Polonus, I beleive your problem is that DivX does not support the aspect ratio your trying to render. I've gotten the same message and when I changed the resolution to a standard size (like 640 x 480, 320 x 240) I had no problem.Hope this helps. greg

Indeo.....Cinepak is outdate and inferior

I vote for Indeo too...I've done tons of experimenting and Indeo is they way to go....I used to use DivX 4.xx whatever it was before 5 came out and it was great for the Videos I was doing (image captures of online car racing from video games) it was great for that ...but I've never been able to figure out how to get this Divx 5.0 to turn out any but crap ;-( from my Bryce, Poser or After Effects stuff.

Thanks for answers. I animated using uncompressed frames and avi file is very big. Now I use Indeo codec and will be wait for end of rendering some hours...or more ;(

Polonus - I usually render uncompressed frames out of Bryce and then in Premiere after assembling shots, I save that out as DivX or Indeo or even quicktime. Of course, one must have Premiere or some video editor for this.

I'm having no problems gettign bryce to use the DivX or Indeo compressions, but regardless of the settings it always looks gravely artifacted and the filesize doesn't change if I change the datarate. Maybe bryce's compressed output just sucks, just like the JPG output (I have never used it, but I have heard about people having problems with it that you wouldn't even expect from the first Beta-version of a program). I usually burn my animations in uncompressed format to a CD-R/CD-RW and go to a friend with some good video-editing software and he compresses it and it looks fine. For example I just compressed a 1.26 GB animation to 26 MB using DivX 5.0 and there was almost no visible difference. I don't know about the aspect ratio I usually render at 4:3 or 5:4