X7: No DivX, no previous codecs! How to add them back?

[Hser7]

Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I just "upgraded" to VideoStudio X7 Ultimate from VideoStudio X5 Ultimate and found that I am unable to encode with DivX Codecs in VideoStudio X7 as well. DivX showed up and worked perfectly fine in VideoStudio X5 on my system, but for some reason now it refuses to show up in VideoStudio X7 Ultimate. I'm very upset about this as I primarily use VideoStudio to re-encode videos in DivX format to save space on my hard drive as well as make it easier to upload videos to YouTube or Dropbox. Now it seems that functionality is gone and I'm not happy at all wasting my money on VideoStudio X7 when it has LESS functionality than the previous version I had! I have tried uninstalling DivX, restarting, and re-installing the latest DivX version (10.2.4), which did nothing. I tried uninstalling and re-installing VideoStudio X7 Ultimate, which also made no difference. Even the latest Service Pack 1 for VideoStudio X7 did nothing to help. So, now it seems that I am stuck encoding video files in one of these formats: DV Video Encoder, MJPEG, Microsoft RLE, Microsoft Video 1, Intel IYUV, or Ulead MPEG.Now Encoder, which frankly they all suck. (There is also an option to use proDAD Codec, but whenever I select it, it gives an error message saying "Encoding Not Allowed!", so that is a waste of space as well!)

I really, really, REALLY want my DivX codec back in VideoStudio X7!!! What gives!?!?!?!?!?!

I deeply sympathize, oh MailmAn! Yes, this situation IS totally unacceptable, and Corel should be horribly ashamed! And no, I've never been able to find an acceptable workaround, not even with Corel Maestro Ken Berry's assistance!

But it gets worse!! I figured Corel surely had to have fixed their stupidly buggy code by now and restored DivX encoding (which I love because of it's 8-CPU parallel high-speed processing, which other codecs usually just cannot do), so with this very reasonable expectation in mind, I paid for an upgrade to VideoStudio X8 Ultimate. I searched high and low throughout the Corel site and fora trying to learn if they had indeed fixed this nasty bug, but I could find no word one way or the other, so I had essentially NO choice but to fork over the cash for the upgrade.

But have VideoStudio X8's developers fixed their idiotic design & coding bugs? Of course not! So it will still refuse to even show us the option to perform 8-core parallel DivX 10.x encoding options for output in an avi container!!

I only purchased the upgrade a few days ago, and I'm very much thinking of returning it for my money back (as I'd surely have like to have done with X7 before the 30 days were up. Oh, welll....

I would wish you luck, but these days Corel has little or no desire to actually solve problems with their software anymore...

[Hser7]

My understanding of the DivX issue, is that VSX5 is 32 bit, therefore the DivX codecs are available, with VSX7, the codecs should be available in the 32 bit version but not the 64 bit version. This I believe, is an issue for DivX to resolve, try contacting DivX for advice

NOT True! First, I was actually able to find an old 64-bit version of DivX and installed it, but VS7 & VS8 still refused to acknowledge them, so that's wrong. But more importantly, I have several other 64-bit applications (TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5, TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, etc) that recognizes and perfectly encodes any video at all into avi containers with any and all versions of DivX (including v8 and v10) perfectly!

No, the fault, dear RobertOZ, lies not in ourselves or in 32-bit limitations, but rather in Corel's lousy developers!

[Hser7]

"I primarily use VideoStudio to re-encode videos in DivX format to save space on my hard drive as well as make it easier to upload videos to YouTube or Dropbox."
You don't need VSX7 ultimate for this, there are dozens of video converters that will do so much better and faster.

True, if the only thing you want DivX to do is to encode a smaller output file, there are lots and lots of excellent alternatives. However, few people seek DivX for that reason, at least in recent years. Instead, what I and many others want to encode into DivX for is for the maximum-CPU-count GPU-assisted, extremely high-quality output, parallel processing that it -- more than most any other codec -- amazingly provides! In such cases, the output file sizes are quite a bit larger than average rather than smaller.

And while it's also true that some of the H.264/mp4 encoders as well as other lossless encoders out there will produce high-definition, high-quality output files, almost none of them will produce standard DVD/MPEG-2 frame-sized output (i.e., 720x480)! This is totally unacceptable for those of us who want to produce/master maximum quality DVDs for playing on standalone players! For this purpose, there is NO real alternative to DivX!!!

And that's why I will not buy a Corel video product again until they fix their amateurish bugs and restore DivX encoding once again.

[RobertOZ]

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My understanding of the DivX issue, is that VSX5 is 32 bit, therefore the DivX codecs are available, with VSX7, the codecs should be available in the 32 bit version but not the 64 bit version. This I believe, is an issue for DivX to resolve, try contacting DivX for advice

NOT True! First, I was actually able to find an old 64-bit version of DivX and installed it, but VS7 & VS8 still refused to acknowledge them, so that's wrong. But more importantly, I have several other 64-bit applications (TMPGEnc Authoring Works 5, TMPGEnc Video Mastering Works 5, etc) that recognizes and perfectly encodes any video at all into avi containers with any and all versions of DivX (including v8 and v10) perfectly!

No, the fault, dear RobertOZ, lies not in ourselves or in 32-bit limitations, but rather in Corel's lousy developers!

Now, are you sure of your statements, this is a response from Marcio, Technical Support Engineer DivX, Nov. 2014

" Unfortunately our codec is not currently 64 bit compatible, so you won't see the DivX option when running 64 bit versions."

Now I also have Premiere Elements, PowerDirector and Sony Movie Studio all 64 bit and none of them show 64 bit DivX codecs
DivX admit that the issue is for them to resolve

[MailmAn]

Yes, that seems to have fixed it... for now. I uninstalled the 64 bit version of Video Studio Ultimate X7 and installed the 32 bit version. I now have the DivX Codec available. Not sure when DivX will release a 64 bit version of their codec, but for the mean time now I am stuck with the 32 bit version of Video Studio and cannot use the full power of the 64 bit architecture for video editing. Kind of annoying ,but I guess I will have to live with it for now.

Thanks!