Xvid or DivX media corruption resistance.

Hello, I am thinking about burning my DivX and Xvid files on CD-Rs. I would like to know how resistant the formats are to media corruption, that is; will my movies stop playing if some sectors get damaged? Unfortunately, I happened to buy a tower of not-so-good quality CD-Rs, and I am afraid the movies might become unwatchable if one of those CD-Rs deteriorates too quickly. I don't mind if a few frames suddenly distort, if I want quality I'll go right to the DVD. Thank you. ~Dologan EDIT: Grammar and punctuation.

That's the job of the container and the filesystem. I.e. it has got nothing to do with the codec, it depends on the container that you use (ogm has some error-restance) - but most of all you don't have to worry about it as there are multiple levels of error recognition and recovery on CD- and DVD-Rs performed by Reed-Solomon code which you don't realize (and don't need to). ;)

Well, it is more the CD format/burning speed than the container format (I would say 75% CD format, 24% burning speed and 1% container format). Burn your CDs at a lower speed and all should be fine.

As for CD-Rs: burning them at 52x will certainly cause problems, anything below 48x should be fine. And it would seem good idea no to use un-labeled no-name CD-Rs from the supermarket. Brand-names don't mean that much, but most brands (in Europe) actually use RITEK-CD-Rs which have improved very, very much in the recent years.

Thank you both for your prompt replies. While I am a newbie at video coding, I have some experience in audio coding and I had thought that, since some audio formats do have different hardiness to corruption (i.e. FLAC vs Monkey's Audio), I reckoned it might have been the same with video. Regarding the burning speed, I am well aware that high speeds, regardless of the media, tend to introduce more errors, so no, I didn't plan on burning at 52x, 48x nor 24x for that matter. Actually the computer I have the files on only has a 8x burner installed and I am too lazy to transfer many gigs to another one. Besides, I've got time. :-) As for the CD format, which apparently is so important, what do you mean by that? In case it's something I have some control on, what is the best one? Thx. ~Dologan

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