divx

I have a couple of scratched CDs with DivX video files. Both VLC and DivX Player were not able to play these files beyond the first corrupted frames. They tried to resume, but because the damage was too much, they did get stuck completely. But I found a player that handles most of these problems quite well: BSPlayer. It is only available for Windows though...

I needed to put a DivX movie to a CD, that would play on virtually all computers without the need to install the DivX codec or a movie player. There is software available to make this kind of CDs with nice GUIs, etc. but the software I tested is far from user-friendly. The two easiest methods are: