How to make a 700+ MB DivX fit into a CD ?

[Jh00]

Hi there.

Although there is another post (<a href="http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?threadid=197">re-encoding Divx for a smaller size</a> ) about this subject, I still could not answer my question : How can I reduce a 700+ Mb DivX to fit into a CD.


In my research I came accross this tip:

Ever had that annoying problem with ripped movies that don't fit onto a 650-700mb disc? There is a solution: Download the Windows Media encoder: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...ad/default.asp
Then get the WM8Gui
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/wm8enc_gui.html

Install Windows Media encoder first, then just select avi length and run the encoder. The VBR setting seems to work the best as I can see no loss in quality but the file size of the avi dropped from 730mb to 534mb! The avis are encoded into Windows wmv format and so will play extremely well with their Mediaplayer but skip and jump with some 3rd party players like GlobalDivx player. Easy fix just use the Mediaplayer to play them.
Only down side is it takes over 4 hours to do a single movie with my 700 Duron. Your milage may vary with a faster cpu but if you let it work while you sleep it doesn't matter.

However, I still want to encode my "reduced movie" in DivX.

I'm a little newbie on this enconding stuff and I played with virtual dub only once. I would be very grateful if someone could point me exactly what to do, which options to choose, in order to achieve a smaller file with not much loss of quality.

Thanks for your attention.

Jh00

[benderman]

The thing with "reencode with wm8enc" is not really good. If you reencode an avi with the same codec and same bitrate it normaly resultes in a smaller size and lower quality. Reencoding always means a lower quality.
If you want to reduce the filesize the easiest way ist to cut of the intro and the credits and re-encode the sound with a lower bitrate. If you only need to reduce by a few mb then it might help to only reencode the end-credits with a very low bitrate (like 200-300 kbit).