What is the Best Divx software?

[Tadano]

I downloaded my home video from my Sony Video Camera to my hard disk using Studio DV9 and came out with a 2.3 gigabyte AVI file. I used DivX Converter by DivXNetworks Inc. to convert to a Divx file which gave me a 88mb Divx file but the quality was very poor. Any suggestions on what I should do to get a high quality Divx file? I used TMPGEnc 3.0 Express and came out with a high quality mpg file but file size is 713MB. I have heard so much about Divx file which is highly compressed but still gave very high quality video. But why am I getting such poor quality Divx video? Thanks.

[UncasMS]

it may not be the tool that made it look poor but the final size/bitrate may just be too small/low

what is the running time of the movie or would you know the bitrate that was used?

[Tadano]

1. Using Studio DV9 to capture my home video from my Sony Video Camera, my 10 minute video came out as an AVI file with 2.3GB file size. I do not know the bit rate.

2. Using TMPGEnc 3.0 Express, I converted the above 2.3GB AVI file to a 713MB Mpg file, with image resolution of 720x470, Average video bitrate of 9200 kbits/sec. Image is high quality.

3. Using DivX converter, it just give you a choice of Home Theater or High Def quality, I tried both. Both gave me a 88MB divx file that was extremely poor quality.

Thanks for your help.

[UncasMS]

ok i see

use one of these tools:

- StaxRip
- GordianKnot
- AutoGK

the forum's search engine will surely give you a little more info

[Tadano]

Thanks so much for your help. Appreciate it greatly.

[drfsupercenter]

Dr. DivX is good too, you can get a free trial of it.

[paglamon]

Auto GK is good.So is Simple DivX.I have used the latter.Pretty happy with the result.BTW,Xvid is better than DivX.