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i have a few downloaded movies in DivX avi files. i can fit an entire 90minute movie onto a cd. what are the best programs/settings to use to convert a 1.25mbit mpg to divx? i know that is low quality but its all right to me. I tried a 10second mpg clip to convert. The original file was 2.00mb. The divx was 2.98mb. That is larger and wasnt as good. I know im doing something wrong. What can i do?
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You have most probably set the bitrate too high. Use a bitrate calculator to estimate what bitrate you should use so that you can reach the desired filesize. You may also wish to compress the audio stream to MP3 to save space further. -
well what is the best bitrate to use? i ahve downloaded some clips of tv shows before in divx and the file size was really small and the quality was just as good as my mpeg recordingsComment
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It depends on your video, resolution- and compressibility-wise. Compressing to DivX will discard details from the video and the lower the bitrate is, more detail is lost (As you can expect from a lossy format). Your eyes will be the best judge for that. Download a bitrate calculator, input your desired filesize as, say, 1MB. Assuming you are going to be comrpessing the audio to MP3, input also the bitrate you are going to assign to it. The calculator will yield the bitrate you are to use.
If you wish to achieve the best quality, use 2-pass mode encoding as well. I can't explain everything about it here. You can, however, look for the guide from this collection of guides here.Comment
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thanks. im going to do some tests to see what i can do. Will keep you posted. Will also look through the guides.Comment
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Good luck to you and have fun.
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use fast motion!
encode to MPEG2 using TMPGENC.
then open the file encoded again in TMPGENC, encode in MPEG2 then use vidomi to convert to DIVX fast motion 6000 bitrate....near DVD or DVD quality everytime I do it
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