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[Lehm]

I plan on eventually getting into DVD conversion. But I don't have a DVD Player in my computer right now so that will have to wait. But I would like to convert some files that I captured with my TV-Wonder Card into a smaller file size. I downloaded Xmpeg and the Divx codec, are these what I want to use? As I was going through the Divx conversion guide. I noticed that it output to an OpenDML AVI plugin. I don't have this where can I find it? Also why is everything saved with an AVI extension?

[jliudica]

If the software of you capture card leaves an AVI file, you can use TMPGenc to encode this files to MPG-1 or MPG-2. Read the TMPGenc guides in Doom9 for further information.

[Lehm]

Well it is recorded in MPEG-2. I'm getting about 10 megs per minute with decent quality @320x200. Is that the best I can do? I was hoping to get it down to around 5-7megs for each minute, I thought MPEG-4 might be able to do this. Quality doesn't have to be perfect, just look for something that's watchable.

[jliudica]

If you plan play the films in a stand alone player, Mpeg-4 is useless. To reproduce your files in your PC DivX is the best choice because you will get less than 7Mb per minute.

[Lehm]

Ok so Divx and MPEG-4 are different. I thought that Divx was a form of MPEG-4. I have tried conpressing to Divx 4.12 using Xmpeg but I must be doing something wrong. I start with a 1 minute 10 meg file. After it "compresses" I end up with 1 minute file that is 160 Megs. That just seems wrong to me. I was following the guide on this site. The only part that I changed was the output plugin cause I didn't have the right one and can't find it. I'm referring to OpenDML Avi.