File size about 200 megs too small in DivX 3.11

[chilledinsanity]

Hey, I'm having an encoding issue. Gordian Knot was working fine for a while, but now my file sizes are coming up too small. I rip to 2 discs and keep the surround sound using dual mp3's and Semi's DirectSound3D filter, so this usually means that my video data comes to about 1.2+ gigs. Right now I'm ripping X-Men and I'm lucky to break 1 gig. I'm not sure what's going on, I've tried unchecking the "recalculate bitrate" box, but it didn't help much. This also happened in my Ghost in the Shell rip, but I just ignored it since there were a lot of still frames, I thought it just maxed out or something. There's plenty going on visually in X-Men and I'd like to maximize my space. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong? Thanks in advance.

[Migsan76]

You made the compressibily check? If you have a high value like 75% or higher this mean that the movie is very compressibility and that will be a little under filesize. To maximize your CD's then you could put a higher resolution, or just any special features that come in DVD.

In the case of X-Men, i think that compress very well.

[Razor04]

X-Men compresses very well. I recently did it and did the same thing. I was unable to get it to fit on 2 cds with 192kbit ABR audio and at 640x272 resolution. I ended up reducing the audio to 128kbit ABR and leaving the resolution the same. The rip came out excellent and is one of my best rips ever. I should have run a a compressiblility check in the first place, so that I could have saved the time of re-encoding the whole movie. It may be a pain to run it, but in the end it is worth it if you are going to have problems like this.

[chilledinsanity]

Wow, it seems that in order to get my compressionability check to go below 100%, I have to increase the resolution beyond 720x304. Does that even make sense? Since DVD resolution is 720x480 is this just wasted space?

[diji1]

I have to increase the resolution beyond 720x304. Does that even make sense? Since DVD resolution is 720x480 is this just wasted space?

'owdy and basically ur right, it is wasted space - the quality will not get any better - u could go for 800*xxx to get the ( very )small increase in quality that happens by having a divx res that is a multiple of ur monitor res tho.

u could manually encode in nandub and just use max divx settings - that will probably give u higher quality video - or use the ac3 track without converting to another format.

[Razor04]

I would try encoding it as 128 audio and 1cd. This was a movie that I really wanted to have as 2 cds, but in the end it just wasn't possible. I am very pleased with the results of my single cd and you probably will be too. If it absolutely must be 2 cds, then I would add in an ac3 track encode at 720x? or do dual audio.

[chilledinsanity]

Wow, thanks for clearing it up for me. I think I'll go with the Nandub approach and do some still comparisons. The only reason I haven't used more Nandub is the size estimations have been horrific with me :)

[chilledinsanity]

I like the dual-audio approach better than the AC3 because getting AC3 to work in surround gave me absolute hell and I only have 4 speakers anyway, so I'm wasting space by not mixing in the center channel. If it wasn't for the fact that I'm infatuated with surround sound, I probably would do the 1-CD rip method.

[diji1]

The only reason I haven't used more Nandub is the size estimations have been horrific with me

lol, ur not the only one :). it'd be a good movie to play around with setting though thru nandub though as ur may not reach 1400 meg anyway.