Quickest method for DiVx to DVD-R?

[SquareEyes]

Hi

I have ripped a few DVDs with the Robshot method and Scenarist using CCE. Everything hunky dory. I now just got my cable modem upgraded to 1MBit and to test it I downloaded a DiVx movie. Since I can't be arsed watching it on my 'puter (Athlon XP 2000+), I want to try putting it on a DVD-RW. (My standalone supports them!). I am currently following a guide on vcdhelp using tmpgenc but it is saying 4 hours+. I am wondering what the process is for using CCE to do the donkey work and if it would be quicker.

Spec of the divx movie (from file properties in Windows XP) is 544x224 pixels, audio 87kbps, audio MPEG Layer 3, 29.97fps, video 103kbps and it says it is "divxmpg4 v3".

Any help would be appreciated.

SquareEyes

:)

[Sequoyan]

CCE does not support Divx. TMPGENC is the best option.

Unless you want to buy Link2 software to frameserve with Virtualdub into CCE.

4hrs for TMPGENC is really good. I've waited 47 before.

- The Sequoyan

[SquareEyes]

Thanks for the reply. Seems to have worked OK with tmpenc. My plan was to get a couple (or more) movies on a DVD-R with a simple menu. The movie turned out at about 2GB so looking good for a couple.

[Dirkbox]

I've encoded Divx with CCE, it is an AVI file after all.

[beta-horizen]

The easiest way I've found is:

Use Avisynth, and make a AVS file:

AviSource("d:\vcd\slackers\Slackers.avi")
BicubicResize(720,380)
AddBorders(0,50,0,50)
ResampleAudio(44100)

I use this script to resize the video and add black borders to make it a 4:3 video. You can alter it to make it a 16:9, if you'd like.

Then I open the AVS file in CCE and encode according to Doom9's methods.

For the audio, I extract it with AVI2Wav, then use Winamp's Disk Writer Plugin to make it a true PCM wav file.

I;ve found I can get 2 90 min movies on one DVD-R (VBR 2 pass @ 0min, 9500max, 3000avg). Keep in mind that Divx don't usually have the high bitrates that their DVD counterparts do, so 3000 avg bitrate for the video looks fine.

[Arky]

Don't forget that if you are encoding from DivX you will be wasting your time creating full D1 MPEG2. I suggest you use your bitrate more effectively, and dispense with interpolating small Div-X frame sizes, by encoding your MPEG2 to the SIF standard (PAL = 352x288; NTSC = 352x240). This is still FULLY DVD-compliant.


Arky ;o)