Repacking BIG DivX to not so big DivX, how?

[M L]

I have about 90 DivX files that I whant to burn but it vill take 90CDs so I whant to rezise them to put 2 files per CD.
The DivXfiles are about 40 minutes like a normal TVseries so the quality will still be good but how do I do it?

[Acaila]

Just open the first in VDub, set the encoding settings you want to use and add it to the job que. Now open each next file and just add it to the joblist, no need to change encoding settings again.

Run et voila (after a long time :) )

[M L]

Yeah, I tryed that yesterday but after 1:30minutes the outputfile was about 1GB in size so I must hav done something wrong, I dont realy know how to use Vdub.

[Acaila]

Unless you put Audio on "No Audio" VDub will put uncompressed PCM into your files. Naturally that will result in huge files.

If it's not the audio it must be the bitrate you used, what bitrate did you use? If you don't specify DivX5 as compression codec it will save uncompressed video, which is MEGA huge.

You can use this page (http://www.doom9.org/xvid-vdub.htm) for some info on how to use VDub to encode. Although it talks about XviD encoding with VDub it will tell you enough of the basics to try DivX5 by yourself.

[M L]

Like I sayed I dont realy know how to use it so I just ctrl+o and selected the file and dint find any setting so I just started saving the project F7, thath wasnt right but I had to try..
I couldnt find any settings realy..

[FactorM]

You have to select the codec in video/compression. also set video/fast recompress for faster encoding if you don't appy any filters in vdub. if you also want to reencode the audio, select the codec with audio/compression, otherwise set it to audio/direct stream copy.

[Acaila]

I was editing my post but something came up, so I only just noticed you two replied :).

[M L]

Ok, I gave it a go but I couldnt get DivX5pro to work i pormpts could not open logfile for reading and unable to start video compression error: bad format (-2).
Then I tryed divx4 and it worked but I coulnt change the reolution and when the job was done the outputfile was 176MB and the audio was ok but the picture was playing for 2secs and the stopping..

[Acaila]

Please read this (http://www.divx.com/support/guides/guide.php?gid=4) for a good guide on using VDub for DivX5 compression.

The problem you've seen with the logfile mean that you have to check the name you gave it. Most people forget to add the ".log" part (thinking the codec adds the extension on its own, which it doesn't).

[M L]

EY, thanx!!