Kinda newbie... 800MB MPEG --> 650MB VCD/AVi

[dynamis_dk]

Hi all,

Well, I've recently joined the broadband world. A drawback (if u can call it that) is that i've started to download all the series episodes that i always wanted to have, specifically 'Dark Angel'.

I'm after a good method to convert all the downloaded episoded that are VCD's sized MPEG to decent AVI. Ideally 200 - 300 MB DivX Avi.

Could any1 give my a detailed description of who i might convert a MPEG to this required size.

NB: i have basic DVD-->AVI experience, but not much general conversion expeience.

thx, dave

[Fox Mulder]

I guess that a 200 - 300 mb DivX AVI won't be decent.
Of course, Doom9 has guides for this:
http://doom9.org/conversionguides.htm

[[Toff]]

IMHO you can do a descent conversion.
VCD resolution is low 352x288.
This is a serie so duration must be around 50 min.
You can fit 2 episodes per CD keeping a very descent quality.

[Fox Mulder]

Well, I did convert 800MB MPEGs to 200MB AVIs in the past and didn't liked the result, and because I discovered that I don't like re-encoding, and that I liked those episodes of the X-Files so much, I burned the MPEG as a VCD in one CD as the media is cheap(at least it was, here in Argentina); so it's just IMHO.

[theReal]

I tried to re-encode downloaded Futurama episodes that were VCD mpeg.

It drove me mad because in every file there were about a dozen corrupted audio frames that would prevent every program from re-encoding the files. I guess the corrupted audio frames were from downloading or ripping the VCD's, I don't know.

However, played back as mpeg or burned as VCD, you didn't notice any corrupt frames - so that's what I finally did...