What is the best way to save AVI's to divx?

[chuckvb]

I've got a ATI-all-in-wonder vidio card and want to save tv shows to divx for replay on a laptop later. I can save in MPEG2 and AVI what is the best to save it in and what is the best way to convert them to divx?

P.s. the Guide on TV capture doesn't seem to answer my question.

Thanks

[aklendathu]

How important is the quality of the Video for you ? Also, how much free disk space have you got ? Best quality DivX requires a 2-pass encoding so you cannot capture in DivX format directly.

If your card does a good job of MPEG encoding I would suggest going for non-standard SVCD or VCD: MPEG-2 480x576 (if PAL, 480 if NTSC) at something like 3000 kbits per sec, or MPEG-1 352x576 (same note as above) at about the same bitrate. This should give you a fairly decent video quality, and you can re-encode later with 2-pass VBR to decrease the file size.

For AVI you need a lot of disk space and a good MMJPEG encoder (e.g. Morgan Multimedia or PICVideo, if your card doesn't have one). Also, you need to use a capture rate of about 3000 kBytes per second to ensure good quality at higher resolution (DVD). Then, you can re-encode the AVI to DivX - look for a guide at the doom9 site.

Pedro.

[chuckvb]

Now what program is the easiest to change MPEG2 to Divx?

[tumbar]

I don't know that much about the subject and I have only done two divx coversions, yes I'm a newbie. I used dr. divx. You can convert from files or capture. It has a wizard, I used 2 pass and the picture quality was outstanding. I'm sure I will tweak the settings as time goes by, but the default and suggested settings worked really well. Program worked great for a divx newbie like me!

regards

[BaronVlad]

Hi,

Originally posted by chuckvb
P.s. the Guide on TV capture does seem to answer my question.


yes I think so.:)

But please always rememeber: There is no "best" in general. The best way is the way that works for you in a decent quality !

If you want to capture MPEG2 which I dont recommend cause of the high compression... and want to go for DivX, the have a look at GKnot and Avisynth. to find out more you can use the DVD ripping and encoding guides on this page (it is nearly the same procedure without ripping) and the Avisynth part of the capture guide. Wilbert gives you more information about the usage of filters... in this part.

[BaronVlad]

Please dont ask any questions via PM, we have this forum to discuss !!!


chuckvb wrote on 4th June 2003 05:22:
Would it be better that I save the orginal capture to an AVI file and then convert that to divx rather than an MPEG2 file?

Thanks for the advice.


I ment capture to Huffyuv or MJPEG avi, than convert to the format you like, it is your choice, whether you want to have divx or MPEG2.

Please look into the guide, there is a little discussion about that.