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UNICO
29th January 2004, 08:42
Hi there!

After a long time without coding any movie, it downloaded the last Divx and for my surprise I saw that the mode I use "One pass Quality mode" was not there!.... it was very usefull for me because I store the coded movies in one DVD per movie, trying to keep original quality.

Can I use the lastest DivX without having to set any bitrate? I jusst want the movie to be coded as closests as the original, without any file size constraint...

Thanks in advance!

Joan
jonny
29th January 2004, 10:04
Hi Joan
You must disable profiles to use this mode.
UNICO
30th January 2004, 09:14
Many thanks jonny
Difflam
13th February 2004, 02:37
Why not just copy the DVD as a DVD instead?
UNICO
13th February 2004, 09:22
Why not just copy the DVD as a DVD instead?

Well I don't like the DVD-Video interface. I don't like to see the best scenes of the movie rendered in the menus, for instance. I like to just double click a file and watch the damn movie. No bullshit. And using DivX, often I can burn two movies in one DVD.

Joan
Babeinternational
13th February 2004, 15:18
Well, if you just want to have the movie by itself on a DVD, why not use a re authoring software like DVDShrink ?
It would be quicker and simpler.
jonny
13th February 2004, 16:21
better quality in less space isn't enough as answer? :)
Babeinternational
14th February 2004, 09:56
Well, space is not an issue here, but speed may be one. And even if I'm a DivX fan, there still are more DVD players then DivX standalones. Theoretically when re-authoring you re encode only parts of the stream so in terms of quality you don't lose a lot. I agree DivX is a better codec, but MPEG2>MPEG2 is quicker.
jonny
16th February 2004, 01:46
Theoretically when re-authoring you re encode only parts of the stream so in terms of quality you don't lose a lot.
I agree DivX is a better codec, but MPEG2>MPEG2 is quicker.

Transcoding (i assume you refer to this) is fast, but you can't transcode everything and assume no quality degradation.
Some movies needs to be fully encoded... (depending on the encoder used, the process in this case could be not so fast)
UNICO
16th February 2004, 09:02
Well, if you just want to have the movie by itself on a DVD, why not use a re authoring software like DVDShrink ?

My target is "to have the movie with as much quality as possible", not "to have the movie by itself on a DVD". Then, the fact that I spend a DVD to store the movie is a consecuence, not an objective. It's easy to confuse consecuences and objectives.

By the way, I have read that for quality purposes, XVid migth be better than DivX... is it worth to give it a shot?

Joan
jonny
16th February 2004, 09:52
By the way, I have read that for quality purposes, XVid migth be better than DivX... is it worth to give it a shot?

Sure! ... you'll not stop after a shot ... :D