Size of VirtualDub output file

[scifiguy]

I've got a few MPGs with some minor corruption. I'm using VirtualDub to smooth things out. It does the job, however, it turns a 500MB MPEG into a 50GB AVI.

Any idea why that is happening and is there a way to get the output size down?

[Cyberman]

VDub can´t save MPeg.
To filter, it has to deompress.
You didn´t told it to compress the data - so you´re getting uncompressed video.

Chose a compression.

Vdub can´t save as MPeg.

[scifiguy]

No, actually I'm using DiVx 5.2.1. I tried 5.2.0, but that crashed the system...

[stephanV]

your not using DivX as compression, its impossible to get such a large file size with DivX and a video of normal length.

tell me, what kind of pass mode are you using?

[scifiguy]

I wasn't using any compression before. I am now. Whatever I'm doing is working fine now. Thx