Problem with Divx 5 & 6 codecs thru AGK

[Sibi]

I'm having Divx5.2.1 and Divx 6 installed in my machine, both are original (and legal ) versions.

The quality of the final .avi encoded thru AGK seems to be having less video clarity as compared with the .avi encoded thru the other tools.

I could notice this problem recently only.

What could be the problem? any clue on this

Thanks in advance

[CWR03]

Other encoding tools, such as VirtualDubMod or Gordian Knot, or other codecs such as XviD or x.264?

[Sibi]

Thanks for the quick reply.

The other tools are DrDivx and avi.net with Divx codecs only.

I've not tried with Xvid codec.

Many thanks

[laserfan]

Hmmm, interesting question Sibi. I have only tried Divx a couple of times, but in each case, for both Divx 5.2.1 and recently 6.0, I found Divx to look frankly terrible in direct comparison to Xvid (at the same res/bitrate settings).

Your question raises the issue "might AGK be setting the Divx encoder improperly somehow" compared to other tools. I would be surprised at this, but then again I was very surprised at how very bad a "commercial" tool like Divx compares to the "home-grown" open-source encoder Xvid.