Is there a conversion tool with automatic bitrate ?

[djidjo]

Hi Folks,

For those of you who have a standalone DivX player, you all know about video conversion. I've been converting many RM, Quicktime, WMV, FLV videos with VDub, MediaCoder... to the good 'ol .AVI with XVId/Mp3 and there's always the same problem : I try to encode audio and video with the same bitrate as the original, and it takes so much time to find out for each file (open it with Gordian Knot or MPC, look at the properties to find out audio and video bitrates) !
A conversion tool that would detect the original audio and video bitrates and pass it to the video and audio encoders would be so useful ! Does anyone know any ?

Thanks a lot for your replies
Djidjo

[unskinnyboy]

Not only that there is no such tool, but yours is a wrong way to go about it. Bitrate in file X encoded with codec A != Bitrate in file Y encoded with codec B. Means even if the bitrates are the same, they won't be the same in quality.

[djidjo]

Bitrate in file X encoded with codec A != Bitrate in file Y encoded with codec B. Means even if the bitrates are the same, they won't be the same in quality.

Of course, I know that, but converting RM, MOV or WMV to XVid is about the same quality since they're all MPEG4 codecs. I never encode to the same bitrate when converting to SVCD or VCD.

So no such tool ? Anyone ?
Thanks
Djidjo