Help with codecs. [Archive]

Mr_E

19th March 2002, 00:12

I posted a thread about converting .mov files to avi or mpg. Thank you for the replies. I dl the quicktime codec for tmpgenc and put it into the tmpgenc dir. Everything seems to work ok until the encoding starts. It stops and freezes every time after around 17 seconds. Not sure why. I found a program called RAD video tools which converts the .mov files to avi perfectly. The problem I am having is that it asks me which codec I want to use and most of them have the ability to use compression from 1 to 100. I dont know which codec is going to give me the best picture for a vcd, and I dont know which compression to use. The following are a list of the codecs it says I can use. Can someone please tell me which will give me the best quality picture for a vcd, or do I need to get a different codec? Thank you.

Full frames (uncompressed)
Cinepak Codec by Radius
Intel 4:2:0 Video V2.50
Ligos Indeo Video 3.2
Ligos Indeo Video 4.5
Ligos Indeo Video 5.11
Intel IYUV codec
Microsoft RLE
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft H.263 Video Codec
Microsoft H.261 Video Codec
VDOnet VDOWave
KS-MPEG-4 VKI Codec V1
KS-MPEG-4 VKI Codec V2
KS-MPEG-4 VKI Codec V3
True Motion RT 2.0 by Duck
Vivo H.263 Video Codec
JPGL Decompressor
Divx Codec 4.12
Divx MPEG-4 Fast motion
Divx MPEG-4 Low motion
Huffyuv V2.1.1
VFAPI Reader Codec 1.03
Intel 1.263 Video Driver 2.55.01

Bubba

19th March 2002, 15:42

Mr_E,

If I can understand you correctly. You want to do:
MOV -> Avi -> Mpeg (VCD)

Out of the items you're listing, IMHO the 2 Divx (i.e. Divx Codec 4.12 & Divx MPEG-4 Low motion) will give you the best quality.

I assume we're using the "Garbage in -> Garbage out" philosophy, and since you are not going to keep these DivX files, give them the highest quality, and thus you will better result for your VCD clips.

Good luck.
;)