Newb Question: Best MPG-->AVI method

[enthrop]

Hey,

I've been scouring the guides all over, and I'm looking to see if anyone has input on this.

I have a bunch of MPGs that have been sitting on my HD for a while now - most of them are downloaded tv episodes. I want to encode them over to divx simply for storage purposes - I can't afford to make 1 VCD per episode, I want to try to get 3 episodes on DIVX per cd.

I use to do a lot of encoding (about a year ago, maybe more) and I would always Nandub everything. (So I would load the MPGs into Nandub and 2 pass it away...)

But it's been a long time, I no longer am as 'fluent' as I use to be w/ Nandub, and I've noticed a lot of new software, or updated software, out.

The guide I found (VCD --> DIVX) uses VirtualDub, and I'm looking to get 2 pass divx3 if at all possible, which VD doesn't support (unless they changed that too..)

So I was just wondering what suggestions might be out there.. any specific software? Method? Steps?

Thanks.

[auenf]

what your asking is for avi encoding, not mpeg encoding (this forum is mpeg encoding).

head on over http://forum.doom9.org/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=17

Enf...

[Panzerfather]

You can maybe used the MPEG Mediator (Special Edition) fpr our proposal ! :D´

Or take a look at the "Encoder comparison" at the side ! :)

[kaitsuburi]

@enthrop--

Have a look at the SVCD-to-DIVX guide here (http://www.doom9.org/svcd2divx.htm).

I am not 100% sure the technique applies to both VCD and SVCD, but it's worth a try. After you create a .d2v file with DVD2AVI, you are set to go, the procedure is identical to a dvd-rip. Do the audio in BeSweet (DVD2AVI demuxes it for you), saving to mp3/ogg. Just make sure you crop using Gordian Knot to get the correct crop values.

-kaitsuburi