install 2 versions of Xvid simultaneously?

[junglemike]

Hi everyone.
I am strying to solve some problem.I use Xvid in 2 different ways - 1st - to encode movies. 2nd - i capture using Xvid. I know that most of you will tell me that i better use some loseless codec for capturing like huffyuv or mjpeg. The problem i don't have much space and even if icdid, my hdd cant handle much transfer banwidth. i capture from bt848 device, in pal,768x576 res. To capture 3-4 hour show with huffyuv i will need about 50-80gb at 15mb/sec. Xvid in 1pass cbr, bitrate~5000-6000, motion serch 4 or5, none of advanced option checked gives me very good quality, i cannot tell the difference between the source.
But the problem is - after capturing i have to enter and manually change all xvid setting suitable for oncode. I have to change them all the time. So is there any way to install 2 different versions of xvid? Maybe even same version twice(only encoder itself.) This will save much time for me. I know that in Nimo codec pack(not that i use it) they did such thing. You cannot install divx5 and divx4 at the same time. But after installing Nomo - you can see both codecs installed. So can i do such thing with Xvid?
Thanks for any help

[TelemachusMH]

Here's (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19300&highlight=install+divx4+divx5) a thread for installing Divx4 and 5 at the same time. The process would be the same except you're using xvid.dll instead of divx.dll. There might be a few other changes too (like fourcc) so just think about it while you do it.

TelemachusMH

[junglemike]

Thanks for the info, i will try that as i get home. But i think this is not going to work. Even if i succeed to "make" 2 versions of Xvid, they both save their settings in the same place in the registry, so chenging anything in one - would change in another too (i think)

[Danzel]

If you are using the same version of Xvid and just want two different sets of settings, then you could export the registry key that xvid stores its settings it, and have two .reg files with the different sets of settings in them.

according to http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16963
the key they are stored in is HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\GNU\XviD

so, set up your Xvid for capturing, run regedit, browse to that key, registry: export.

do the same thing but set up for normal encoding.

now to set your xvid up for either you just double click the .reg file that you want the settings from and it will re-set up your xvid.

Hopefully that solves your question.

Danzel.