archos to dvd backup guide

[wertert]

Hi - Not sure where to post this so here goes...Please point me in the right direction if it's better suited else where. I have some .avi files that were created on a Archos video recorder. GSPOT reports them as divx files.

Divx
25 fps
Qf 0.794
320x320 ( resolution )
1524 kbps

I want to convert these and use trusty DVDLAB to author a new DVD containing a bunch of these movies. I have come up with a conversion process which uses ;

1) AVIsynth to resize the movie to 352 x 288 which I read somewhere is acceptable to alot of stand alone dvd players.
2) CCE to reencode the divx file ( via the avs script ) to MPEG2 ( 2 pass CBR 1.15 Mb/s video / 192kbps 48,000Hz audio )
3) edit out anything I don't like in MPEGVCR
4) import and author in DVDLAB

Quality is not bad and it's not great but then again the source is very small and has a low bit rate. I have kept the mpeg 2 bitrate the same as the divx bitrate.

Questions;

1) Will the target resolution of 352 x 288 give me any problems ?
2) Anyone know of any guides that cover this. I've only spent 2/3 hours on this so someone somewhere must have does it before.
All my googleing only results in guides to covert mpeg to archos ( divx ) format....
3) Is matching the two bitrates ( divx & mpeg ) a wise idea ? I want to try and preserve what quality there is.

Thanks in advance

[ppera2]

Resolution is OK, although its rarely used by DVD.
Bitrate will be enough, but you can increase it so that your material
will fill media completely. Need some bitrate calculation. For example: VCD of 80 min has capacity of aprox. 800 MB. Using same bitrates for DVD, you can place aprox 420 min on DVD-R.

You don't need MPEGVCR for cut out unwanted parts - just use trim()
function of AVISynth. Look frame numbers with Virtual Dub in AVI and
write them in AVS script, like trim(first_frame,last_frame)+trim(nexte section)+ etc. Then you will have only sequences which you wrote in script.

[wertert]

hey - Thanks. Like the trim() function - much better than uncompressing and re-compressing just to remove some useless material -