Divx

[FIRESTARR]

I've been thinking about renting DVD's and converting the movies into DIVX's.But, since I've been hearing about DVD Burners coming into play, you think it's a good idea to wait and be patient?

[VideoBoy]

That's a good choice (wait and be patient), although not necessary !!!

You can start archiving your home videos in Divx format in DVD quality to fit approx 30 to 33 minutes of video on each 650MB CD-R (with MP3 audio). And that too in full resolution !! Not bad, is it ? And then later when DVD burners will start selling for < $200 and DVD-Rs for dimes (or nickels), then you can convert your Divx videos into MPEG2. There will be no loss of quality.

This is what I am doing these days. I am converting my DV home videos in Divx at 2500 KBPS at full resolution in 2 pass encoding mode. As an experiment, I converted the originals into MPEG2 and then the its Divx copy into MPEG2 with same parameters. And guess what ? the two MPEGs had idecal quality. My bare eyes could not notice any difference.

[FIRESTARR]

Just wandering why you have to split the movie in 30 minutes each? Can't you fit the whole DIvx file into one black cd?One of my friends has loads of DIvx's and he just burned the WHOLE movie onto the cd.

[FIRESTARR]

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[thxkid]

you will be waiting a long time for DVD-R' blanks to get less than $5.
I see in one year DVD-R recorders at $299 and the blanks for $5-$7. Another 2-3 years, if hollywood don't get their claws into it(like Audio stand a lone) DVD-R recorders at $150 and blanks $2-3.
And full resoultion of divx is 6000, 100% crisp and I get 560MB at that rate in 40minutes.
I might save my raw footage at divx but I am not gonna wait around of what may or may not come around, so I go ahead and encode my divx to either VCD's or SVCD's at 2520 bitrate so I can enjoy now and not wiat years down the road for something thats not even here yet.

[Topy44]

...and besides that, you might aswell write your divx'es to a dvdr when they got cheap... imagine having 10+ hours on a disc

[nightwing7]

FIRESTAR, Divx movies that fit on 1 cd are highly compressed and resloution is lost, dont get me wrong they still look amazing. The divx size that fits 30 min on one disc is at full resloution and has a lower compression ratio. The one ur friend has is at a higher compression ratio, thats why it fits one cd, and it is not as good as the original dvd but still looks good