What the???

[kashmir_singh]

Hi peps

I've just watched 'the Italian job (new version)' recorded as 2 avi files each just under 750Mb. The quality was excellent (barely different from DvD) on my 150cm TV. The sound was good as well, digital surround.

The question HOW? I know stripping redundant streams blah blah reduces the size to probably 5Gb but to then reduce the size to a fifth with little quality loss is amazing. I've used DvDShrik and it won;t do this level in one pass adn mulitiple passes will deteriate quality.

It's obviously one of the Avi codecs or something but which one?

Thanks

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[lgh529]

Sounds like a Divx movie to me.

[kashmir_singh]

Would that have an avi extension?

[ZippyP.]

Avi's can be made using any number of codecs including divx. Gspot or Avicodec will identify the codecs used in an avi file.

[kashmir_singh]

Thanks for the GSpot link.

It's coming up as XVid. Interestingly it's saying the codex is not installed on my PC, athough the movie plays fine?

Thanks again

[Faustus]

I'm not real up to date with Xvid, but if its like the current Divx its based on MPEG4, it has WAY better compression then DVD (Mpeg2) does. Also its compression can be tweaked out alot because its not playing on a player with a specific standard to meet.

Sadly I have to bad you now, please don't discuss the playing or downloading of pirated movies on the forum.