Quality when ripping DVD

[Mr Walker]

I've Downloaded a few movies ripped from DVD to AVI. Filesize is about 700 meg and the quality is great. I've done some ripps to AVI myself but I never get that quality if i'm going to stay below 700meg. I usally do it by smartripper and then Flaskmpeg. Low motion and a bitrate of 1500-2000. This will look great but filesize comes to about 1,5 gig. All the movies I've downloaded is in low-motion codec. Is there any way to see what bitrate a downloaded AVI-file is done in?

Any tips????

[dimitrius]

the problem is that the sound is in PCM. I had the same problem when i started. Compress the sound to MP3 and you should fit the avi into 700meg. Try virtual dub from http://www.virtualdub.com . Open your avi in it from sound menu select full processing and select compression from the same menu. Select the mp3 codec and from file menu choose save as avi.

[Mr Walker]

The Audio is in MP3. Usually I use about 96kbits/s to keep it in stereo.

[Kdiddy]

trying reading the guides to your left about "how to convert to DivX" ...this is what the downloaded movies from the net are.