[Divx/Xvid] Wich settings for best quality?

[SIMPLE_THINGS]

Hi, I know that there is not an "absolute" answer to my question 'cause many depends by the source movie...

But I would like to know all the same how do you usually set ffmpegX to encode yours Divx/Xvid...

I tried all the preset available and I found that the "Xvid Mencoder" was the one which gives better results with my movie (a DV file)... But I think also that these presets are only a "point to start", and playing with filters and options I could obtain something more...

(i'm looking for maximum quality: I don't care about encoding time and size of the final movie)

thanks a lot! :P

[major]

This depends on the final playback device (computer, DVD player, etc), and on your compression requirements (you need small files, or you don't care to have big files, etc).

[SIMPLE_THINGS]

In my case the final playback device will be a standalone DVD player and I don't care to have a big files (quality it's my first need...) 'cause all the movie, that are very short (the longest is 23 min.), will be stored on DVD-R...

[major]

As DV files are interlaced, the best quality is right now obtained by exporting the video with Quicktime player in Quicktime mpeg-2 format, and then authoring the resulting MPG file to DVD.

[NancyS]

i'm looking for maximum quality: I don't care about encoding time and size of the final movie

For some .avi's I had excellent results with the mencoder DivX options High Quality or Two-pass encoding.