Permanent subtitles

[Jomapil]

Good evening to everybody.

It was the first time I used VirtualDubMod to insert permanent subtitles in a TV episode with 349 MB.
I followed step by step the Guide of BALDRICK but at the end the final file has a length of only 109 MB.

Is this difference of lengths, original and final, comprehensible and acceptable? Isn't this great difference of lengths synonymous of a great loss of quality? I forgot to tell that the AVI was DIVX and I chose XVID because it didn't appear that first DIVX to select.

Thank you for your help.

[Baldrick]

The video and audio bitrate decides the output file size. So if you want bigger file size = better quality then increase the bitrate or if you are using constant quality/quantizer then lower that value.

What video encoding/bitrate settings are you using? In virtualdubmod under video->compression and xvid and click configure.

[Jomapil]

In the meanwhile I waited an answer I installed DIVX Codec and I repeated the process. With this codec already inatalled the final file has now 209 MB a little better than before.
As you asked , in this last case, the bitrate is 784 kbps and the encoding preset is 3 (this last value is fixed).

Thank you, Baldrick.

[Jomapil]

Hi there.

I followed this way Video - compression - (DIVX 6.8.5 Codec) - Configure - Bitrate (1448)

and I got I copy with 1448 kbps the same of the original.

Is this enough to get a copy with the minimum loss of quality?

Thank you and a good weak-end.