Rip a dvd ripped DivX avi to dvdr ?

[dixlon]

Hello,

I was hoping somebody can give me advice on how to rip a dvd ripped DivX avi source to a DVDr. The avi source quality is excellent and I want transfer that quality to dvdr. With the dvdr technology I have 4.7 g's to make sure I use the most bitrates as possible for the dvdr media. Can I make a dvd quality dvdr with a DivX source? Than you for your time and effort.

DixLon

[resnullius]

Ok, let's see if i got your question right. You want to make a dvd from a divx file, right? look at the convert section of the site. you can fit about 133 mins of film at a bit rate of about 4000(i'm saying this from memory...) check the authoring section of the site... boom your done.

[condone]

in answer to your other question: the quality could range from Shit to Good. some DivX's may look like shit when uncompressed to MPEG2 and otheres will look decent-good. DivX is a lossy compression, and it uses a high compression, so when you decompress, there will be quality loss (usually massive).

[dixlon]

Can I use Tempge to encode the DivX avi source to dvd to improve the quality?

DixLon

[resnullius]

you cant add quality that's been taken away by compression... You can however hope to get similar quality... divx is not a great codec for reconversion.

[dixlon]

if the orginal divx avi source is excellent quality can TEMPGe can encode the avi source into dvd form ? My goal is to watch the dvdr on my stand alone dvd player. I always thought that if you have a good source to encode the chances of success is good?

Dixlon

[Dave B]

Although the DivX avi may look great quality in your eyes, a lot of the video information will have been removed during the original encoding. This will hinder the MPEG algorithm as it trys to recompress the video into an S/VCD.

However, use TMPGEnc and give it a go.. you may be pleasently suprised.

[condone]

yah, each movie is different, i never recommend reencoding DivX, but if you want to, give it a shot.

DivX may look great to the eye, but the way it compresses is HIGHLY lossy, meaning that you can't regain quality. It looks great, but in reality it is "shit" because of the data it contains. But "to each, his own".