DV to AVI - the best way to compress ?

[costimm]

Hello Friends,
I'm struggling to compress an hour and a half of DV capture.
It's a avi file and it's size is 19Gb. I tried DIVX but I got in troubles.
The first pass was fine, I could play it fine, it's size was 7Gb. But the second pass is producing a file of 1Gb but it's not playable.
Is there somebody that can really pull me out of my "misery" ? I tried 3-4 times by now and nothing.

The tool I used was VirtualDUB w/ DIVX 5.0 standard version.


Thanks in advance for any idea you may have!

Costi

[holistic]

What are you trying to achive here ???

Are you after 'quantity' or 'quality' ?

Compressing to Mpeg4 is a real waste of the best consumer video available. Especially whan you consider CD 's are cheap.

If you want a trade of between number of CD V's quality. Try making VCD (for compatability) or SVCD (for better quality) or simply encode to MPEG2 for computer viewing.


As far as your problem is concerned. Do you have enough drive space left to do multi pass encoding ?

Try the latest virtual dub - Pre version 1.4.8 had the following bug

BUG: Processing type-1 DV file results in bad output

[costimm]

First of all I just want to see it running. Then I can handle the quality thru the divx settings. The 1Gb file is "satisfactory" size wise but it's not valid.
I have sound but video is "black" if i play it in Virtual DUB, Media Player or other player includin the divx player tell me that it's invalid.
What is the problem ? I have no clue.

If you know a different way than DIVX please let me know. I just need to send to friends, family a cd but not a VCD( quality is too low).

I need a good way of convertion a DV file(huge) to a 1-2cd size file.
Nothing much.


Looking forward for valuable tips.

Btw. I used VirtualDUB 1.4.10

Regards,
Costi