DivX to DVD media

[robomonkey]

Not sure if I'm in the right forum here, if not sorry

Say I have a DivX movie file, normally I'd convert it to SVCD on two discs and play them in a stanalone player.

Now, if I have a DVD writer, would I be best to convert the DivX to SVCD format using the highest bitrate I can, or should I convert it to DVD format, which will give better results?

I understand that the order of quality is VCD->SVCD->DVD, where does DivX at it's highest quality possible stand in this chart, and then at its average quality.

[Craig Tucker]

Convert to DVD if the source is good. Do not convert to SVCD as this is a non compliant resolution for DVD. If the source is not that great you can use (assuming ntsc) 352x480 or 352x240. remember to use 48khz for the audio. A good divx can look as good or better than DVD (depending on the divx and the dvd). It is obviously never going to be better than the source it was ripped from and as this is likely to be DVD then it will not be better quality than the original DVD, but it can be very close.

[robomonkey]

Hey thanks for help.

It's taken me ages to learn DivX to SVCD, is the process Divx to DVD difficult to learn?

[Craig Tucker]

No, if you can do SVCD, you can do DVD.

[Red96TA]

Try this:

Go to the tools setion of this site and get virtualdub.
Start virtualdub and open your avi file with it. Then do the following

Audio->Full processing mode
Audio->compression - Non (PCM)
Audio->conversion (48khz if not alreday)

File->sav wav (name this movie.wav)

When this has finished you will have a movie.wav file that is probably larger than your original avi, thats normal. Close virtualdub

Open Tmpgenc and cancel the wizard.

For your video source, select the avi file. For your audio source, select the large wav file you just created with virtualdub.
For stream type select System (video+audio), name your output file movie.mpg

Now click load and select the DVD template. If the avi file is 23.976fps or 29.976 fps select the NTSC version. If it is 25fps select the PAL version.

Click START and Encode.