how could i not lose quality

[ippeikanehara]

i have couple divx movies and everytime i convert it to a svcd or vcd or any dvd svcd...the side of the movie gets cut off and the quality goes down. How can i encode it to decompressed media without getting part of the image cut off.

[Conquest10]

you could load the movie up into virtualdub and encode it to uncompressed avi. you will get a file that's about 100 gigs (not sure) and won't play on your dvd player.

[ippeikanehara]

no not only uncompressed I want a file thats burnable to cd or a dvd.

[bugster]

Any time you re-encode from one compression format to another, you are going to lose some quality. Its just a matter of minimizing that loss.

If you have a DVD burner, encode to DVD compliant mpeg-2. Use the highest bitrate that will allow the movie to fit on one disk, or even split it over two if you want.

[funkguy4]

I recently converted an XviD (very similar to DivX) movie I had to DVD compliant MPEG2 using the KDVD template from KVCD.net.

NOTE: Some (to my knowledge few) DVD players (as bugster knows) don't like MPEGs encoded using the non-standard quantizers and GOPs, and, as such, will not play MPEG2 files encoded using the KDVD template for TMPGEnc. Just to test, encode like 5 minutes of action-packed video and author it to DVD-+RW. SHOVE IT IN THERE AND LET THE 2 DO THEIR THING! (the 2 are the DVD and the player)