Divx and CD-Burner Question

[FIRESTARR]

1. Is there a good or bad way of converting a DVD into a Divx? Everybody has different ways of making Divx's, i was wandering whats the best way to make Top Quilty DivX's? Can you post a link?

2. How do i compress or burn a divx movie into one 80 minute blank CD?

3. I was searching through CD Burner products, and was wandering what does "Firewire" supposed to mean?

4. Can a DVD burner burn all the extra added features? Or just the movie?

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: FIRESTARR on 2001-10-12 15:21:34 ]</font>

[vitualis]

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On 2001-10-12 15:18:06, FIRESTARR wrote:
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Two common ways are to use FlaskMPEG or DVD2AVI. DVD2AVI is faster and probably the better way for DivX. FlaskMPEG has the advantage of easy hardencoded subtitles -- but this is more of an issue of VCD and SVCD creation rather than DivX. doom9's site has excellent guides on both methods: http://www.doom9.net

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When you create your DivX AVI file, you have to set the appropriate bitrate to use. With a bitrate calculator, you can work out the settings to make it fit on one CD. To burn a DivX file to a CD is as simple as create a CD-ROM with the DivX file.

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This is a newish connector on the PC. Consider it a very fast USB port. It is used to transfer video from miniDV video cameras to the PC and vice versa. It is also used for portable hard-discs, some zip drives, etc.

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A DVD burner can burn all the extras -- but you will have to author them first.

Regards.