How do I get a HQ Burn with 700MB 4 my divx player?

[lingoguysw5]

I burned movies with Nero onto disc and the pic quality is awful when played back with my divx player , I presume that this is because it only uses 700MB for a full length movie. What can I do to perfect this on a DVD any suggestions? Thanks I will remember you all in my prayers

[xtreemkareem]

Simple Buddy - crap in, crap out. Most downlaoded movies are squished into a 700 MB file size to to allow easy dowlaods or same space. 700 M is just fine for a movie that's about 95 minutes in lenght max. any longer, it's best to split to 2 CDs. anything much longer than 3 hours should be split onto 3 CDs. Also, it's best to resize movies and make them a little smaller/crop the letterboxing in order to allocate more data per pixel. when you take a 2 hour widescreen movie with a lot of action and encode it as a 720X480 uncropped 700 MB DivX, the end result will look too much like crap. You can try applying smoothing filters to that file of yours in VirtualDub to make it look a little better, but then you will have to fully rencode it. If you have the source DVD or whatever, look at the movie length, crop/resize the video by multiples of 16 (not too much - for 2.35:1 WideScreen, 640X272 (bars cropped) is nice, for fullscreen 640X480 works). Use a Bicubic resize filter - looks less jagged than a bilinear. Use GourdianKnot to heelp you determine the best bitrate/resolution to get optimal quality. Ah, and always do AT LEAST 2 PASS ENCODE for DivX. For Higher action movies, 3 passes doesn't hurt, assuming you have the time and resources. Hope this helps.

[lingoguysw5]

Thanks for your reply but that is not quite what I meant. I have bought a divx player which allows me to watch the xvid, divx etc without doing all that encoding and virtualdub stuff, but as it stands the only draw back I have seen so far is that the quality is pretty bad. The duration is 2h.50m, so even if it means spreading the burning if u get what I mean how do I do this?

[teegee420]

2 hours 50 minutes on one 700mb cd-r?! No wonder it looks like crap! Unfortunately there's nothing you can do. If you want a better file than the one you have you're going to have to make it yourself from the original DVD. And as xtreemkareem stated, spread it over two discs. Sorry this isn't the answer you were looking for but like the old addage goes, "if you want something done right, do it yourself".