Need recommendations for archiving large vids into CDRs. TIA

[roadster3043]

Greetings.

Lets say I have a video which is 18.3GB more or less. I have done the converting to DVD or any other format, etc.

What can I do to archive that original video to be saved on a CDR, in which the video doesn't take too much space, the resolution can be lower(352x240), the original won't be used again for converting to DVD, and the archived video would be only viewed on the computer.

What codec and codec settings do you recommend to be used in virtualdub?


Thank you.

[reboot]

How many CDR's do you want to use?

[roadster3043]

Greetings.

If possible, one CDR per movie, or maybe several movies per CDR.

TIA

[bottle-necked]

How about Divx? divx.com offers both the codec and a packaged encoder called Dr Divx. The codec can be used in a program like VirtualDub with excellent results but is not as simple as using their encoder application "Dr Divx". In it most setting are automatic but the use can modify any to suit special needs. Very simple. The codec alone is not as simple but can be learned fairly easily with some reading and experimentation.

You can easily fit a full length movie on a single CD-R with excellent quality.

Hope this helps
Good luck.

[sacajaweeda]

Try Divx or Xvid. Good luck!

[roadster3043]

Should I use the standard settings on Divx or Xvid?

Or do you recommend a particular setting?


TIA

[bottle-necked]

I think Divx defaults to like 780kbps. To get a 2 hour movie on 1 CD-R you might need like 600k depending on your audio bitrate. Downloading a good bitrate calculator will help you.

2 pass will produce a higher quality video at a given bitrate but will take longer to encode. I use 2 pass at my calculated bitrate/time. Generally 600-1000kbps.

At 780k (default) and 128k audio you can get about 01:45:00 on 1 CD-R. At 600k and 128k audio you can get around 02:10:00 on 1 CD-R. (Give or take a few MB. )

Questions like you have is why I mentioned Dr Divx. It is the easiest to use and is a pretty good way to learn what settings to use.

Good luck.

[roadster3043]

Thank you bottle-necked.

I like fiddling around with software(specially freeware), so you might say I like things a bit challenging.

I'm going to try those settings, and also try Dr Divx.

Thank you again.

[bottle-necked]

"Freeware" : Divx PRO codec 'adware' I think it installs Gator with it. doom9.com forum has a nice 'Sticky' post in their DivX section you need to read about Gator spyware. It is worth your time to read.

Good luck and have fun.

[jimmalenko]

If you have WinXP you could use Windows Movie Maker and save in WMV. I use the high quality broadband (small) template which uses VBR and on average a 2hr file is 400-500MB.

[roadster3043]

bottle-necked, thanks for the info, I will check out the sticky. I run from time to time Spybot search and destroy.


jimmalenko, thank you.

[Vejita-sama]

There are asware free verisons of divx out there. In fact you can d/load the adware free verison from the main divx url, it's called "standard divx codec". But yeah the free 'Divx pro' verison has ad ware.

Xvid is adware free if you want to doublely safe.

[mats.hogberg]

I hate to admit it (as I'm not too fond of Ahead), but for quality vs. bit rate (=file size), nothing I've seen comes even close to the ratio Nero Digital produces. Simply outstanding!

/Mats

[offline]

I have to agree with you mats.hogberg, nero digital is amazing but unless Ahead release it as a standalone codec, I'm not going to touch it with a barge pole. Many video archives are using XVID MPEG4 for nonstreaming video these days - follow the crowd I say