Hi Everyone,
Currently I'm capturing some old (and I mean old) VHS tapes that I have, and the disk space used is horrendous (no way to fit a 2 hour movie on my 40gig hard disk with high quality).
From my understanding, DIVX is a codec with a lot of compression, and my originals are pretty crap quality anyway, so is it possible (or sensible) to capture directly to DIVX and then covert that to VCD/DVD? If so what would I need to do?
I'm using VDub, a Pinnacle PCTV card, TMPEGenc and a Pentium IV 1.7g with 256 RAM.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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No, DIVX is not a good capture format, the encoder is slow, and mpeg encoders used to make a VCD might have problems reading the DIVX file. The best choice is to use a MJPEG codec, which are very fast and you can compress the file 10:1 before you see artifacts. Also, MJPEG is frame independent, so you can edit on any frame.
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