Question about settings for convert movies in divx/xvid to m4v or mp4

[Marcelo_Ramone]

Hello,

This is my first post in this community.

I'M trans coding more than 80 movies in .avi (xvid/divx+mp3/ac-3) to m4v (h264+aac) with excellent HandBrake software.
Currently I'M using two pass encoding, turbo first pass to convert and the result is a 400 MB movie h254 with 96kbs AAC audio, identical quality results.

My questions are:

Is possible to reduce MORE the file size and maintain the same quality from original divx movies?
How much I can reduce the file sizewithout loss quality?
96 kbs is good bitrate or I can reduce more using aac?
My intention is reduce the file size and do not reduce quality.
What settings do you recommend?
Thank you.-

[aedipuss]

i'd recommend not re-encoding them at all. every time you do you lose quality no matter what software you use. and if those are full length full size movies at 400mb there isn't much video quality left. but it's your eyes that have to watch them so do what you want.