"vcd ready" movies on p2p

[another_green_world]

After doing the work with virtual dub and tmpge to ready a divx movie to be made into a vcd, I was wondering if it would be helpful to replace the divx movies in the shared folder with the already mpeg1 encoded ones. I know they are much bigger and would take longer to download, though. Even with more HD space than I EVER thought I would use up, I am finding that I sometimes start to get filled up (the 2nd hd, 120 gig got filled up the other night, but it was from junk files and unneeded sound wav extractions). Keeping the encoded movies, already split and vcd ready, and deleting the divx files seems a good way to store them for a while. And to share them for awhile. Please let me know if my thinking is wrong here. These are files that have gone through the encoding process with tmpge (avi to mpeg1) but have not been transferred to vcd (well, I have transferred them to vcd for my own collection). Anyway, sorry for being so long winded. I hope my question comes through somewhere in there.

[cheftaz]

I store all mine for "sharing purposes" as divx. I convert mine to svcd and usually need two discs, and after burning, delete the svcd and keep the divx. If I store as divx then people only have to download 1 file not too large instead of 2 files quite large (or 1 very large file if I join my 2 svcd files) Also in divx>avi format it gives people more options after downloading. Also it is better quality than vcd. When I search for movies for download I select ones that are dvdrip>divx. Usually near perfect quality therefore when I convert to svcd I begin with a very high quality source. Most people would prefer to download super high quality.

[another_green_world]

Thanks, that makes the most sense and that is what I will do.