Divx Codec Questions

[pohpoh]

Hey All,


I have posted a few times, I am moving my cartoon collection to DIVX for now and then eventually to DVD or SVCD (depends on when I can get a burner for DVD or not)..

Anyways
I have been experimenting with capturing in Divx in using the different Divx Codec. so far the smallest is the newset DIVX 5.02..

However obviously I can capture with DIVX MPEG 4 Low Motion or Fast Motion also..

So which of the 3 is the best to use.. I would like the best quality..
The difference seems very minute in my samples..

Also I cannot get any DIVX audio compression to work on VDUB...
So I am using MPEG Layer 3.. Is this ok? or will it hurt me down the road.. I have to get my project done soon, but the final (Burn to SVCD or DVD) part I won't have to do for a while. However once I finish these dubs my videos will be gone (I am moving and need to lose them for space concerns) so I want to make sure that whatever I do I can make a clean conversion in the future (I will store thenm on CDRs for now)..

[easydvd]

I HATE DivX......................

However,
I wouldn't suggest that you capture with DivX. Even a 3gig p4 is gonna pant trying to keep up with capture+encoding video and audio all at once.

Best results I've had with animated material converting to vcd or svcd are doing the cap with picvideo set to 19 and then filtering with avisynth to the encoder. Animation tends to get a little soft on the edges without the filtering I think.

If I understand you correctly, you are encoding to DivX as the final file format. If you are then still I would do the capture with picvideo and use v-dub to encode the DivX. MP3 audio is fine at about 128kbs constant bitrate, sounds good to me at least.....
If you don't want the grief of writing a script for avisynth you can use the filters in v-dub while you encode too. The one there that does wonders with animation is called MSharpen. Found it at the v-dub site I think....


Remember that if you convert to mpeg4 DivX now and then re-compress to mpeg 1 or 2 you are going to lose a lot of detail as well.

[tuco1979]

Why don't you encode them all as cvd (352x480) with 48khz sound so then you could switch to dvd if you want to or just keep them as cvds which most dvd players will play if they can play svcds.

[pohpoh]

tuco1979-

"Why don't you encode them all as cvd (352x480) with 48khz sound so then you could switch to dvd if you want to or just keep them as cvds which most dvd players will play if they can play svcds."

Would this be in stereo? Right now I am getting Stereo on My DIVX Caps.
Honeslty, I've never heard of a CVD maybe I should check out the man page for some info.

EasyDVD - Right now the Animation is coming out very well in 640 x 480. How much am I going to los eon a conversion to MPEG2? I would assume that soon DVD players will play MPEG4.. but my current one does not..

SO what i smy best option to get cartoons to a file format that I can eventually move to DVD?

[easydvd]

Don't hold your breath for a DVD standalone that will play mpeg4. There is a review of one elsewhere in this site, but at $400+ I think I'll stick by my $48.99 Apex 1100W....

As far as losing detail, a lot will just be from the re-compression......it's like making a copy of an audiocassette from another copy....you lose a little definition with each generation. I would just pick one format for archiving and stick with that. If you encode to divx and then again to mpeg, not only do you lose detail, but you have all that time to re-encode again, plus buying the media 2 times.......