Help Setting Up The Xvid Codec?

[justinmm2005]

I am kind of what you would call a newbie at this movie burning/ripping thing. I have these great movies on my computer they are in AVI format using the 3ivx codec, they are several peices and I wanna convert and merge them using Avone Video Converter...How do I set up the Xvid to give me the best quality but still good compression so I can use DVD Santa to convert it over to DVD format and burn it to a 4.7GB DVD-R...I wish I would of used the Xvid codec to start with, cause I have 45 movies on my computer and each one is about 3GBs ....but o well...any help would be great!!! And yes the movies are legal

[kschang]

Don't do it would be my suggestion.

The more you transcode (move from one codec to another) the more quality you will lose. XVID is a codec, and the result will be another AVI, no net gain other than maybe saving some disk space, which you dont' seem to be short on.