Is there a converter that can match the input and output bitrates?

[aslaksen]

Hi,

I want to watch videos from my digital camera on my standalone DVD player. It seems to only accept DivX Avi, while my camera outputs mov files with audio in ADPCM mono. I've tried various converters, with mixed results. The only ones that consistently worked for me was SUPER. MediaCoder cut off a few seconds of my conversions. Format Factory converted about one second before stopping. But the Super web page is not very easy to navigate.

In order to get a good compromise between quality and file size, I check the bit rate of my mov file using MediaInfo, and I manually set the bit rate in SUPER to about the same. But this is a hassle.

Can anybody recommend a good converter that can set the bitrate for me automatically?

Thanks!

[Baldrick]

I have not seen anyone with such feature. Do you really need same size as the source? If not use constant quantizer/quality encoding mode.

[aslaksen]

Thanks for your response. I didn't find any settings for constant quantizer/quality encoding in SUPER, so I just did the naive thing of matching the bitrates. Which converters would you recommend with constant quality settings?

Thanks!

[davexnet]

Perhaps Xmedia Recode or Avidemux ?

[guns1inger]

While matching bitrates will give you an output file the same size as the input file, there is a good chance it will be of inferior quality

[aslaksen]

guns1inger, I see your point. I'm not sure if converting from AVC/MOV to Xdiv/AVI is downgrading or not, but I understand that fixing the bitrate may not guarantee the same quality.

davexnet, thanks for the Xmedia suggestion.

I just figures out how to do batch conversion in avidemux, so I just ran avidemux on them, and let it decide the bitrate. The filesize and bitrate is a bit higher, but it looks fine.

I had some problems with sound in 3gp files and indexing in mpg files, so I stuck with SUPER for those.

[guns1inger]

When converting AVC to Xvid using the same bitrate you should expect a noticeable quality drop.