plz help me with this newbie shit

[Nol Brouwer]

when i download a movie

there r files like

gladiator.avi( not ripped yet right ???? )

gladiator.divx( ripped?? )

gladiatorDvDrip.divx (ripped?? )

what r the differents between them??

thnx4all!
Robbert

[Craig Tucker]

Who can tell, they could all be exactly the same file, but just named differently.

[/quote]gladiator.avi( not ripped yet right ???? ) [/quote]
What do you mean by not ripped yet, still on the DVD ?. If this is the case how do you expect to download a piece of hardware.

Craig

[Nol Brouwer]

so no real differents between the files?
because if i download a .avi file and try to burn it on a dvd cd its too big but if i download a divx or dvd rip files its not too big..

thnx!
Robbert

[Craig Tucker]

There may be a difference, there may not. There are many different types of avi file and divx is one of them. It all depends on how much the file has been compressed, as to wheter it will fit on 1 cd or not. Anything you download of the net as an avi will be compressed in some form or another, as an uncompressed avi would be huge e.g. 720x576, 25fps uncompressed avi, a 2 hour film would be 144GB.

Craig

[Akai Rounin]

Making the Most of It...

OK, I'm not sure if I understand what you are saying, but I will attempt to translate...

When you attempt to download a movie you are presented with several choices for what may be the same film. These might be presented any number of ways, including:

gladiator_part1_divx.avi

gladiator_part2_divx.avi

gladiator_part1.avi

gladiator_part2.avi

gladiator_part1.mpg

gladiator_part2.mpg

gladiator_full.avi

gladiator_full.mov

gladiator_full.mpg

....and god knows what else, right? So, you want us to tell you, before you download the file, which are the best to use... Is that correct?

Well, that depends upon several factors, as has been noted earlier in this post. The most important of these is that you must ask yourself how you intend to use the video you download once you have it. You can save it on your hard drive or archive it on a data disc CD-R/RW for playback on your PC. You can compress the video so that one or more movies will fit on a single disc. You can edit and convert the video as needed for use on VCD authored with menus, chapters and such for use with a standalone DVD player. You can attempt to maintain the highest quality of your best download while converting it to SVCD.

Ultimately it is almost impossible for us to tell you the absolute differences between all the different video files available for download. Yes, they may all be the exact same thing, just with different names. Some may be very low resolution, barely more than 160x120 pixels at low bit rates meant for use on PocketPC devices. Others may be 640x480 to 720x576 pixels. Still others may be at varied frame rates from 15, to 24, to 30 fps. Some may be letterboxed while others are full frame and still others are cropped.

Once you decide what you want to do, download your files, then come back to VCDHelp.com to learn how to do it.

Toyoniya Hiyaku, Noromuoy!

Akai Rounin, The Cyber Sage

[Nol Brouwer]

thnx

i am just a newbie with this. Just to know if there can be differents etc.
thnx 4 all your answers
one morewhen i downloaded a movie it has good quality on my pc but if i encode it to mpg it shocks a bit how come??

thnx!
Robbert

[Big_Jit]

Depends on source movie quality and output encoding settings...