Best codec??? U tell me!

[heerowing0]

i have a 80 min high motion and moderetly bright movie to capture. which codec is best? and what setting do u use?

sizedivx 4 low motion)
i got a ok quality
about 800meg total
but the sound is out of sync

quality: Huvy
Perfect sound and quality
but 45 gig file size

give me your suggestions and the setting u used!
and please, keep the codecs freeware, im broke!

[Dman65]

Which DivX CODEC did you use? Unless you have a fast computer don't use the 4.0 version, instead use the 3.11 version or find a copy of the MS MPEG4V2 that was created before they starting locking out AVI capture.

What resolution are you capturing from? If you are capturing 320x240, use the low motion codec or MS MPEG4V2. If you are capturing larger than the 320x240 for example 640x480 then use the fast motion DivX or MS MPEG4V3.

I use the MS MPEG4V2 to capture sattelite TV broadcasts and I play them back on my 46" projection tv and the picture is okay. I set the bitrate slider to about 4200. I tried a couple of those captures down below a thousand. I guess it may look ok on a 4" LCD screen, but on my 46" TV no way.

I don't know why your sound is out of synch. I have not had a problem with that, but I select the "synch to sound card" function so the sound card's clock sets the timing. Do far this always keeps my sound and video in synch.

[VideoBoy]

No offence please, but Divx 3.11 is one of the most stupid products (although good quality) that I know of. This stupid codec forces to choose between high motion and low motion, how the hell can you do that ? How many times you get a clip that has only low motion (or only high motion). A video clip is combination of both and the codec must be smart enough to get the best of both. Now of course there are workarounds for these (such as nandub) but they are pretty much for pros. Not very easy to understand and achieve.

Which is why I think Divx4 is a truely practical and high quality codec. And given the fact that it support 2-pass variable encoding, it is THE PERFECT codec. Of course, it still does have some bugs, but nothing serious. We can live with them very well.

Last night I encoded 140min movie at 600kb 2-pass and then muxed it with mp3 VBR sound (using virtualdub) and the output is 675MB (the sound is about 100MB, so the video part is about 575MB). Ready to burn on 700mb disk, with good quality. At 1200kbps 2-pass, I get near DVD quality for double the size (which is very much acceptable for near DVD quality). Takes total 18 hours (for both the passes) on my P3 667MHz/256MB RAM.


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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: VideoBoy on 2001-08-31 08:11:33 ]</font>

[heerowing0]

I have a PII 500 and 128 meg of ram and i can capture
ms mpeg 4 perfectly clear and loosing barely any frames!

im not complaining!

and all my tests were don on vcd standards.