DivX3 to DivX5/Xvid Conversion

[r3mix]

I have a standalone MPEG4 player for my TV and the firmware doesn't support DivX3 properly yet so I have quite a lot of AVIs to convert to DivX5/Xvid to get them playable.

I am in no rush with these but i do have quite a lot to covert so if anyone has any suggested programs or settings to use in DivX/Xvid to preserve quality I would really appreciate it.

I have used Dr DivX on a few but wanted to know if theres any other method and how they would compare for keeping quality and audio sync. I know that converting always loses quality but was wondering if extracting to uncompressed avi+wav before re-encoding would have any benefit.

Thanks for any assistance.

[r3mix]

anybody ?

[mats.hogberg]

wondering if extracting to uncompressed avi+wav before re-encoding would have any benefit.

No. None at all. Just HDD space and time consuming. Extracting to uncompressed is exactly what the encoder does (frame by frame) before encoding it again. I don't think it matters much what tool you use, as all use the same codec, and that's where the work is done. What matters is what front gives you most freedom to tune the encoding parameters...

/Mats

[boroda]

It seems that re-encoding DivX 3 with Dr. DivX is pretty much is good as it gets. I didn't notice any quality loss the few times I did it myself.

If you player is LiteOn-2001/2, chances are it will play the DivX 3 as it is. If it freezes or loses sound or picture, you should re-encode. This player does seem to have better luck playing DivX 5 with MP3 sound than anything else.

I also tried re-encoding XviD movies with Dr. DivX (I needed to add permanent subtitles to the movie), and there the quality loss was really noticeable. The quality was significantly better when I re-encoded into XviD using VirtualDubMod (using a subtitle filter).