divx compression: can i save ANY arbitrary size? eg.432x231

[buzzinhornets]

I have a video in 640x320, used virtuadub to crop it some arbitrary size that I thought was fit (sumthin like 607x289) and Divx 5.05 said it could not save it... divx 3.11alpha saved it, but it was slanted video (eg. on a 45 degree angle) and in black and white with lines thru it... can I assume that divx compression needs to be in a 4:3 resolution?

eg. below is a fence with boards that should be vertical... instead they are slanted and a blank line cuts across at a 45 degree angle

[bartman]

it can be any resolution you want but the dimentions must be a multiple of 8 ( I think....)...i.e. you can have 640 or 648 but not 645.

The ratio can be whatever.....16:9, 4:3, 47:2 (although the last one might look weird, it is perfectally legal)

[buzzinhornets]

uh, you're confusing me... is the last one the only exception to the rule of 8?

[bartman]

er...there are two things to consider...the ratio and the resolution....the ratio can be whatever you want...

take a divx at 640x480. This is a 4:3 ratio which means that the width is 4 units and the height is 3 units. In this case the width is 640 (4*160) and the height is 480 (3*160). Our 'unit' in this case is 160 pixels.

47:2 is an extreme example but if we use the same unit as above (160) then we get a width:height ratio of (47*160) : (2*160) which translates as a resolution of 7520x320.

Ratio and Resolution.......when I asked hawker in Thailand "Is this a real Stussy shirt" he said to me "Same same...but different"