Encoding DivX from TV Stream...

[KevC]

... I need to record approx 20 minutes of NTSC (... Canadian Television... I think?)

I'm planning to do video-in and to use DivX4.01 to compress...

What bitrate should I use to encode? Please help and give me steps! Thx thx!

[condone]

i'd recommend capturing the video in another format such as MPEG or, if u have the space, Uncompressed AVI. If your gonna capture in AVI be warned the filesize is HUGE and u need an NFTS partition (WinNT or Win2K, no filesize limit) b/c Win95/98/ME and such use FAT32 which has a filesize limit of 4GB. the uncompressed AVI will be HUGE, probably 10+ GB for 20 mins of video, so i'd recommend the MPEG capture, but its your choice and both will produce good-great quality video. from here u can encode the MPEG/AVI into a DivX AVI. it is recommended capping to another format first b/c directly capping to DivX requires LOTS of CPU power and can sometimes not produce the best quality. hope this helped.

[KevC]

Helped a bit, thanx! But I'm concerned about which bitrate would be a good choice (VBR/CBR) for TV Streams? Comparable Quality for a low size? Please and thank you!

[thxkid]

I use Kristol Studio MV3 Divx avi, have crispness set at
100% and bitrate all the way at 6000, I get a 30 to 1 compression and set the res at 352x240, I get a great looking AVI and at 40min. I just used 560MB of hard disk space.
But its a CPU eater, I have a 1.2 thunderbird running at 266 bus speed with 512 megs of 133 SDRAM and when using Virtualdub to capture the DIVX AVI I am using anywhere from 40-55% CPU useage.
I then encode with TMPGE with CBR at anywhere from 2000 to 2300 bitrate I get a good looking XVCD.