Help converting captured mpeg to avi

[landru22]

I was hoping someone could give me good advice, or could direct me to a good guide, on converting captured mpeg's to avi. I capture (from tv)using my win-tv 250 in dvd quality and the resulting mpeg looks fairly good. When I convert to divx or xvid, the video looks choppy, especially motion. I am looking for the quickest way (one pass) with the best possible quality. At present, I use virtual dub (mpeg version) to convert. I de-interlace with virtual dub filters. My goal is a good quality avi file approx 350mb per half hour of video.
Thanks.

[Northstar]

Well i find Divx (if thats what your using) to be very choppy, try Xvid 1 pass quantizer and set it to 2 maybe. Im no expert in such matters but i think that should give you the result your looking for, i use similar settings but set it to 3 or 4 for smaller files, and i like the results.