tool for compressing large svcd to divx

[WAK10]

can anyone tell a good tool to use for compressing a large svcd e.g 1.3g to a small avi file?
ive tried v.dub mod but it dont compress it much.
am i doing something wrong?
THANK'S

[burdo]

Use the divx encoder

[VS]

How small of a file size do you want? I do SVCD mpeg2 files to divx via virtualdub without problems. Typically if the mpeg2 file = 1.5GB or so I can get the divx file to about 650 - 700MB using a 2 pass encode.

In the divx 5.1 codec settings I disable profiles.
set bit rate to 650 kbps
scene change = 30%
psychovisual = fast
encode as progressive, keyframes = 300
For the first pass I set performance/quality to Fastest, for the 2nd pass I set it to Standard.

My audio compression settings are Lame mp3 @ 128kbps CBR stereo.
For the first pass I don't run any audio - set virtual dub Audio options to No Audio for the first pass.

VirtualDub video filters:
resize - set to 640x480 to get the correct aspect ratio.
null - crop out the black bars if your movie is letterboxed.
I run the filters on both passes.

I've only done 3 SVCD formatted movies with the 5.1 codec and so far so good with those settings but I'm sure they can be tweaked a bit so that it runs slightly faster on my system.
I've an AMD 1800+ running at 1533Mhz and a pair of WD 80GB 7200rpm HDs and it can take up to 8 or 9 hours to do a full 2 pass encode here. Running on WinXP home and I set the virtualdub.exe process to a lower than normal priority so I can do other things while the encoding is going.

[WAK10]

thank's.
thats exactly what i wanted to know.

[bottle-necked]

You should try Dr DivX. It's probably the easiest way of getting video into DivX I've found yet.