Divx 5 Settings

[reed1374]

Can anyone tell me how to get the 'best' setting for a Divx conversion?

I looked through the bitrate calculators in the tools section and found nothing I thought would calculate Divx 5 properly.

I suppose what I am looking for is something that scans the original file and shows you what bitrate you need for a given file size and quality with quality being the most important setting.

Thanks

R

[Gazorgan]

There's no such thing.

The settings I use for a South Park capture aren't remotely related to a 1 Disk DVD encode.

Factors involved include, but aren't limited to:

1) Source quality
2) Action/Talking heads
3) Audio tracks (AC5.1 audio takes up a lot of space)
4) Animated/CGI
5) Length (2 minute clip or 3 hour movie), which often limits bitrate
6) Interlacing
7) single/multi pass
8) Quality versus size

and the list goes on.....

[reed1374]

Yes, I understand, but what is the bitrate tradeoff. I seems that I have read that the more bits you encode with, the slower your playback may be on some systems.

Is that still a relevent issue?

R

[Gazorgan]

That applies to PII and some AMD chips. You can't play a 2-disk DivX on a PII 333 in full screen. There's too much cpu processing.

If you have a 1 Ghz plus and a real hardware accelerated video card it's a non-issue. A lot fo the problems stem form post-procesing settings int eh DivX playback codec.