xvid to divx

[monzie]

Why not just convert the xvid directly to DVD if your nhaving problems?

Whats the point of this question..other than saving 20p/30c etc on a DVD-R? My time is worth more than the question.

[glenn71x]

What is the best way to just convert this xvid file to mpg or mpg2. Im still getting nowhere. I even tried Dr Divx and it crashes as soon as I try to open it. Nothing seems to be working to get this playing on my stand alone player. Of course it plays fine on my PC...grrrr!

[monzie]

OK. Convert the audio to MP2 @ 192 with FFMPEGGUI and convert the video using (ES Stream) using an mpeg2 encoder (I suggest using FitCD and an AVS file..then open the AVS with your encoder). Encode video (ES..m2v/mpv) Re-mux audio and video with your DVD authorer. JOB DONE. Stop effing about with xvid to divx conversions....whats the price differnce? 10p/20c if that,per blank????

[glenn71x]

Any detailed guide for this? I tried to open the xvid in tmpg and it crashed tmpg now. This file is killing me!!

[junkmalle]

Yeah, 40 of them:

https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?tools=&madeby=&formatconversionselect=AVI+to+DVD&h...or+List+Guides

[brownstem]

Junkmalle, I followed your VirtualDub instrux to the T with my similar files (awesome quality 700MB Xvids with QPEL, VBR MP3 sound--Philips 642 politely coughs, of course). The resulting .avi was about half the size, 354MB (I chose Xvid for video compression and Lame MP3 320kbps but didn't play with any other settings). The result, in my Philips, still looks great, but I'm thinking that there must be some unnecessary quality loss along the way if I ended up with a file which was half the size of the original. Are there some other specific settings in VirtualDub I can change so that I get output more closely approximating the original? Thanks.

[mats.hogberg]

320 kbps MP3 seems a huge overkill - 128 is usually "enough" even if YMMV.
As usual, when file size is a problem, (but shouldn't be in this case, as you say it looks great in your eyes, and that's what matters, right?) only bitrate is the variable. Raise the (video in this case) bitrate -> bigger file, and perhaps even greater quality.

/Mats

[brownstem]

Mats, thanks. I chose 384 since size is not an issue at all (the two Xvid files in question, together, use only about 1/3 of the capacity of a dvd-rw...). How, exactly, do I raise the bitrate? VirtualDub is a fantastic tool but not the most intuitive. There seem to be any number of options once I choose Video--Compression--Xvid. Thanks.

[MpegEncoder]

Better use VirtualDubMod or you will have sync problems due to the vbr mp3 and set the video to fast recompress not full processing.

Good call. You really on need full processing if you're using filters.

[brownstem]

Actually, I had no audio sync problem with the 354MB output file. Just wondering how, exactly, to adjust the rate so it's not shrunk down so much--somthing must be missing if the thing is so much smaller, eh?

[junkmalle]

Junkmalle, I followed your VirtualDub instrux to the T with my similar files (awesome quality 700MB Xvids with QPEL, VBR MP3 sound--Philips 642 politely coughs, of course). The resulting .avi was about half the size, 354MB (I chose Xvid for video compression and Lame MP3 320kbps but didn't play with any other settings). The result, in my Philips, still looks great, but I'm thinking that there must be some unnecessary quality loss along the way if I ended up with a file which was half the size of the original. Are there some other specific settings in VirtualDub I can change so that I get output more closely approximating the original? Thanks.

Reduce the Quantization setting to 2 or 2.5 or something else lower than the 3 I suggested earlier. The smaller the Quantization value the closer the result will be to the original (lowest possible value is 1.0) and the bigger the file will be.

And since you're not doing any video filtering you can use Fast Recompress mode which will run a little faster and get slightly better quality.

As others have noted, 320 kbps is probably overkill for MPEG audio. I usually use around 192 or 224 kbps.