LordSmurf's XVID Guide

[Torrential]

Does anyone know when LordSmurf's XVID Guide will be available? The one at: http://www.digitalfaq.com/dvdguides/convert/virtualdub/xvid.htm

It says it discusses proper encoding ways to XVID and IVTC/De-Interlace method. I really enjoy his guides and am looking forward to this one. Thank you LS!

[steveryan]

It will be available on 23/04/06, all credit to the lad.

[Marvingj]

Lordsmurf always have a way writing. I'm looking forward to it too. Maybe he'll come up with some neat short cuts.

[lordsmurf]

I know this is an ancient post, but I never really liked XVID. My interest in video is also purpose-based.

1 -- For the best quality, mail DVDs to others.
2 -- For convenient quality instantly, we had a problem for a while.

For a while there, all we had was RealMedia (yuck!), WMV (bleh!), QuickTime (nope!), Divx ($$!) and XVID (okay). It made for a great download format, but back in 2005, nobody knew what they were doing (some still do not), and software wasn't all that great. I decided to just wait it out.

FlashVideo was pretty decent, but the pre-CMS scripting was hell. We now have plugins for most major CMS and forums, which is nice. But FLV wasn't all that hot either sometimes.

Flash forward to 2009, about three years since this post was written.

These days, I'm working heavily with H.264 streaming tech, FLV for "low quality" streams. The problem here is freeware is still sort of awful (SUPER is about as good as it gets, but it still sucks). For a good H.264 stream, you need $$$ or $$$$ commercial software (MainConcept Reference, Adobe Premiere CS3/CS4 -- I don't like Sorenson Squeeze at all).

After 2-3 years of limited writing, I've started to write new guides again. I may address the topic of IVTC+interlace completely separate in its own guide, instead of tying it to a format or process.