is canopus procoder good to convert video to divx or is it bad.

[mats.hogberg]

I thought I made that clear - It doesn't matter! What differentiate the various flavors of VDub is mostly what kind of input they accept. Personally, I go for VirtualDubMod - reads mpeg2 (which std VDub doesn't) and has better options for stream handling - none of which has any bearing on its ability to encode.

/Mats

[sarmin]

but if it all depends on the codec why do they say that tmpg is so slow compared to other converters. and why is winavi so fast?

[celtic_druid]

TMPGEnc has a built in MPEG encoder, also it converts internally to RGB24. When two encoders use the same divx dll for encoding, the speed is essentially the same. Only differences are in filtering/resizing.

[mats.hogberg]

Both are first and foremost an mpeg encoders. Even if both can produce AVI, I'd dare say 99.9% of all use is to encode to mpeg with these. Whatever makes WinAvi tick is beyond me, but I know that it's crap.
It's time to decide: Do you want fast encoding, or is your major concern quality?
Tried and trusted software:
mpg to AVI: AutoGK, avi.net
AVI to AVI: VirtualDub.

/Mats

[sarmin]

my biggest problem with vdub is that i can't choose the file size.

[sarmin]

divx converter vs dr. divx

[celtic_druid]

Well you could enter the filesize in a bitrate calculator, then enter that into the DivX config in VDub. If you use XviD, it has a built in calculator which you can enter the filesize.

[mats.hogberg]

divx converter vs dr. divx

Again - as long as the same codec is used when encoding, the front end for it doesn't matter.
Why don't you try it out for yourself?

/Mats

[sarmin]

ok, now i understand thx

one more thing about the xvid config. what is the best motion search precison if i'm going to make my video fit to a cd and what is motion search precison.


and min i-frame quantizer be at 1 or should i change the quantizers. and why?

[celtic_druid]

Set it to 6 and I would set the quants to 2. Quant 1's are much larger than any possible quality gain is worth. Defaults were changed from 2 to 1 to stop people complaining about undersized encodes (since the first pass is Q2, you can't have a larger 2nd pass than the first with quants capped to 2).

[sarmin]

vhq mode should i have?

and what audio codec should i use?

[celtic_druid]

VHQ1 for the first pass, 4 for the 2nd. Audio codec depends on the number of channels, container you are using. For avi, I guess go with lame -V 5 --vbr-new if you have 2 channels.