Converting MKV to AVI (XviD - 2 pass)

[tonemgub]

Hi. I'm trying to convert a video in mkv to avi with XviD. I found two programs here to do it (Alltoavi and SUPER), but I couldn't figure out how to converting using XviD 2 pass compression (the video looks crappy with normal compression).
So, how can I do that?

Thanks a lot.

[killerhex]

i saw a topic similar to this one try using xvid 1st pass contant quality a value of 2 or 3 for target quantizer it shouldnt be any loss of quality virtualdubmod can import .mkv

[celtic_druid]

VirtualDubMod's mkv support is out of date. It doesn't support native AVC, VFR, etc.

Constant quant encoding does give excellent quality with a low value, however there is no real way to control filesize. If aiming for a certain size/bitrate, then 2 pass is definatly the way to go.

Never used SUPER or Alltoavi myself though. Possible that they don't offer 2 pass. Both use mencoder though right? mencoder can definatly do 2 pass XviD encoding. -xvidencopts pass=1/2

[tonemgub]

Well, finally I used dvbmenc which uses mencoder, and it worked perfectly fine. Thanks.