Converting H.264 AVI files

[Alexstarfire]

Well, I'm attempting to convert some H.264 AVI files into Divx AVI files but I'm having some serious issues. Yes I have the codecs, and no I'm not setting it up wrong. Basically everything I try makes the converted file no bigger than 14.4MB, from a 250MB compressed source file, and many make it under 10MB. I've confused. I'm using Virtual Dub, latest version, for the conversions. Any ideas?

[jagabo]

Do you see the picture in VirtualDub's source window? Is there video in your output file?

General procedure:

File -> Open Video File
Video -> Fast Recompress
Video -> Compression (select Divx and parameters, try 1-pass-quality-based, fixed quantizer 3)
File -> Save as AVI.

[Alexstarfire]

EDIT: Well nvm, just tried some different settings and it worked. Went back and tried my old settings and even that is working now. I have no idea what happened, but at least it's fixed. Very weird.


EDIT EDIT: Think I figured out what it was. When I tried it a minute ago I wasn't trimming the file and the output file size seemed normal. Second I added some trimming to it, it went back to being messed up. Ohh well.