AVI to DivX conversion questions. Using a Radeon 64MB DDR V

[griminal]

Hello.

I'm trying to save a few movies off my Dishnet satellite.

I'm using ATI's multimedia center to capture 320x240 uncompressed AVI's. I've wiped a 46 Gig ATA100 drive, installed W2K on it and installed the VirtualDub, the Divx codec plus ATI's MMC. That's it. It's in a removable drive and I'm only going to capture video with this disk. I have 43 Gigs free which is enough room for 2-1/2 hours of uncompress AVI.

I get a great capture with this setup. When I try to convert to Divx, it looks like crap. I'm using the howto here: http://www.vcdhelp.com/avi2divx.htm.

Is this what I'm suppose to be using? Am I wasting my time capturing satellite? What am I doing wrong? I've been fighting with this for 4 days, reading all the post and info on the net I can.


HELP!!!

Griminal

[Stinky]

The default setting in some versions of the codec have low bitrates - try upping the bitare.

The default setting isn't always the best

[TwIZzlEr]

yeah, you should up the bit rate slider. I use low motion divx with the slider up to 6000 to convert my avi's to divx, and it looks great, and the file isn't that big.

[griminal]

You mean bump the 910 up to 6000?
Isn't that a little steep? What size files are you getting with a setting this high.... let's say an average 1 hr 30 min flick.

[TwIZzlEr]

Yep, the 910 up to 6000, and on audio, mpeg layer-3 44,100Hz stereo 224kBit/s... says 28Kb/s. I get about a 209 MB file of DBZ capture without commercials, 22 minutes long, dunno about longer caps tho. math wise, it looks to maybe fit on one cd : D