What's a good program that lets you choose end file size for AVI?

[THRobinson]

I use Dr. DivX which is getting very outdated and doesn't allow choice of codecs. It does have 1 great feature though, I can add a video file and instead of choosing bitrates and framerates etc... I can tell it to convert to video into 1 file that is 300mb, or 2 files 89mb each... etc.

Basically, you pick how many files and how big and it does the rest for you.

Ever so often I will have a bunch of files to burn to DVD and the total if slightly too big so I need to reencode a file or two just to make them smaller. I'm looking for a new program but, none seem to have this feature unless I am splitting the files.

Any suggestions? The Dr. DivX replacement well, you pick 'best quality' or 'smallest size' and that's about it... if I have a 350mb file and need it to be 300mb, I just want to tell the program 'end file size = 300mb' and pick a codec and click OK.

Thanks.

Oh... and for AVI files... I know people are going to reply saying other formats are better but, boils down to the DVD Player on my TV being able to play AVI, same as my sisters and my parents so, not switching hardware, rather I'll stick with DivX/XviD instead.

[Soopafresh]

Avidemux

[THRobinson]

Took a bit to figure it out but seems a good program. Though I need to play with settings I guess... I did the 2 Pass encoding with a target file size, the original file was 350mb, I picked a final size of 300mb, and well, it came out to 370mb.

Dr. DivX was usually close to the target size, which is understandable that it's not going to be exactly 300mb, but... not sure why it's now 20mb bigger than the original and 70mb off of the expected.

Well... still seems a good program, again... I just need to play with it a while. Thanks.

[redwudz]

A two pass encode should give you a much more accurate filesize. The first pass will evaluate where the bitrate needs to be used and the second will allocate it and you should end up with a much closer file size to your target. The downside is a two pass encode will take longer.

It may have to do with your audio format, if it wasn't factored in. If you drop the finished file into MediaInfo, tree view, that should give you bitrate, and file sizes of the audio and video.

[davexnet]

Is it possible Avidemux's quoted size does not take into account the audio ?

A second possibility may be AutoGK, simple interface, good quality, accurate sizes as long as you use the version of
Xvid that comes with the Install package - version 1.2.1 (not sure why that would be).

[mark63534]

Did you try AVI Recomp yet?

[citanool]

AVI Recomp is only really ideal for re-encoding an already encoded AVI file [resulting in generational loss] which is in an incompatible format for certain standalone mpeg4-part2 players. Good choices are: AutoGK, avi.NET, or Staxrip