How do you encode to AVI and get the quality of Kazaa movies

[dishstaller]

I notice that when I download a movie from Kazaa that it is generally in AVI format. 60 min. is usually about 120-150megs. What program do they use to do this with. Any time I've ever fooled around with AVI the file size is gigantic. Just wondering, Andy

[PhArAoH]

It is called DivX (high compression & high quality codec). You can download a freeware version of the codec from www.divx.com

PhArAoH

[dishstaller]

Does this allow you to convert a mpeg file to AVI to shrink the file size. I've got this player/codec but have never noticed a "convert or encode" feature.

[PhArAoH]

With right tools (see Tools section on the left) you can convert DVD's, (S)VCD's - Mpeg, Quicktime movies, Microsoft media files, pictures, etc etc to DivX format.

In order to encode to Divx you need (on top of DivX codec) a program to do the encoding. Virtualdub is very popular and most importantly it's free.

I think this is enough to get you started...

Happy encoding.


PhArAoH