Divx to what

[JamesB69]

what will yield higher quality from divx? vcd or svcd?

[macleod]

really depends on the source file. As a rule of thumb, you want to encode down from the source file.

[JamesB69]

What do you mean by encode down? If you are talking about resolution, the resolution is 640x272. What would you suggest. It is a very high quality divx

[macleod]

what about bit rate? With the resolution in the divx, VCd(352x240 would give you the best results).

[Donny661]

If you have a good looking DivX then go for svcd. svcd(using a VBR method) will look better than a standard vcd(non-standard is debatable but lets not get into that) as long as your source is pretty good and you don't use an average bitrate or quality setting that's too low.

[JamesB69]

Not sure about bit rate, how do you find it for a divx file

[Craig Tucker]

Some divx can be excellent quality, if this is the case encoding to SVCD will give a better result. I have encoded some good divx files to DVD with a bitrate of 5mb/s and they look excellent.

[Craig Tucker]

Not sure about bit rate, how do you find it for a divx file

Right click on the file, click properties, them summary. The bitrate should be displayed. Remember that this is shown in kilobytes/sec and not kilobits/sec. To convert from a byte to a bit multiply by 8

[puertorican138]

What do you mean by encode down? If you are talking about resolution, the resolution is 640x272. What would you suggest. It is a very high quality divx

Resolutions like 640x272 are usually excellent quality and are usually DVD-Rips. I would recommend converting to SVCD.

[JamesB69]

104KB/s x 8= 832Kb/s sounds kind of low, but it looks great. It is not a DVD rip but a laserdisc capture.

[Craig Tucker]

That may seem low compared to VCD or SVCD, but is not low for divx. Remember that divx uses better compression techniques than mpeg, so a much lower bitrate can give excellent looking video.

[JamesB69]

So would you suggest svcd or vcd with this bitrate and resolution?

[puertorican138]

So would you suggest svcd or vcd with this bitrate and resolution?

I would suggest encoding to SVCD since you said in one of your earlier posts that your laserdisc capture was very high quality.