Divx Question

[nick9878]

I have 6.5Gig of home video i would like to transfer to DVD.
I have a DVD recorder and have the files in both AVI and MPEG 2
I have played with TMPGenc but if you lower the frame rate then the quality of the video suffers.
Can i convert them into a Divx format and then burn them as a DVD ?
Would the file size be smaller ?
Would the quality be maintained ?
Last but not least how, what program would you suggest and is there a guide.
I would appreciate any suggestions you may have

[Craig Tucker]

Is your 6.5 gig when it is AVI or MPEG2.

What type of AVI is it, DV, uncompressed, huffy, divx is also a type of AVI.

Do not lower the framerate, if you want to reduce the size of your MPEG2 video you can lower the bitrate, this will also reduce quality but that is just a compromize you have to make. Use VBR rather than CBR encoding, this way the bitrate can be allocated more effectively.

Yes you can convert to DivX, for this you can use virtualdub. DivX can maintain excellent quality at a fraction the size of MPEG2. So you could maintain the quality whilst significantly reducing the size of the video. You could then burn this DivX video to DVD as a data disc. It would play on a PC with the divx codec installed, it would not however play in your DVD player.