DivX with FairUse Wizard

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daveza

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Thanks to a recent thread I have finally been able to make quality avi files using FairUse Wizard. So simple I wish I had discovered it earlier !

Now, I have a few hundred movies in DivX format, all at around 1.5 Gig.

Is there a way I can get these converted to avi using FUW. I would guess I would have to first convert the divx to a format that FUW can read ?
 
daveza said:
Thanks to a recent thread I have finally been able to make quality avi files using FairUse Wizard. So simple I wish I had discovered it earlier !

Now, I have a few hundred movies in DivX format, all at around 1.5 Gig.

Is there a way I can get these converted to avi using FUW. I would guess I would have to first convert the divx to a format that FUW can read ?
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Yes. You can use virtual dub to (Save As AVI) - takes about 10 to 20 mins. Easy.
 
daveza said:
Thanks to a recent thread I have finally been able to make quality avi files using FairUse Wizard. So simple I wish I had discovered it earlier !

Now, I have a few hundred movies in DivX format, all at around 1.5 Gig.

Is there a way I can get these converted to avi using FUW. I would guess I would have to first convert the divx to a format that FUW can read ?
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FairUseWizard rips to XviD (which is the open source equivalent of DivX), so I wouldn't bother changing the DivX files. I have movies on my MviX player that I ripped with FairUse and some that I downloaded in DivX format. There is no difference between them, they play the same.

But if you really want to re-encode them to a smaller format you are going to need a program like Windows Media Recorder or ZCVideoConverter.

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/top-free-media-converters-for-windows/
 
Let me clarify - previously I used Dr Divx to convert which gave me a movie in Divx format - around 1.5 Gig .

Now that I can make 750MB avi files with FUW with the same picture quality
, I want to convert my existing DivX files to 750Mb avi - to make more space on the Mvix.
 
FUW does rip to XviD. That's what I always do. I never bother ripping to DivX.
Anyway, seems like you need a converter. You can try MediaCoder and AutoGK as well. A paid solution would be better, such as TMPGENC. That stuff is the schit!
 
daveza said:
Let me clarify - previously I used Dr Divx to convert which gave me a movie in Divx format - around 1.5 Gig .

Now that I can make 750MB avi files with FUW with the same picture quality
, I want to convert my existing DivX files to 750Mb avi - to make more space on the Mvix.
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Ja, look at the link I gave you for some good free transcoders. Should be able to do what you want. If you don't come right let me know.
 
Thanks - will check them out.

While I have you on the line.... how best do I join two avi files ( movie part 1 and movie part 2 ) ?
 
Yeah, virtualdub or nanbub will combine videos and it does it pretty darn quickly and efficiently as well. Great little apps.
 
copy /b VTS_01_1.VOB VTS_01_2.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB VTS_01_3.VOB output.VOB

I use the above in dos with success for VOB file. Should work with any other file.
 
Isnt DivX format actually avi, avi being the extension used to read the file

And arent u suppose to specify the file size when you ripping the movie.
 
RedhotNeo said:
Isnt DivX format actually avi, avi being the extension used to read the file

And arent u suppose to specify the file size when you ripping the movie.
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The DivX codec most commonly use the AVI container (same with XviD). I'm not sure which other container files they will work with. Just stick with AVI since most DVD players and DivX players expect an AVI file.

@Merc. the DivX extensions you see on files encoded by the official DivX codec are actually also just AVI files. They put the DIVX extension on them so they would always play in the included DivX player, but you can safely rename all of them back to AVI and they will play just fine.

DivX is the codec used to encode the file, AVI is the container file. You can have an AVI file that is not encoded with DivX (will be much larger in size). When you play a DivX encoded AVI file it makes a system call to the DivX decoder DLL which then decodes on the fly for you (and checks for updates to the DivX software).
 
Feedback:

Used Media Code to convert a Dr Divx .divx file.

Original size: 1,6 Mb

After converting to avi - 826 Mb

No quality loss noted.
 
Garyvdh said:
The DivX codec most commonly use the AVI container (same with XviD). I'm not sure which other container files they will work with. Just stick with AVI since most DVD players and DivX players expect an AVI file.

@Merc. the DivX extensions you see on files encoded by the official DivX codec are actually also just AVI files. They put the DIVX extension on them so they would always play in the included DivX player, but you can safely rename all of them back to AVI and they will play just fine.

DivX is the codec used to encode the file, AVI is the container file. You can have an AVI file that is not encoded with DivX (will be much larger in size). When you play a DivX encoded AVI file it makes a system call to the DivX decoder DLL which then decodes on the fly for you (and checks for updates to the DivX software).
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Aah ok :)
 
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