divx/xvid

[tyerone]

hey guys

trying to find software to make xvid/dvix files

what software is everybody using??

 

[LancelotSA]

I use Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2

Screenshot : http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=4041&cat=500

 

[boramk]

You want to make it?
Do you want a converteR?

 

[tyerone]

I use Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2

Screenshot : http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=4041&cat=500

does is give decent quality? and is it a freeware app??

 

[tyerone]

You want to make it?
Do you want a converteR?

take a dvd and make a divx file, so make a divx or avi file

 

[MrE]

Fairuse Wizard.

 

[LancelotSA]

does is give decent quality? and is it a freeware app??

You can choose the output size and hence the quality. Not freeware but it can be found online.

With Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2 you simply enter the target output size for your video file and tell the program to store it on your hard disk or burn it directly to a CD. It can read any video file that you can open with Windows Media Player®, plus unencrypted MPEG-2 (.VOB) files and QuickTime (.MOV) files. It can convert your file into one of the following formats: MPEG-4 AVI (DivX, Xvid), MPEG-2 (.VOB), MPEG-1 (.mpg), Windows Media Video 9 (.WMV) or QuickTime (.MOV).

Many video compression programs ask you to set many confusing technical parameters yourself. This often means that you have to spend a lot of time experimenting until you find the right settings to produce the results you want. Ashampoo Movie Shrink & Burn 2 can adjust all the settings for you. All you have to do is decide how big you want the output file to be - the program then automatically calculates the right settings for producing the best quality at that file size.

 

[mh348]

AutoGK is quite good.

 

[The_Techie]

I personally use Dr.DivX

 

[LazyLion]

Fairuse Wizard.

+1 FairUse Wizard is the simplest easiest way to do this!!! With Excellent results... really... don't try anything else.

 

[HavocXphere]

FairUser Wizard 2.

Use the H264 option. Takes *forever* but yields better quality than Xvid/DivX.

 

[charlie_82]

Handbreak's not too bad, and it's free

 

[Glordit]

Used to use:
DVD Shrink - to Cut DVD & take out Sub's menu's & make DVD ISO ect.
Daemon Tool's - Mout DVD Image
Simple DivX - ISO to Xvid AVI
Btw they are all free
DVD Shrink
[URL="http://www.free-codecs.com/download/SimpleDivX.htm]Simple DivX[/URL] - Although it's kind of note hosted on thier site so just google for a downoload

Could take a 4GB DVD to 1GB/600-700Mb's and have excelent qulality, but now I use .mkv & .rnvb 50/80mb files and great quilty

 

[D4N]

AutoGK with Dvd Decrypter if you want to rip Dvd to Divx and Super media converter for everything else.

 

[Gnome]

Xvid provides better quality than Divx so my vote is for xVid (last I checked). AutoGK is good but if you have some time to spare browse over to www.doom9.org and look at the Mpeg4 guides. Gordian Knot + Virtual Dub is very powerful, doubt you'd be able to beat the quality of xVid (assuming MPEG4 ASP, AVC isn't really fair)

 

[HavocXphere]

Gordian Knot + Virtual Dub is very powerful, doubt you'd be able to beat the quality of xVid

H264 beats it easily. Take a DVD and rip it into both H264 and XVid both at max quality. Then look carefully at the hair of the people and also around their heads if they move. On XVid there is a weird pixel effect around the heads if people move.

Admittedly H264 takes 3x as long....

Should have uploaded screenshot when I did that comparison.

 

[Gnome]

H264 beats it easily. Take a DVD and rip it into both H264 and XVid both at max quality. Then look carefully at the hair of the people and also around their heads if they move. On XVid there is a weird pixel effect around the heads if people move.

Admittedly H264 takes 3x as long....

Should have uploaded screenshot when I did that comparison.

H.264 is AVC (Advanced Video Coding), I was specifically referring to ASP (Advanced Simple Profile) both are part of the MPEG4 spec (check my post ).

But yeah x264 is my choice for AVC, slow encoding speeds tho

 

[Glordit]

Xvid provides better quality than Divx so my vote is for xVid (last I checked). AutoGK is good but if you have some time to spare browse over to www.doom9.org and look at the Mpeg4 guides. Gordian Knot + Virtual Dub is very powerful, doubt you'd be able to beat the quality of xVid (assuming MPEG4 ASP, AVC isn't really fair)

MP4/Mpeg4 is great aswell!

Here I have a:
53.3Mb MP4 runtime: 24:12 Resolution: 704x396
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/data//500/medium/mp4quality.jpg

or

78.2mb .rmvb runtime 24:09 Resolution: 704x369
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/data//500/medium/gundam_rmvb.jpg

Not bad quality IMO for it's lenth and size

Note quality might be a little bad due to jpeg compression, not gonna bother with a 4mb file and photobucket on my 64k connection

 

[HavocXphere]

H.264 is AVC (Advanced Video Coding), I was specifically referring to ASP (Advanced Simple Profile) both are part of the MPEG4 spec (check my post ).

But yeah x264 is my choice for AVC, slow encoding speeds tho

U lost me there...never heard of AVC/ASP. I just pick the one that looks better.

 

[HaltAndCatchFire]

I use avidemux and x264, imo, its the best implementation of H.264 spec which is actually part of the ITU, MPEG, or Moving Picture Experts Group, is responsible for the mpeg standards like Mpeg2 and 4 they collaborated on the h.264 and thus MPEG4 avc or MPEG4 layer 10, x264 is free, and so too is avidemux, it can be tricky at times to get everything to work, its not like any a drag and drop interface, it leaves some control over to the user which is why I like it, I have found that I can get better quality than some of the "easy-to-use" stuff, controls like motion search, quantization, and basic stuff like bitrate vs final size, is why I like it. doom9 has some nice tutorials on using both avidemux and x264 to encode, obviously if you intend encoding form a dvd you will need to first rip the dvd, DeCss it I use anyDvd Its payware but it is the best, you just drag and drop from explorer, then just import the decrypted vob files into avidemux...

Best thing about X264 is multi-threaded support. So if you have a dualcore machine it will encode quite fast, xvid also has some dualcore support but not as good as x264.

Very nice results, as mentioned it may take some more time to encode but it really is the next step froward, if you prefer old "MPEG4" type encodings go for xvid it is nearly perfect implementation of mpeg4 and the best by far when compared to divx and all those others...

Anyone interested in the type of quality x264 can produce and the speed at which their machines will encode, take a look at http://www.techarp.com/showarticle.aspx?artno=520 But remember that is an HD clip that is being encoded, so it may take a while longer than say a DVD. Included in the package is also a very cool HD mtv add, if you wanted to see what 720P HD looks like