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WHat are some good encoding settings to make say a 1:30 hour movie 120 meg. Or maybe a 30 minute movie 50 meg. Say i wanted to take a 50 meg divx movie. Its only 22 minutes long, and encode to .mpg what woudl be the best settings. I don't want a huge ass vid u know I've got a new 128 meg cf card and i wanna watch me some movies

Depending on your quality requirements, the average meg per minute is about a buck and change, that's roughly 1.5 megs per minute in pocketPC mpg format.<br><br>Shrink your video size relatively to the bitrate. It will keep your image looking sharp, and yeild fewer visible compression boxes.<br><br>Oh, and speaking of compression boxes, since you're encoding at a low bitrate, make sure you put your motion estimation on it's highest setting. It does take longer, but it makes your mpgs look much clearer.<br><br>

ya, its a cartoon, so it should have less movement than normal anyway. But i'm rippin one at normala quality by the dvd specs. IF i like it, i'll keep if not i'll just re rip

can i just ask that  divx question again.<br><br>whats the very best quality you can get out of a divx video so it fits on a cd? i mean whats the resolution, sound quality, frame rate and stuff

well usually when i get dvd rips, or vcd's its two cds. It ends up being about 1.2 gig per movie. I got Finding Forrester at 500 meg each for 3 cds. OMG it was perfect quuality. I mean nothing at all loooked computer. It was perfect.

To answer your question Paul, you can't really say exactly how "good" you can get it right off the bat.<br><br>Depending on the motion in the movie, DivX tries to maintain the lowest bitrate it can at all times. When you adjust the quality slider, you are only defining how "low" it can go during low motion scenes. This means you've got to estimate your bitrate with a bitrate calculator, and basically do a dry run and see how much bigger or smaller you can make the final divx file. <br><br>Last modification: 999 - 06/18/01 at 14:53:31

For me, I can fit about 1 1/2 - 2 hours of movie (in divx form) on a CD.   The quality for me is just perfect and when outputting back to TV, OMG, it's almost so perfect that you can't tell it was ripped.