tskoda Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 i want to burn a movie onto cd. and i want movie size to be 700 MB is there a software which will enable me to compress mpeg2 to this specified size? is mpeg2 which DVBViewer makes uncompressed? will compressed video (divx?) allways have less quality? i tried to convert recorded file to divx with DVD2AVI.exe from gordianknot and image quality was allways worse than original. heres what i tried and none work: - gordian knot - avi2mpg2.exe - TMPGEnc and i read all related posts on this forum. unbelievable, i just want to compress recorded file and convert it to some standard format so i can cut it. by the way, recording RAI 2 on hotbird. when i view it doesnt play good. no recorded file from hotbird plays good. Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Hello tskoda, first of all: mpeg2 already is a compressed format - always. Otherwise it would be impossible to handle the video - too big. divx is a way to compress it even more - and more effectivly, too. But if you try to squeeze a movie with a length of 90 minutes on a 700 MByte CD, there always will be a loss of quality. Try to divide it into 2 parts on two CDs - then you might get the original quality. I did a lot of divx conversion in the last time, and I used Vidomi (freeware) with best results. You get it at http://www.vidomi.com/ It works optimally with the divx 3.11a codec. You get it from http://planetmirror.com/pub/divx/windows/d...x_3.11alpha.zip Vidomi is quite easy to use. It allows to cut the movie before converting it. You can tell Vidomi something like "Encode this movie so that I get a filesize of 699 MBytes" by using the two pass encoding option (one pass for bitrate statistics, second pass for encoding), which is quite slow, but produces very good quality. I hope this helps... Griga Quote Link to comment
tskoda Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 i tried vidomi. when i try to open mpg file recorded with some a little older version of DVBViewer it says: "Corrupt or Invalid File! Init read returned an error." even if i try to fix mpg file with dvbfix its same Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Strange - I never encountered this problem, since I used Vidomi - now for one and a half month or so. But I can't remember with which version of the DVBViewer I started recording source files for divx conversion. Maybe it's due to those odd mpeg data packets broadcasted by RAI... Does it work with the latest DVBViewer release? Griga Quote Link to comment
tskoda Posted January 2, 2003 Author Share Posted January 2, 2003 with newest version of DVBViewer (demo 1.96 R2) it doesnt work either Quote Link to comment
Griga Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 Then I just don't know... as I said: Up to now every single conversion of my DVBViewer files to divx with vidomi was succesfull. I'm sorry that it doesn't work in your case. Maybe the TV stations you record cause the problem... or the mpeg decoder in your system... did you try the Elecard decoder? Griga Quote Link to comment
Klausing Posted January 2, 2003 Share Posted January 2, 2003 "Corrupt or Invalid File! Init read returned an error."use DVD2AVI it works with these corrupt files. If you make a project you can also load this project in TMPenc as Videosource. I dont know whether this work in vidomi. Quote Link to comment
LukeITA Posted January 31, 2003 Share Posted January 31, 2003 Hello! I use: DVD2Avi to open the recorded stream and make the project, demux audio stream AviSynth as frameserver to open the project and to deinterlace, resize... VirtualDub (opening .AVS file) to compress in DivX, XViD... BeSweet to compress audio stream in MP3 or OggVorbis NanDub or VirtualDubMOD to mux video and audio (the first for .AVI, the second for .OGM). The result: simply perfect :-) bye Quote Link to comment
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