From VHS (probably) to divx

[Fubarian]

Here's the deal. I'm going to be in a news report soon for some work I did (hehe nothing illegal! I promise) and I want to take that and put it to cd for my resume. I have a TV tuner (hauppauge capture card) and can create a big honkin AVI with no problem, but I have NO CLUE on how to encode it to divx. Its also possible we might send this out to approx 200 facilties so its gotta be hella good quality.

Show me the way

[NooNoo]

www.vcdhelp.com

divx is ok... but you might do better to create mpeg2 at full dv quality if its not gonna be distributed on the net.

35 mins at full quality on a cd.

[Fubarian]

I was hoping to put them on those little 180m cds, be easier to hand out

[ilovetheusers]

Since Divx requires a download of a file from a website and an install (you could include it on the cd though) it is going to cause questions from the people as well as putting them off from using it should they not know what it is.

I would recomend converting it to some other format that might use a M$ codec that it can easily get and plug into something Media Player 6.4 that almost everyone has. The codecs will download and load automaticaly through the player. Also, remember, just because it plays on your XP machine with MP 8-9 with Divx5.2 does not mean it will play on someone elses machine.

I have stuck with converting to WMV format for Windows Media Player and have tried to avoid using any codecs during capture of video initailly. The broadband bitrate makes for a fairly decent picture (not DVD quality but good) that easily fits on small CD's.

Good luck whatever you do.