DVDA 3.0b & DIVX

rjcvideo wrote on 7/28/2005, 11:39 PM

I have a 2 hour video project that I rendered out in Vegas 6 as mpeg2 that ended up being 5.7 gig. I converted it to DIVX and got it down to 1.8 gig, yet when I import it into DVDA it shows up as over 6 gig and I get the 'to big to fit to disk' warning. I can however drop the bitrate and get it well under the limit, but not sure if how much quality loss I will suffer. Is there someone who can possibly explain this for me!

Thanks in advance!

John

Comments

ScottW wrote on 7/29/2005, 6:44 AM

Converting it to DiVX doesn't buy you anything (in fact you'll likely take a quality hit) because DVDA will convert it back to MPEG-2 in order to put it on the DVD.

While some DVD Players will play DiVX, it's not an accepted standard - only MPEG-2 is accepted for video.

Use the bitrate calculator at: http://www.videohelp.com/calc.htm to determine what your average bitrate should be - for 2 hours it will be down around 4800 kb/s - so you might want to also look at 2 pass VBR encoding from Vegas for the best results.

--Scott

Cunhambebe wrote on 7/29/2005, 8:14 PM

ScottW is absolutely right. You can't burn a DVD with menus using DIVX files because only MPEG2 files are supported by all authoring applications, includding DVDA.
But you can burn a data DVD with your Divx....Most newer DVD players support DVIX nowadays (but there are no menus at all). How can you burn a data DVD? The same way you do with CDs. Get a folder and drop you DIVX movie there. Need subs? Do the same with your subs, drop them there (**.SRT files) naming them such as nameofthemovie.en.srt; nameofthemovie.fr.srt, and so on. And there's one more thing: your DIVX (I prefer XIVD :) may be muxed with an AC-3 file, or 2 or 3 AC-3s and so on....