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Chienworks wrote on 8/27/2002, 7:21 AM
Yes. Most any codec you install that the Windows Multimedia system recognizes will be available when you open or render.

Click Make Movie, Write your movie to file on your disk, Next, Advanced Render.
Choose Save as type as appropriate (Video for Windows .avi for DivX).
Click Custom, Video. Pull down the Video format list box and choose the codec you want to use.

There are some compatibility issues with DivX 5 but they are being worked on. For now you may wish stick with DivX 4.
the_ripper wrote on 8/27/2002, 10:23 AM
Chienworks, I tried opening an mpeg4 Divx movie in SF and it fails. The video does not match audio. In ULEAD it seems better but is still hard to break apart for smaller file chunks. Am I missing something? Again, I merely want to edit a divx movie and re-render as an SVCD. Thus far what I have done in ULEAD has shown fuzzy results. the_ripper
Grazie wrote on 8/27/2002, 11:43 AM
OOhhh, Chienworks - what Codec does VF use? I can see miro500DV when I'm creating one of my masterpieces. Should there be another codec I should be using? Hmmmmmm.....

G
Chienworks wrote on 8/27/2002, 2:23 PM
Grazie: is this when you're rendering for print-to-tape? That Miro codec strikes me as being suspicious. I would think that VideoFactory *should* be using the MS DV codec by default. Unfortunately, i don't have a clue how to specify that in VideoFactory. Maybe you need to uninstall the Miro software?
p_l wrote on 8/27/2002, 5:24 PM
the_ripper,
For what you are trying to accomplish, try using the following method, which works well if you extract the audio to WAV with VirtualDub first:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/tmpgencsvcd.htm

Extracting the audio to WAV might help in opening your video in VF too. Just substitute the newly created WAV for the original DivX (probably VBR) audio.
tommr wrote on 8/29/2002, 12:14 AM
Well the codec worked, version 5.02, but my file was HUGE. I though divix was supposed to make small files?
the_ripper wrote on 8/29/2002, 12:59 PM
Well to give some perspective here, I have Shrek on DIVX. about 90 mins, it is exactly 700.1 mg's, fits on 1 cd and is of excellent divx quality. Dont ask me how it was made, it was given to me that way. Thats my pilot for trying to learn how to split out the mpeg2 from Divx so it can play in my DVD player. Divx as you all know only plays on PC's. In fact, we should all just hook a PC with a terabyte of hard drive space up to our home theater and be done for the day with a Music and Video Library! Think of the conversion crap we could save. the_ripper
Grazie wrote on 8/29/2002, 1:32 PM
oooh I wonder if all this DVD stuff has just been a sick joke to keep us buying larger and larger HDs? Now there's a conspiracy thoery!

G
jeffy82 wrote on 8/31/2002, 6:12 AM
Tommr -
You may have forgotton to compress the audio -- Use MP3 at 48khz @ 128bitrate

The Ripper-

Ask and you shall receive! Divx Players are coming

But for TODAY, YEP, you are right on target. Just like Video on demand, but served from your own home.

I stopped wasting $$ & TIME converting to DVD, anyway, I much rather have my movies online (on HDD). Lets see with the IBM 120GB going for $140.00, That works out to about $1.00/movie to maintain online, and in case of the inevidable disaster, the movies individually backedup on CDROM at $.40 a piece.

I'm wavering between using a laptop (via ethernet for content) with wireless remote output to TV, and just playing off the computer in the other room via the ATI AIW 7500 with RF remote (full control - nice). I drag the 50ft Svideo&AudioCable for now.

Jeffy82@aol.com




Grazie wrote on 8/31/2002, 8:21 AM
Jeff - thanks for what I'd been thinking 'bout for some time now. Wireless to the TV.

G