Video Editing, an observation and a guide

***Zardon*** · Jan 2, 2004, 12:03 PM

Our video editing/encoding forum has been quite active lately and its pushed me back into an old hobby of mine, which was ripping DVDS (my own might I add), and playing with various codecs in Virtualdub. My results have been in a nutshell that the new Divx 5.11 codec gives a great result but is quite slow encoding. This leads me onto XVID ive been amazed just how good some of my conversions have been and how fast the encoding process is.

Now I dont profess to be any expert on this subject but I can see with my own eyes what looks good, so after discussing this online with a good friend of mine who is much more experienced than me, he pointed me to This guide which in some ways backs up my findings.

I suggest if you are anyway interested in this, to check out that guide, it makes for educational and informative reading !

brc64 · Jan 2, 2004, 12:29 PM

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Originally posted by Zardon
Our video editing/encoding forum has been quite active lately and its pushed me back into an old hobby of mine, which was ripping DVDS (my own might I add), and playing with various codecs in Virtualdub. My results have been in a nutshell that the new Divx 5.11 codec gives a great result but is quite slow encoding. This leads me onto XVID ive been amazed just how good some of my conversions have been and how fast the encoding process is.

Now I dont profess to be any expert on this subject but I can see with my own eyes what looks good, so after discussing this online with a good friend of mine who is much more experienced than me, he pointed me to This guide which in some ways backs up my findings.

I suggest if you are anyway interested in this, to check out that guide, it makes for education and informative reading !

I do all of my encoding in XviD, but not just because I like the quality (though that is certainly part of the reason). The main reason I like XviD is because it's free. With DivX, in order to get all of the advanced encoding options, you need to have DivX Pro (which either costs money, or requires you to install spyware on your computer). Real has a pretty nice codec, but it's also proprietary, and nowhere near as universal as DivX/XviD. I haven't tried anything with 3ivx yet, though... it looks interesting.

- Me

***Zardon*** · Jan 2, 2004, 12:57 PM

my results with 3ivx were pretty mixed, sometimes fantastic and sometimes quite blocky. its pretty quick too for encoding.

***Zardon*** · Jan 2, 2004, 01:08 PM

also if you guys havent already I suggest you upgrade to XviD-1.0-Beta3-26122003.exe

Vampyromaniac · Jan 2, 2004, 01:54 PM

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Originally posted by brc64
I do all of my encoding in XviD, but not just because I like the quality (though that is certainly part of the reason). The main reason I like XviD is because it's free. With DivX, in order to get all of the advanced encoding options, you need to have DivX Pro (which either costs money, or requires you to install spyware on your computer).

If you don't like the GAIN, remove it!

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19583

I stick with DivX Pro 5.0.x Good quality, good speed, everything you need
In Doom9's previous installment of their codec shoot-out, DivX 5.0.5 was faster even today's XviD 1.0 beta.
Codec shoot-out 2003 - 1st installment (XVID 1.0 speed from Zardon's link is 37.31 fps)

***Zardon*** · Jan 2, 2004, 04:19 PM

certainly seems to me that DIVX have really messed up their codec trying to get a little extra IQ from it.........

Vampyromaniac · Jan 3, 2004, 02:50 AM

sure looks like it

but at least we don't have to use 5.1