best codec ?

[rama]

hey people

me have a capture card (pinnacle pctv stereo) but as it does not give enough capture formats so i got virtual dub.
well vd has soo many formats that i have difficulty in choosing exactly which one is the best. some i remember are xvid ,divx 4.5 and and forgot.

well some idea would do

 

[Lrr]

divix or xvid, xvid is quickly becoming the most popular it works well and is universal, mutch easyer to play on a mack (with my experence)

 

[intercodes]

rama,

If Iam right, Dr.Divx has a capture option. You can capture your vids and convert to DivX using the same application. I couldnt find a software better than Dr.Divx for backing up and converting Dvd's to Divx.
Yeah, DivX is the best codec so far in the digital video revolution.!

 

[horndude]

hey intercodes, try mplayer, theyve got a windows version as well as linux, it plays anything and also rips/decodes/encodes video and audio, and its free

 

[intercodes]

horndude,

try mplayer, theyve got a windows version as well as linux

Yay, thanks horndude. I already have that player for my FC3. Its amazing. But i never knew it could convert files to Divx. Lemme try that. And I suggested Dr.divx, cuz he needed to capture vids and convert, which i guess, mplayer cant do/

 

[horndude]

mplayer can do lots of neat stuff, do a "man mplayer" and read the docs, printed out its about 50 pages to print do: man mplayer | col -b | lp

for example, want to rip a dvd into divx you'd this just for a simple example:

mencoder dvd://1 -oac mp3lame -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:vhq:vqmin=2:vbitrate=900 -o <yourfilename.avi>

that will give you a divx copy in whatever scale the dvd is written with, you can also rescale it to be smaller or bigger and crop the image, lots of options, mencoder does decoding/encoding and is part of the mplayer package

 

[intercodes]

horndude,

Whoa!. Thats a big command line expression...! Lemme try that. Thanks horn. But i got 2 problems with my DVD drive. One is DVD's are not mounting [CD's work] and when I start Xcdroast, it says
" No cd-rom or cd-writer detected.FOR ATAPI/IDE drives under linux you have to enable scsi emulation in the kernel inorder to activate them"

Maybe i should start a new thread ....

 

[rama]

helloo guys

remember me

ya inter it would be better to start a new one to attract people specific to you cause.

 

[intercodes]

rama : helloo guys

remember me

ya inter it would be better to start a new one to attract people specific to you cause.

ha ha lol ..sorry! . I started a new thread... anyz, read my earlier post....