Storing Tivo Video using DIVX

[xyombie]

I have read several posts on this message board about people using 
DIVX to store their Tivo movies. I went to DIVX.com to find more 
information about the DIVX format. According to 
http://www.divx.com/support/what.php , the DIVX codec is so advanced 
that it can reduce an MPEG-2 video to ten percent of it's original 
size.

I tried using several tools on the DIVX.com website to convert my 
Tivo Mpeg-2 movies that was created using ExtractStream and Netplex 
to the DIVX format. However, the resulting DIVX files were actually 
larger than the orignal TIVO file. The original file was 121MB (10 
minutes of video+audio). My first attempt was using FlaskMPEG with 
the DIVX4.12 codec which resulted in a 180MB AVI file. My second 
attempt was using FlaskMPEG with the Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 2 
codec. This resulted in a 154 MB AVI file. My third and last 
attempt used dvd2avi with the "DivX;-)MPEG4 Low-Motion" Compressor 
and resulted in 2 separate output files totaling 80MB. Although 
this was smaller than the original, I was hoping for an output file 
of ten percent of the original size as the DIVX.COM website said 
(that would have been 12.1 MB).

I would appreciate any input on this subject.

Thanks,
Xyombie
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