Storing Tivo Video using DIVX

[junior15]

I've used the DiVx codec to encode other video with very good
compression ratios. I have also seen full length movies (taken from
DVD's) that fit on a CD (<700Mb). It may be that the file you are
starting with is already compressed, or that you aren't using the best
settings for the DiVx codec. Check out www.doom9.net for info on
encoding to DiVx. That is where I got my settings for Flask.

Enjoy
Daniel

--- In ExtractStream@y..., "xyombie" <xyombie@y...> wrote:
> 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
> xyombie@y...