[ExtractStream] Storing Tivo Video using DIVX

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I DON'T think you will get 10%. I converted a 640mb Divx (which looked 
just like a DVD) to a 1 gig VCD 1 file. Now the VCD 1 was only 320x240. 
The Divx was 720x480 I believe. So there is quite a bit of savings.

>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.
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>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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