Any Benefit To Divx?

[ghulseman]

I have several .avi files I want to burn to DVD-Rs in order to watch on TV. I would assume that I should use DVD format. But my DVD player is also DIVx compatible and I was wondering if there is any benefit to burning these files as Divx. They are each about 800 mb about an hour and a half long. If I burned as Divx I imagine I could burn about four to a DVD-R. I do want the best video/sound quality. Will burning as Divx reduce the quality?

 

Any help someone could provide would be most helpful. Thanks!

 

 

[ghulseman]

Your AVIs may already be DivX. The advantage of burning those to DivX disc is there won't need to be re-encoding which is a big time-saver and no additional loss of picture quality. So I suggest going with Divx.

 

Actually, you're right. They are DivX. That saves a lot of time. Thanks for your help.

 

 

[tsantee]

Your AVIs may already be DivX. The advantage of burning those to DivX disc is there won't need to be re-encoding which is a big time-saver and no additional loss of picture quality. So I suggest going with Divx.

[ghulseman]

Your AVIs may already be DivX. The advantage of burning those to DivX disc is there won't need to be re-encoding which is a big time-saver and no additional loss of picture quality. So I suggest going with Divx.

 

I don't think they are DivX. So I guess Toast will have to re-encode these files regardless of DivX or DVD? Maybe I'll try one of each and compare them.