Divx-dvd Encoder Options

[toast it nero!]

i am using Toast and i want to burn my DivX files onto a DivX-DVD to watch it on my DivX-certified dvd player. i allways use the "home-cinema" profile with the option "create file with high quality". quality is like original. but i would like to know if i can tune it a little bit by using the experienced DivX settings. maybe i can make the movie playing smoother or things like that. but i am a noob and dont understand the different things.

 

what means (i use the german version so i am had to translate the options into a misserable english, sorry):

 

scale filter

sourcepreparation

psychovisual improvement

linejump

border of sceneswitch

bidirectional

quantize

codingmode

 

and the codingperformance? should this allways be on "stunning quality"? or will the picturequality stay allways at the top and only the filesize and codingspeed will change?

 

and how does the videopreview work? if i click it, a window will appear but nothing will play. but in the chapter "convert" it will play a videopreview though.

 

is it somehow possible to create a DivX-Disc with chaptermarkers? no chaptermenu though, only markers.

[toast it nero!]

thanks. i also think that the preset will be a good choise. but i thought any option for rising the framerate could look good. there arent any differences between source avi and divx. what i meant was to make the normal 29 fps movie into a smoother playing divx. is that possible?

[toast it nero!]

thanks, i will give it a try in the divx forum. by the way, i thought i already had installed DivX before i installed Toast 9. so the codec is really only 6.4? how can i check this?

[tsantee]

thanks. i also think that the preset will be a good choise. but i thought any option for rising the framerate could look good. there arent any differences between source avi and divx. what i meant was to make the normal 29 fps movie into a smoother playing divx. is that possible?

This is beyond my expertise but my hunch is you can't do this with a compressed video source. There may be video editing applications that can smoothly interpolate additional frames but, if so, I'm sure they require uncompressed video.

[tsantee]

thanks, i will give it a try in the divx forum. by the way, i thought i already had installed DivX before i installed Toast 9. so the codec is really only 6.4? how can i check this?

Toast uses the DivX encoder that is inside its package. Control-click on the Toast application and choose Show Package Contents. Open the MacOS folder and choose Get Info for the DivX 6 SDK.bundle and you'll see it is version 6.4. If you want to encode with a later version you need to use DivX Converter that is part of the $20 DivX Pro.

[toast it nero!]

This is beyond my expertise but my hunch is you can't do this with a compressed video source. There may be video editing applications that can smoothly interpolate additional frames but, if so, I'm sure they require uncompressed video.

 

i am burning now Xvids to DivX-DVDs (Xvid may be the same as DivX) but strangly some MP4s and h.264s must first encoded and become the double size as source file. but in all it is an better solution as to make normal DVD-Video.

[tsantee]

Those are excellent questions but I don't think you'll find much DivX expertise here. I suggest creating a 30-second clip and doing a lot of experimenting. Also, the best place to share info with DivX users is here.

 

By the way, Toast uses DivX 6.4.0. You'll find that DivX has a standalone encoder that is a later version so make sure the other users at the DivX forum knows you're referring to version 6.4.

 

The only reason I can think of that the video preview doesn't work is if the source video is something Toast can't decode. But that's just a guess.

 

I know that Toast adds chapter markers at five minute intervals when encoding for video DVD but I don't know about chapters in DivX recordings.

[toast it nero!]

thanks, worked. i asked the people in DivX forum and the Roxio support but it seems i dont have any luck. maybe you can help me a little bit? isnt there any of the divx options you may have a little knowledge about?

[tsantee]

thanks, worked. i asked the people in DivX forum and the Roxio support but it seems i dont have any luck. maybe you can help me a little bit? isnt there any of the divx options you may have a little knowledge about?

It's been a long time since I played with those settings and I don't remember much about it. The settings are aimed at trying to get the smallest file size at high quality or trying to get the fastest encoding time regardless of quality. The preset you're using is a very good compromise of all those factors.

 

I don't believe you'll get noticeable improvement in quality tweaking those settings unless you also were trying to keep from losing quality while shrinking the file size.

 

Any stuttering on playback is either due to a stuttering source video or trouble the player is having decoding the video. There shouldn't be any difference between 30 fps source video and 30 fps DivX.