Converting video from DIVX, 24 hours??

Solidus Prime · Post by **Solidus Prime** » Thu May 04, 2006 1:33 pm

Hi all, the people in these forums appear helpful so hopefully someone can help.

I'm currently in the market for a good and easy to use DVD Authoring software, I'm somewhat new to the concept but a fast learner.

I've tried another product, which took about 2 hours per disc but I wasn't happy with the chapter generation.

I downloaded Ulead MF5's demo, and am shocked to see it's been 8 hours and it is only at 25% of converting the video, and 3% total progress. I figured it would be done when I woke up this morning, but it is not. I assume the rest of the 97% will go quicker once it's done with the conversion.

I am working with a 700mb DIVX encoded file, run time of about 140 minutes.

I was able to read some tips on these forums about manually selecting bitrate, choosing Dolby Audio, etc in order to get it to fit on the 120min Sony DVD-R. The estimate at the bottom of the burning process wizard is 3.75gb.

My relevant specs are as follows:

Laptop
AMD 64 3700+
2gb RAM
I do not know the hard drive speed, however it is "modern"

I do not have any sort of encoder hardware, however since the "other product" clocked in at about 2 hours, it seems 24 hours is a bit on the slow side. I also don't see any posts of "24 hours?!?!?" which I would imagine would be the case if this was typical.

Assuming I am able to get around this or speed the process up, I have a better product on my hands. Any help would be appreciated.

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Thu May 04, 2006 10:29 pm

That seems to be somewhat normal for DivX.

You might try looking for a 3rd-party program to convert your file to MPEG-2 (or AVI/DV) before you bring it into Movie Factory. One program you can try is SUPER (FREE !!!!). I've never played around with DivX, but I've used SUPER for a different problem.

You can also try searching the forum for "DivX" to see what solutions others have found.

The DivX format is really meant to be directly viewed on a computer. Note that there is some quality loss when converting from DVD to DivX, and quality loss again when converting back to DVD.

Solidus Prime · Post by **Solidus Prime** » Fri May 05, 2006 1:57 am

I will definitely check it out. Thanks so much for the advice.