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Hi,

Another Bitrate Calculater.

http://labs.divx.com/BitrateCalc

I am wondering, though, if it is designed specifically with DivX specifications in mind. For a 1 hour 40 minute clip such as that used in the example on the link page you gave, and using Dolby or mpeg layer 2 audio at a higher bitrate than the 160 kbps given in the sample, you could burn all that to a single layer DVD as mpeg-2 with a bitrate closer to 6000 kbps, which would even give you good quality.

If you set it as low as that sample figure (1752 kbps) it would be impossibly poor quality, but you could fit more than 4 hours on a DVD... Again, I am talking about DVD-compatible mpeg-2, not DivX which of course uses much lower bitrates, but produces high quality video. You can of course burn it to DVD, not not a typical video DVD -- just as an archive disk. But you need a stand-alone DVD player which is rated to play DivX discs -- though thankfully, there are quite a lot of those on the market these days...

I posted another message with links to DivX manuals which go into a LOT of detail about the compression and how it works.

A litte deep but .....

That is not the point I am making. In this thread you posted the link to a bit calculator with no mention in your title or anything else that it was a DivX bit calculator. Anyone reading it casually -- or a newbie -- might be mistaken and think that is what they use with normal video DVDs and they would get atrocious results. *That* is the point I was making... I know you are trying to help, but that link -- without more explanation -- could cause more trouble than it is worth...

Hmmm

The link says DivX ?

The website that it links to says DIVX BITRATE CALCULATOR ?

The headong of the message say ANOTHER Bitrate Calculator

I won't carry on any further about this, but -- again -- the point I am trying to make is that if, say, you had used a title which said 'Bitrate Calculator for DivX videos' or put something in the thread itself which said something like 'This calculator is only for calculations relating to DivX videos and does not apply to standard DVDs' it would have been more helpful, especially for newbies who might never have heard of DivX but who saw the bitrate calculator as being a useful tool for their standard movies...

I've edited the title to reflect DivX, so it will be obvious from the index..