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Posted by R.j. on Sep-21-2009 22:35:

Divx to regular .avi?

Anybody know of a freeware converter doing divx avi's to regular avis?

Thanks in advance.

Posted by shuni on Sep-21-2009 22:37:

aren't they the same??

Posted by bananas on Sep-21-2009 22:43:

http://forum.videohelp.com/topic61463.html

Posted by jdat on Sep-21-2009 22:55:

quote:
Originally posted by shuni
aren't they the same??

no and as a matter of fact divx ain't "straight" divx, there are different types of divx codecs(xvid etc, and you have the audio which can be mp3, ac3 etc).

Avi in itself isn't a format as such, it is a container.
AVI files can be of any variety of video codecs.

you need to be more clear about your needs.

Posted by Darkarbiter on Sep-22-2009 01:15:

Well I just downloaded some video editing/converting software for starcraft stuff.

I'm currently useing next video converter (which is free). I think there's a fair chance it'll support divx if you have the divx codec installed, it certainly supports mpeg 4. Then just use virtualdub for avi encoding.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Sep-22-2009 04:44:

virtualdub

nuff said

Posted by Darkarbiter on Sep-22-2009 04:59:

quote:
Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
virtualdub

nuff said

Converts from AVIs to other AVIs

Does not support divx. Fail.

Posted by Joss Weatherby on Sep-22-2009 05:05:

quote:
Originally posted by Darkarbiter
Converts from AVIs to other AVIs

Does not support divx. Fail.

You fail, as you obviously didnt pay attention in this thread.

AVI is a media container, it is a method of encapsulating audio and video (AVI stands for Audio Video Interleave) and can use any number of codecs for the video and audio.

You can have a divx codec handle the video in the AVI container and Ogg Vorbis for the audio, or you could have xvid or anything else and Mp3.

Virtualdub will work with any fourcc video codec, which divx is one of, and it will work with divx using xvid, since it is backwards compat as well.

So learn something and don't just assume.

Posted by R.j. on Sep-22-2009 18:40:

Well, since I was a bit too vague about my intentions, I shall be a bit more precise as to what, exactly, it is I'm trying to accomplish:

Well, at my job, we record depositions for law firms, using a DV Camera, which obviously uses DV Tapes. I'm given the footage by the videographer, and I then capture the DV Tape into the computer, saving it as an type-1 .avi, which I then split and convert those two files into standard MPEG-1 (since the program I use to sync footage and transcript together is ONLY compatible with standard MPEG-1 Audio Layer 2, with a sample rate of 41000). The purpose of splitting the .avi is to avoid audio/video sync issues. I've learned that .avi files bigger than 500-700mb, and that have a length of 45+ minutes usually, little by little, become, as far as audio/video is concerned, unsynced when converted to a Standard MPEG-1.

But! Now, the footage for the more recent depositions were sent to me as DVD videos (VOB). So I ripped said DVDs into Divx .avi's and couldn't split them in Windows Movie Make, let alone convert them into MPEG-1s. So that was why I asked my previous question.

So, what I'm doing now, using VirtualDub, is ripping the DVDs straight to DV-AVIs; and hopefully I won't have a problems going from that to MPEG-1.

Any further suggestions much appreciated.

Posted by iTranscendence on Sep-22-2009 20:01:

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