DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Robert Tidey wrote:

The other nice thing is that you can batch up jobs in it to leave
it
running over night. If I can't find anything better berfore it's 15
day trial runs out then I might end up going down that route.


Nero Recode is unbelievably fast compared to DivX, and Nero are
going
to put the new H.264/AVC codec (the most efficient codec available)
in the next release:

http://tinyurl.com/ysrdg

I've not had much of a play with Nero Recode, but I re-compressed a
30
minute MPEG2 video file and it did it in something like half an hour
(Ahtlon 2500), whereas DivX seems to take a couple of hours using
2-pass, and that's not even on the slow or slowest settings.

IIRC though, DR DivX allows you to input MPEG2 files, so Nero Recode
has the drawback that you've got to use ProjectX or PVAstrumento,
then
IfoEdit to get the file into VOB format before it recognises the
video
file. So, if you're going to leave it going overnight, then the
coding
time isn't an issue, and Dr DivX probably does require the least
effort on your behalf out of anything I've come across.

Nero Recode does look pretty interesting, and I'm going to give it a
try.

But and it's a big but, I believe the files it puts out are mpeg4s in
its own wrapper, and that means they won't play on my Yamada Divx/DVD
player.

Robert Tidey wrote:
DAB sounds worse than FM wrote:
Robert Tidey wrote:

The other nice thing is that you can batch up jobs in it to leave it
running over night. If I can't find anything better berfore it's 15
day trial runs out then I might end up going down that route.


Nero Recode is unbelievably fast compared to DivX, and Nero are going
to put the new H.264/AVC codec (the most efficient codec available)
in the next release:

http://tinyurl.com/ysrdg

I've not had much of a play with Nero Recode, but I re-compressed a
30 minute MPEG2 video file and it did it in something like half an
hour (Ahtlon 2500), whereas DivX seems to take a couple of hours
using 2-pass, and that's not even on the slow or slowest settings.

IIRC though, DR DivX allows you to input MPEG2 files, so Nero Recode
has the drawback that you've got to use ProjectX or PVAstrumento,
then IfoEdit to get the file into VOB format before it recognises
the video file. So, if you're going to leave it going overnight,
then the coding time isn't an issue, and Dr DivX probably does
require the least effort on your behalf out of anything I've come
across.

Nero Recode does look pretty interesting, and I'm going to give it a
try.


The main drawback is that it's pretty expensive.


But and it's a big but, I believe the files it puts out are mpeg4s in
its own wrapper, and that means they won't play on my Yamada Divx/DVD
player.


They've got a .mp4 file extension and wouldn't playback in any of the
usual video players I've used for DivX files, so it sounds like your DVD
player might have problems.

I noticed a hardware encoder device on the official DivX web site that
encodes to DivX in real-time. It's about £120 IIRC, but it's worth
considering.


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"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote:

Robert Tidey wrote:

Nero Recode does look pretty interesting, and I'm going to give it a
try.


The main drawback is that it's pretty expensive.

I'm pretty sure I upgraded an OEM version of Nero 5 to Nero 6 (including
Recode) for 23ukp.

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Tim Howarth wrote:
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"DAB sounds worse than FM" wrote:

Robert Tidey wrote:

Nero Recode does look pretty interesting, and I'm going to give it
a
try.


The main drawback is that it's pretty expensive.

I'm pretty sure I upgraded an OEM version of Nero 5 to Nero 6
(including Recode) for 23ukp.

Yes. It is a standard part of Nero 6 so cost doesn't come into it for
me.

Although it's neat that they can wrap up a complete DVD structure it
would be good if they had the option to do a simple avi output of divx
video + audio stream as well. That way it would directly support the
standalone divx players as well as the use of standard softare
playback programs.