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Originally Posted by reman
Any idea how well they compress?
I was trying to minimize the CD's I need. Ideally I would like to use 2 CDs to back up. DivX 5.02 any good?
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I've seen a couple of DivX files made with the 5.02 CODEC. The result is amaizing!. I've actually encoded a couple of AVI's that were done at a very high bit rate with version 5.02, and the MPEG-1 I created looks almost as if I had encoded from VOB's. That's how good the 5.02 is.
So I think that for archival purpose, and future re-encoding, you can use DivX 5.02 with a bit rate of around 3,000 to 3,500. That will give you DVD quality at a much smaller foorprint. Also the latest XVID CODEC works very good too.
-kwag