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Subject: Re: DivX wizards: Help?

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DaveF

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Date Posted: 23:54:04 08/26/03 Tue
In reply to: Dena 's message, "DivX wizards: Help?" on 06:37:31 08/25/03 Mon

>Doug and I (mostly Doug since my equipment's at his
>house) are working on converting chunks of the JAC
>tape library to DivX, particularly series that haven't
>been checked out in living memory, so as to make
>everything more easily portable. (Yawara was #1 on the
>list; there are several others up for conversion too.
>Hopefully this way we can fit the tape library into
>those two long boxes rather than "two big boxes and
>several random shoeboxes".)
>
>If people specifically want to check out the tape
>format of something that's been converted, they'll
>still be available; we'll just need a week's notice to
>get them out of storage and bring them along for you.
>
>Anyway, this brings me to my question for the DivX
>wizards out there:
>
>I've got a little box that lets you capture VHS output
>at different rates and store it either as MPEG-1 or as
>MPEG-2 at different capture values. Doug's been
>capturing to MPEG-2 at 4 meg per second, then
>converting to DivX with VirtualDub. But he's
>discovered that a 30-minute episode ends up as 400 meg
>when converted to DivX that way.

Seeing as how you have a DVD burner, it might be simpler to
archive the stuff on DVD in mpeg2 format.

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Re: DivX wizards: Help?	Dena	07:49:55 08/27/03 Wed