Great!!!

What does it take to create a DivX file?  I have a WinTV card,
a Linux box, CD-R, and whatever Linux distro will support the
software you recommend.

George


Jeff wrote:
> 
> I've been into video a lot lately and personally, AVI is my favorite.
> Well... Actually, DivX. The compression is excellent. I have a CD with
> Braveheart on it. It's excellent quality even on a monitor, but when viewed
> through a TV card onto a TV, I don't even notice a difference from my
> couch. If you go right up to the TV then you can see the pixels, but who
> really watches movies from a foot or two away?
> 
> I think we all know how long of a movie Braveheart is and it fits onto a 700
> MB CD!!! (overburned of course)
> 
> I'm probably not answering your question, I'm just saying instead of MPEG 1
> or 2, I'd go with MPEG 4 (DivX is MPEG 4 I think, which has a .divx or .avi
> extension)
> 
> On Sunday, April 28, 2002 11:49 pm, George Toft wrote:
> |Let's say my stack of videotapes is growing - not to mention a CD-R is
> | $0.15 each and a video tape $2.00.  I want to record a TV show onto CD
> | instead of video tape.  I have the Hauppage WinTV card.
> |
> |I've tried Broadcast2000, with works OK, except that 30 seconds of video
> |takes up 200MB and there is no audio playback.  It's also an AVI file,
> |not an MPEG.
> |
> |What does it take to record video and audio and store it in an MPEG that
> |xtheater understands?  I'm a total digital video newbie and need a gentle
> |shove in the right direction.
> |
> |Thanks in advance.
> |
> |George
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