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.avi .mpg .mp3 = not so good anymore

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cuteybunny

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.asf .wmv .wma .rm = awesome media format, kicks ass! not only do you save plenty of space, the quality are nearly just as good or very impressive IMO. 🙂
ex: why waste 650-900meg of space for 2 hours of movies using avi or mpg when you can use these cheap dirt format and reduce it to say 100-250megs using 256kbit-350kbit?
here is the good part, I am converting all my avi and mpg to asf format, oh the horror lol
yes sir some folk are going to witness this for the first time and wondering WTH?! their original format have been butchered! hehehe. this is very very time consuming but like I say i rahter have less quality and more space to store it and also easy to backup to cd as well.



 
And in the time you spend converting them, you could have worked and gotten a larger hard drive to store the originals.
 
Talk about being backwards.

I can understand VCD (mpeg1) perhaps (though you'll still loose quality due to lossy nature of codecs) but if you're converting DivX to anything else, you're wasting your time.
 


<< ......and i dont really care >>



What an intellectual comment! HA....what do you mean they're not good anymore, of course they are! ASF's are awsome, that's obvoius, DIVX kicks @$$ too...AVI's are good, i'll give it to you that mpg's are becomming obsolete(for their size)..mp3's are still the best in my book...because RM doesn't offer that much more disk-loss over the quality ratio...IMO...RMs for movies arne't good unless it's 400kbs rate....i geuss unless it's very slow moving, but with action(which most are) you'll need a higher bitrate that another codec like DIVX is actually better suited for. Oh well, to each his own, glad you found something that brings joy to your life, heh
 
I like avis (or wmvs I guess it doesn't matter) with windows media 8 encoding. Good as divx quality but much smaller file size. Some of the real divx pimps will probably get better quality with this 2pass or whatever stuff but I don't know about that stuff so I WM8.

I think asf is just the streaming version of wmv. I think it matters what codec you use. Like older asfs completely suck ass for quality but if you encode one with wm8 it'd look okay I think.

I don't use wma because mp3s are so dominant.

That reminds me, I have to convert a 913mb (25 min too 🙂, it's max quality) divx video to wm8. I want to test how well it looks but be smaller than the divx file.

edit: Anything Real is crap. Their player is pathetic too.
 
LOL, why not just reencode them to DivX but at a lower bitrate if you need the space? I agree you shouldn't use mpeg1 or mpeg2 if you're only going to play the movies on your computer, and going from MP3 to WMA sound might save a few MBs, but converting DivX to WMV? 😕 They're basically the same thing...


And no matter what codec you use, 100-250MB movies will look like shiat.

 
if someone spent all the time in the world converting them to divx why shouldn't i spend just as much time converting to a more condensed format of divx? 😀
maybe one day we'll be able to get the same quality for 100kbit that we have for 1400-1600kbit theseday
like divx, it may soon be obsolete just like mp3 have which dont sound good anything lower then 128kbit but with .wma microsoft 's version of mp3, it is just as good with only half the bitrate
so wma 64kbit is like 128kbit, 32kbit wma = 64kbit mp3.
having more space is not the solution, i would like to share with friends and other people like you as well.
if it so huge it would be very difficult to pass around or even backup on cd.
btw, it took me only 1min to convert my mp3's to 64kbit that is 4 min long on my celeron 533 using sonic foundry stream anywhere.
below you will find good link to commercial streaming software, the freeware is so crappy and slow that it almost useless.

http://www.matrox.tv/supports/info/faq_stream_info.asp?page=9



<< And in the time you spend converting them, you could have worked and gotten a larger hard drive to store the originals. >>

 
Divx rocks, perhaps you can get better quality with wmv, but right now I have no problem with a divx movie per cd. WMA may sound better, but I suggest that people try the lame encoder for mp3's if they want high quality very customizable mp3's. I dont see it replacing mp3's anytime, especially since its a microsoft, and hence, proprietary format. I avoid having too many things microsoft, they are a bit controlling for my taste.
 
All the movies I have are DivX. Its already compressed so I dont need to do it again. Also, RM and ASF is good if the video dont have much action, cause it will look like sh*t. Now that hard drives are cheap, people can afford the extra file size that comes with high quality video.
 
media8 encoder is extremely slow and encoder 7.1 wont work with divx movies files.
hmm i cannot use either one.
stream anywhere seem to do a hell of alot better job and but slower thought.
to save time encoding them i have reduced some of them to 12 fps instead of 24, 10 fps instead of 30fps
oh the horror! 🙂 i watched them and it seem like slow motion but hey it for someone else to watch not me
im done with all the movies I've have watched.
the cool thing is i get to watch quality stuff while someone I am sharing with get my crappy quality hahaha this is just so funny. but they can't complain at least it better then downloading incomplete divx movies file then to have something that is smaller and take less time to dl. enjoy folks. also it encourage other to buy the real thing as an advertising promotion thing. so everyone would be happy this way.
i can't keep the real stuff: divx movies files ,sorry too huge for my taste and it cannot not be compressed any further or take way too long to do so.
i have 30gig worth of divx/mpg that onced condensed will be 10gig i believe it will only take me a week to do so, hell better then buying another 60gig harddrive.
btw i already have 100 gig on this computer, i just dont like filling it with junks stuff 🙂



<< I like avis (or wmvs I guess it doesn't matter) with windows media 8 encoding. Good as divx quality but much smaller file size. Some of the real divx pimps will probably get better quality with this 2pass or whatever stuff but I don't know about that stuff so I WM8.

I think asf is just the streaming version of wmv. I think it matters what codec you use. Like older asfs completely suck ass for quality but if you encode one with wm8 it'd look okay I think.

I don't use wma because mp3s are so dominant.

That reminds me, I have to convert a 913mb (25 min too 🙂, it's max quality) divx video to wm8. I want to test how well it looks but be smaller than the divx file.

edit: Anything Real is crap. Their player is pathetic too. >>

 
i am sorry, but you're a tard.

.wmv, .asf, suck. try jumping ahead in an .wmv or .asf clip and watch as it takes about 20 seconds for the fool thing to catch up, all the while the scroll bar is scrolling.

if you are worried about space then get a CD burner. you can burn all your porn to CD. i just picked up a 24x burner for $69 after rebate. i found the deal in the hot deals forum.
 
RM is absolute crap. The best codec IMO is the Quicktime Sorenson codec, but it's designed for high bitrate and uses a lot of CPU power.


WMV 8 is pretty good, but I don't think there's a big difference compared to DivX 4.11 at very low bitrates, and DivX looks much better then WMV at higher bitrates. From my experience, DivX encoding is much faster and is more tweakable, not being a proprietary MS format. And a 64kbps WMA file does NOT sound as good as a 128kbps MP3 encoded with Lame.


Don't you have a burner?








 
Well considering you think Real Media is good, I think I'll try avoiding all of your posts from now on.

.rm? lol, WTF are you smoking dumbass...
 
You do realize that converting mpegs to wmv or divx, will be a total waste of time, since it will look horrible considering its encoded from an mpeg. Itll look decent if you encode it from the source, but dont waste your time encoding from another format.

Same goes for audio. I'd take WMA over Mp3 (barely), as long as its encoded from the source. Encode an MP3 to wma, and itll sound like sh*t, even at the same bitrate. And WMA is only very slightly better than than lame vbr.
 
Bah, I archive everything I download on disks (usually monthly). I don't care about what format they are in because they are all on CD-R's now 😀
-- mrcodedude
 


<< You do realize that converting mpegs to wmv or divx, will be a total waste of time, since it will look horrible considering its encoded from an mpeg. Itll look decent if you encode it from the source, but dont waste your time encoding from another format.

Same goes for audio. I'd take WMA over Mp3 (barely), as long as its encoded from the source. Encode an MP3 to wma, and itll sound like sh*t, even at the same bitrate. And WMA is only very slightly better than than lame vbr. >>



OMG. WTF?

Hello! DVD's are MPEG technology (MPEG2), so all the divx movies out there were encoded from MPEG and they look great. For that matter, divx is MPEG technology, too (MPEG4). And re-encoding to a smaller bitrate doesn't produve horrible results if you have a clue what you're doing.

As for wma, etc. I'd stick with DivX and MP3 just so I don't have to support Microsoft anymore than I need to. (W2K and Office are enough for me, thanks).
 
One reason not to use WMA is that it's a proprietary format (property of MS). There are various formats, including .ogg which are at least as good as .wma, yet are Open Source.
 
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