How do DIVX encoded movies look on BIG screens ~42-52in

[Gog]

I was curious as to how DIVX movies that have been compressed to about 700mb look like on big screens.

I assume that the image quality pales in comparision to the original DVD because of how the image is stretched...

 

[nemo160]

a good divx can look fine on a bigscreen
i made a backup of kiss of the dragon and the quality was near dvd level, still definitely better than vhs
setting your tv-out to 640x480 usually looks better than 800x600 in my experience
if you're runnning xp you'll have to use powerstri[p to do that because xp won't let you directly set 640x480x32bit

 

[HJB417]

I have a projector and the image looks really good. I don't use my 20' tv anymore =) It also depends how well the divx was encoded (bitrate used)

 

[powerMarkymark]

Try encoding the movie to fit on two 700MB CDs (Vidomi has an option that does this automatically for you), your bitrate is higher and the resulting quality is very close to the original DVD.

HTH

Mark

 

[Mavrick007]

Like Mark was implying, the higher the bitrate and the larger the size of the divX files created, the better the quality of the movie.
If you do a poor quality encoding and your movie is really small, chances are that it won't look very good and you will see defects.

 

[HJB417]

it might benefit you to use varibale bit rate encoding instead. It takes at least twice as long to create compared to a fixed rate divx but you'll save space (Turn a 2 or 3 cd fixed rate CD to just 1 or 2).

 

[render]

use Gordian Knot. Much better quality.

(Flaskmpeg - too buggy & quality sucks)

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

I find that Divx encoded movies look great on the computer monitor, but don't scale up as well on bigger tv screens. SVCD on the other hand scales very well on bigger tv screens, due to its mpeg 2 like nature.