Compressing AVI's

[chrisbard]

I would like to post some stuff from inside some great games in avi format here on AOA and I need to compress the files captured with fraps. I am somewhat sorry for loosing the incredible fast/high quality compressing software of my departed X1950 ATI vcard. So my question is this. What codec and what program you guys recommend? I installed Gordian Knot and inside there is one compressor prog and it let's you choose the codec you want (ex: divx4/5, mpeg2, intel...) but I am not happy with the result quality. I don't need guesses I need some clear answers !

Thanks

[gedon]

I use divx 6 to compress movies I've recorded
resolution 640x480
video 800kBit/s
you can download a 15day trial version from divx.com
xvid is free, but you need at least 1000kBit/s for the same quality

[noob]

The more you compress, the higher the quality of compression you need to use (i.e. takes longer). Also look at using a 2 pass compression, instead of 1. If you have audio, maybe re-encode that (say 128kb/s mp3) use CDex to do that encoding as a riff-wav which means a program like virtualdub can read it.

Divx 6 is also good, you can get the basic codec for free, but you will have to pay for full use.
I haven't had any problems with xvid - and its free!!!

[chrisbard]

I am familiar with virtualdub/xvid I'll try and see how it works in terms of quality ! Thanks guys, I'll give divx 6 a try aswell.

[mookydooky]

Uh.... try this.....

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=113811

AutoMKV..... encodes and transcodes between formats. I found DivX somewhat annoying. It's freeware.