needed to put a 2 45 minute xvids on a couple CDs to play in the DVD player hooked up to a 16x9 widescreen.

Used Avidemux. Super easy. http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/

I just chose "Auto/VCD" and it set up the reduction in scale, vid, and sound codec. A 45 minute DVD rez xvid was reduced to 352 x 240 and 428.3 MB. Turned out pretty good, althought I forgot to turn off the automatic "black bars" which are a little annoying on the big screen. Played fine. I just burned the file to CD as my player doesnt need an actual VCD format disk.

So the second one, I do the automatic thing, remove the black bar filter on the video, and tried to resize, as why not use all the data on the CD. Well, I guesstimated about 66% of original size, then let it run a few minutes, then tested it, and the video was all wappyjawed and garbled.

Any suggestions? Im pretty happy with VCD quality w/o the black bar filter, but it seems a shame to reduce the rez so much to make it work, especially when theres room on the CD.

make it into SVCD higher res

maybe get a 90min CD next time & stich the vcds together :-D

Or convert them to DVD - VCD2SVCD we have for windoze

Ah yes, there was an SVCD option. Whoops. No DVD burner so CD will do for the occasional burn.

Total Video Converter  is quite good even converts flashmovies from youtube if interested give me a PM

Im good, just using this for, er, converting the odd lost serial episode. Usually I just watch on the pooter.

Does all your favorite software have the word "total" in in, cause thats like, totally rad!

Not really  Total Commander was windows commander
for a long time until M$ started to moan.

I tried a few for Idah to get and convert movies from youtube and this one turned out well can do a bunch of
converting also get the sound out of movies.


Total Video Converter

that link does not seem to work

Quote from: neXusthat link does not seem to work

Just tried and it works for me  or did you mean any of Max links ?

try this

http://www.effectmatrix.com/total-video-converter/index.htm

Quote from: neXusthat link does not seem to work

Works fine here. Perhaps the mighty weight of of your avatar is stealing your megahurtz. (3mb is only 60X the recommended size)