Encoding

How to encode video @ DiVX 5.02 with 2 pass, second pass setting? I use Vitual Dub or Xmpeg

In IE6.0 some pages auto load without images (just red x) and are not formatted properly. When looking at View Encoding menu, it has Western European (ISO) checked with autoselect. When I switch to Western European (Windows), the page loads properly. Do you know how to set as default Western...

Yesterday, I used Divx 4.11 and Xmpeg 4.2a. The performance of SSE/MMX optimized encoding was AMAZING. Here is my performance results: 1) Xmpeg (the one before 4.2a) + Divx 4 + Reference iDCT = 13 hours of encoding (single pass). Average FPS 3-4. 2) FairUse, 12-13 hours of encoding. 3) Xmpeg...

From The latest Video editing article: "For example: we often use an Intel Pentium 4/2000 clocked to 2300 MHz for MPEG-4 encoding, together with 512 MB of RAM and a fast Ultra-160-SCSI hard drive. That means that for full PAL resolution (720 x 576 dots) and sound with 128 KBit/s at 44 kHz, a...

Alright you smart people... when encoding mp3's what are the absolute best codecs to use? not concerned with speed here but QUALITY, both with 128 fixed and 128 VBR. I would show you some apathy, but i just cant be bothered.

I couldn't find an appropriate forum to post this question, please bear with me........ When Tom posts his divx encoding benchmarks he does so in FPS(frames per second, I would believe). How does this relate to encoding an entire movie? Given his FPS benchmark, is there a way to figure the...

If you own cassettes & want to make a copy by encoding them by putting the songs onto CD & listening to them in your car .......... Is this legal ? What are the laws distinguishing this ?

Is there a way to keep the original AC3 or DTS soundtracks when ripping a DVD to MPEG4? <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=1686" target="_new">System spec.</A> Ideas appreciated.