Please suggest a premium video transcoder

[enewmen]

Hi All.

I have some old divx files I want to transcode to the newer and more standard AVC h.264.
I tried Expresso, Nero 8, etc.
But they gave me larger files and look worse than the original divx file. --> They seem worse than useless.
The apps I tried also didn't have many options for me to tweek it just right.
I don't care how fast it is as long as the result looks good.

Any suggestions? Support for OpenCL, UVD, and fixed function accelerration is icing on the cake.
Do I expect too much?

ok thanks!

 

[hang-the-9]

DIVX is a compressed format, you will not be able to get good results by re-coding it into another format. To get good video you need to start with the original and then convert to h.264

Besides, DIVX is pretty much as good of a standard as you can get, why bother changing it?



Wikipedia has a list of programs you can try in it's h.264 article towards the bottom.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC

 

[enewmen]

Just want to change it for portable device compatibility.
One problem I have is many of the files have a motion compensation setting which even divx compatible devices don't like.
Too bad The Divx company wants me to upgrade to the version 7 which uses mkv, I dont think this will help any.