Many a times we download videos from the Net or copy a video from a friend which are either too large to fit into 1 GB Pen Drives or which are incorrectly encoded to be copied onto Pen Drives & played our new generation DivX compatible Home Theater Systems or LCD TV's.
This post describes with simple screenshots on how to re-encode such videos into 1 CD DivX or XviD formats -
- The first & foremost thing is to note the duration & dimensions of the video either
through Windows Explorer or through the Media Player which plays the video in the PC.
- Now convert the video duration into minutes. For example the video shown in the example is converted from 2 hours 28 minutes 41 seconds to 149 minutes
- Download WeeHetBitRates &
calculate the Video Bitrate required to encode the video. Here you need to key in the video duration that you calculated in the last step & set it to 710 MB *80 min) Standard CD Size. I have found that encoding videos with Audio Bitrate set to 96 Kbps is quite good enough. Now note down the Average Video bitrate which the applications displays
- Download Super & install it. It is an excellent video encoding & multiple video format conversion application. While encoding videos through S
uper please ensure that all applications are closed & the Heuristic scan in your Anti-virus application is disabled, as Super utilizes lot of your PC's resources. Now add the video to be encoded in Super, select the Output format, Video Bitrate, Audio Bitrate & other basic settings & start encoding your video. A standard 2 hours video generally takes almost 4-6 hours to encode.
Isn't the process of re-encoding simple? Now don't worry if you haven't received your favourite in the right encoded format.
(Disclaimer: This post is intended to help readers re-encode legal videos. Video piracy is strictly discouraged by the author.)
