Kero777 wrote:For the FourCC? I chose not to install ffdshow with the AMVapp because I was told it conflicted with some other codecs. I had a lot of trouble with codecs on my old computer.
For the FourCC it doesn't seem to matter if it's XVID or DX50. I use DX50 for my own encodes (well, the ones that I encode using XviD, anyway). Old, decrepit versions of ffdshow are known to pop up in codec packs and conflict with the rest of the codecs the same packs install, but I certainly haven't experienced problems arising from using ffdshow. In it's configuration you can tell it which ones to handle, and if it seems to cause a problem with a particular format, you can just tell it not to decode that one.
The version of ffdshow I use is from the ffdshow-tryouts project, located here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=173941I've stopped keeping track of which version is in the AMVapp, since the page there is guaranteed to have the very latest builds (which on average, occur
at least once a week). I'm sure the new AMVapp beta uses one of the tryouts builds, but I don't know which one.
I tried using MKV with the compression of MP4 (did I understand you correctly? Not actually using AVI at all?) and the quality was horrid for some reason.

It does
seem to play smooth though. For some reason I do not have the other options. Maybe missing codecs?
I meant, use the MP4 container or the MKV container. DivX and XviD are implementations of MPEG-4 Part 2, specifically Advanced Simple Profile (ASP). The MP4 container is another part of the MPEG-4 standard. H.264 (which is causing the MP4 container to gain popularity around here, but it's also used for AAC audio like the purchases from the iTunes store) is MPEG-4 Part 10. Both ASP and H.264 can be stored inside MP4. Think of it like MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 and their respective Program or Transport streams.
Is there a guide for the MKV conversion? Maybe I am doing that wrong too.
For MKV, all you *need* to do is take your already-encoded XviD AVI file, load up
MKVMerge GUI, click the add button on the main screen, select your video and audio (or just the video if it has the audio already attached), go to the Muxing menu, click 'Add command line options', select
--engage native_mpeg4 from the drop-down menu, click Add, then go back to the main screen and mux as usual.
The part for MP4 is mostly setting up the program.
For MP4, you'll need
YAMB. I use 1.6.0, which you can find at that link (which is the developer's personal site; newer versions can be found on the
official website, but these instructions are for the older version - if you want to use the newer ones then this will probably act as a good guideline, at any rate). If it tells you it needs libmmd.dll, it's also at that link where 1.6.0 is. Go to the Options tab, and select Enable Import Settings (you might also have to tell YAMB where MP4Box is, use the arrow next to General on the same Settings tab and choose MP4Box - you'll see the place where you can tell it where the executable is, which should be in YAMB's Program Files folder - typically C:\Program Files\YAMB\ or wherever it was that you chose to install the program to during setup).
Go back to the Mux tab, click Add and select your already-encoded XviD AVI file. The Import Settings dialog will show up. Make sure that Remove N-VOPs and Import only Video Track is selected. It can automatically detect the framerate from AVI files so you more than likely won't need to use the Force framerate option. Click OK and it'll go back to the main screen. Now to add your audio, click Add again and choose your audio, the dialog will pop up again; you won't even be able to access the N-VOPs or framerate options so don't worry about them, make sure the Import only Audio Track is selected and press OK. Now just click Mux and it'll do it's thing. That's it.