Best Compressor for Virtual Dub

[kearlywi]

I was told 2 days ago that "DivX pro 5.0.3 codec" was the best compressor in virtual dub. It is a fine compressor with no quality loss (as far as I can tell) and gets my files down to around 110-140 megs (depending on resolution, bitrate).

I alrdy know of real media and .rm files, but right now I'm looking for a compressor that offers no quality loss and takes my 25 min episodes and makes that about 100 megs (.rm makes the same file about 5 times smaller but the quality isnt quite high enuf, so dont say real media I already know about it, plus i find .rm files to be too limited for distribution).

DivX is the best I have tried so far, however at the moment I am having Issues with its sound compressor syncing with it. Anyone know of a better compressor in Virtual Dub with no quality loss?

[jbone]

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You're always going to have significant loss of quality when using an MPEG-4-based codec, even if you don't know what to look for to see the drop in quality.

[Ashyukun]

You might want to try just outputting something of a similar quality first to make sure it's actually the compression that is causing problems and not a setting elsewhere. I.e., try outputting a HuffYUV version of the video from VDub and see if the sync is off on that or not. If it is, you may need to go back further in your process to see if there's a problem elsewhere (i.e., how you outputted things from DVD2AVI might be a place to start- most of the time we just turn off the audio output as we're only interested in the video for AMVs- assuming I'm understanding what you're trying to do from previous posts). I've never had VDub screw up an audio sync unless I've been messing around with changing framerates and such...