Regular Rep: 5 Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,266 | VCD’s are pretty “archival” in my opinion. You just burn them on disc and they stay there for the lifespan of the cd, which is about 20 to 30 years. Note also that any kind of recompression that shrinks the video will likely do so at the cost of image quality.
If your intent is to transfer the file (over 56k for example), then recompression might make more sense.
For conversion to avi, VirtualDub (www.virtualdub.org) is the tool of choice. For high compression, good codecs to use would be microsoft mpeg-4 version 3 (hacked as divx 3), xvid, divx 5, and possibly Windows Media Video 9 (I haven’t tested the latter much). I would particularly recommend learning how to do multiple passes with the last three. The divx guide has info on how to do that.
http://go.divx.com/divx/guide
For each codec:
xvid: http://www.koepi.org
divx: http://www.divx.com
Microsoft MPEG-4 version 3 for avi - http://www.undercut.org/download
divx 3 - http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec.html
Windows Media Video 9 for avi - http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs/vcm.aspx
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