Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I don't have any way of generating DivX or Xvid. But IIRC, last time I 
> tried, no matter what settings I used the picture came out horrifically 
> blurry. I'd down the quality settings higher and higher, and the file 
> got larger and larger, but there was no visible improvement in the 
> picture.

  Then all those divx and xvid videos out there which look just fine must
have been created by magic. ;)

> Since my camcorder records onto 8cm DVDs which are reputedly playable on 
> a normal DVD player, I'm presuming it generates MPEG-2. (I'm not sure 
> how to actually get that off the disk though.)

  If you are able to play the DVD videos with your computer, it's rather
trivial to copy the video/audio streams from the DVD to eg. an AVI file.
For example mencoder can do that. There are probably also many Windows
programs which can also do that.

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