Vidomi: disappointed by first encoding, need info

[USS]

Hi all,

Probably somthing went wront with my settings. I hear a lot of good about Vidomi until now.

I used GordianKnot for a long time, and wished to give Vidomy a try. I encoded a movie of 2 hours on 1398 MB, including MP3 audio at 128 kb/s (not joined, and I would say around 130 MB long after encoding) using DivX 5.02 with pro features on except qpel.

I did the same using GKnot, and teh result was very satisfying.

The Vidomi result had the wished final file size, but was somewhat blocky. When using GSPOT (by the way, version 2 is available) to see info about encoding, I saw that Vidomi created an output file with a resolution of about 700x200 something pixels. Not sure anymore at all about the 200, don't trust that value, but I'm sure about 700. It was more than 700, but close to. So I'm pretty sure the problem lies here. 700 is too much! It's the original resolution of the MPEG2 stream on the DVD!

Since it was my very first attempt to use Vidomi, can someone tell me what is the way to influence the output resolution to lower the 700 value?

Thanks

 

[ChickenMan]

Vidomi by default produces a DivX at the same original size of the DVD source, and also automatically removes any black bars top and bottom of the pic if in 2.3:1 widescreen format.

You can reduce the size of the picture down. Go to Options / Video Options and in the box for % by Width, change to 90% (I thinks thats right) to give a 640 wide avi with height dependant on PAL or NTSC and original dvd format.

I assume you have also read my tutorial at http://forum.cdrsoft.cc/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1151