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Originally Posted by Dusty Bottoms
True  So XVID Is a hack of a hack of a hack.  I remember using XVID for one of my first rips and the then newly released Gordian Knot software. It took 18 hours to process the DVD and spit out a 700mb XVID with mp3 in an .AVI. Ahh the fun of video encoding, every damn year you need a more powerful computer to just to keep up speed. |
If I remember right (now depending on old memories, not google) Divx
was the hack of the Microsoft MP4 codec. They then made a "clean room" version Divx when they wanted to go commercial. xviD forked off the open source Divx when Divx went closed source-- but I don't remember if xviD comes from the hacked MS code or the "clean room" code.
If you are talking about AutoGK, and it worked the same way then that it works now (first demux AC3, then convert it to MP3, then test compressibility of video, then run two encoding passes) that's 5 steps slowing it down. When I first started creating Divx files using DeCSS and Flask, it did a 1-step conversion-- and took over 24 hours to convert a typical movie at 320x240. Uphill both ways, in the snow. (This was on an AMD K6-2 400 MHz.)