Originally posted by: Moth3r
I'd be interested to know what "compatibility reasons" you've read about that prompted you to change the 4CC?
Actually the compatibility issue I spoke of is that, for some reason, Adobe Premiere doesn't display XviD files in its editing workspace unless its 4CC is DivX. This, of course, would not affect a final output file that I have no intention of editing with Premiere, but I just leave the XviD settings that way for all my encodes. So in a way it's more of a habit thing, I guess.
XviD files should normally be split into CD-sized files for archival, i.e multiples of 700MB (the exception being short TV shows). For a film length of 3 hours, a 2-CD rip would be the most appropriate.
I'd be interested to know what "compatibility reasons" you've read about that prompted you to change the 4CC?
Actually the compatibility issue I spoke of is that, for some reason, Adobe Premiere doesn't display XviD files in its editing workspace unless its 4CC is DivX. This, of course, would not affect a final output file that I have no intention of editing with Premiere, but I just leave the XviD settings that way for all my encodes. So in a way it's more of a habit thing, I guess.
XviD files should normally be split into CD-sized files for archival, i.e multiples of 700MB (the exception being short TV shows). For a film length of 3 hours, a 2-CD rip would be the most appropriate.
I see. I guess I generally keep my AVI files on a hard drive, which is why I don't usually bother to split them into CD length. (In fact, for multiple AVI files that I download, I usually concatenate them for archival on my hard drive.)