OT: Which video format to digital camera videos?

[Asmala]

It's a problem if there's no binaries to Xvid since I've Windows XP and no compiler. Btw, why DivX is crap?

[Fyron]

If you go to the tutorial sites I linked to, they link to compiled binaries and software useful for encoding movies in Xvid.

Compared to other formats, DivX has a high rate of visual artifacts produced by its compression algorithms. Xvid is qualitatively superior in this regard. Definitely not worth paying any money for second-rate proprietary DivX software, or using the free ad-banner versions (at least, they were ad-banner versions long ago when I used it).

[Asmala]

I found Xvid binaries and tested them. Compression quality is good, and I'm very satisfied with the codec except that the brightness of the video isn't same.

Below are cropped screenshots from the same video.

Original:


Xvid:

[Fyron]

Try playing around with the settings you use for the compression?