[DivX Codec Release 4.01]
[FlaskMPEG XiS30e]

The FlaskMPEG tool is a straightforward solution for converting video sources. It give you great resizing quality and usage is smoothly and extremely intuitive. But here we go with the step-by-step guide on recompressing the video-stream:

• Download the DivX 4.01 Codec and run the executable.
  (this will install the DivX Codec which is a reengineered MPEG4v3 from Microsoft)
  
• Download the FlaskMPEGEncoder and unpack it into a directory of your choice.
  (use the links above to determine the right version for your processor)
  
• Fire up FlaskMPEGEncoder by starting FlasKMPEG.exe
  (ignore the message telling you that MPEG output is disabled)
  
• Choose your VOBfile with File->Open Media
  (there are two choices here depending on what audio you want to encode)
  
  a)Multiplexing unmodified Dolby Digital AC3 with AVI:
  Choose any stream that is shown. The audio processing will not be done by FlasKMPEG.
  
  b)Multiplexing MP3 or OGG Vorbis Audio with AVI:
  Choose the stream that is of interest for you. Check back at SmartRipper to get the right stream-id for your language.
  
  
• Choose menu Options->Select Output Format->OpenDML AVI Output
  
• Choose menu Options->Global Project Options
  
  
• Select tab Video
  
  
  
• Enter appropriate framesize into Frame Size and select appropriate Frames per Second !
  
  PAL: 720 x 576 @ 25 fps
  NTSC: 720 x 480 @ 23.976 fps
  
  
• Checkthe box Auto Selection at iDCT Options
  
  
• Select tab Audio
  
  
  
• Check the box Don't process audio
  
  IMPORTANT: (for non AC3 users)
  In case you don't want do use Dolby Digital AC3 as your Audio codec but MP3 or some other PCM codec you have to choose Decode Audio here and depending on your Audio codec you have to downsample it to 44100 Hz with the Sampling Frequency options.
  
  
• Select tab Post Processing
  
  
  
• Check the box YV12 for DivX ;-)
  (this is one of the new features of the XiS release)
  
• Check the box No letterboxing
  
• Check the box Keep aspect ratio
  
• Push the button Show Output Pad
  (the button in the lower right corner of Letterbox, Cropping...)
  
  This will bring up the following window (with a sample picture below it):
  
  
  a)Click on the button with ">>" on it and choose Autocrop->Don't crop picture
  (after that you should see a dotted line just around the picture excluding the black widescreen bars, for further control you may drag'n'drop these lines if the autocrop feature works not as you expected)
  b)Push the button OK
  
  
• Select tab Files
  
  
  
• Choose where to save the final AVI-File
  
  
• Select tab General
  
  
  
• Check the box Compile Whole File
  
• Hit the OK Button
  
  
• Now you're back at the main window
• Choose menu Options -> Output Format Options
  
  
  
• On Video Codec choose DivX Codec 4.01
• Choose appropriate settings in Audio Codec
  
  a)Multiplexing Dolby Digital AC3 Stream with AVI:
  Just leave the Audio Codec at "<< Uncompressed PCM Audio >>"
  
  b)Multiplexing MP3 or OGG Audio streams with AVI:
  Choose codec and bitrate of choice in the Audio Codec pane
  
  
• Now the compression configurator will show up.
  
  
  
• Use the Bitrate Slider in General Parameters and move it to the calculated bitrate for the video part
• Set Maximum key frame interval to a value of your choice
  (the lesser the bitrate the higher the timeshift between keyframes should be to avoid dropping frames !!!)
  
• Hit OK twice and we're back in the menu
  
  
• Now choose menu Run...->Start Conversion
  
• Your movie is being converted

IMPORTANT:
It seems that the MPEG4-Codec is a kind of a VBR CoDec (Variable BitRate Codec). So when your resulting AVI file is too small you can either choose to recompress video again or use a higher bitrate for audio-compression. After finishing with video-conversion refer to the audio decompression section.

In case you already encoded audio you don't need to refer to the audio decompression section but you may proceed to Using VirtualDub to split the movie !