Jim wrote: > Say I miss an episode of my favorite show. I'd be recoding bittorrent > downloaded divx/xvid video (usually "HD" 16:9) to mpeg2. I don't need the > program to do magic, I'm just looking for the easiest, most streamlined > solution. I really like to watch my favorite shows on my big screen, but > too much hassle = screw it, I'll watch it on my laptop :-) > There are several tools that can do this, but AFAIK all require you to specify the aspect ratio. This shouldn't be a lot of trouble, though...just open the Divx/Xvid file. A very quick glance will tell you whether it's 4:3 or 16:9.
HCEnc is a free mpeg2 encoder that works rather well, and there's some presets so it should just take a couple of clicks. --chris
