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Originally Posted by bu((aneer
Do you accept donations? 
Question-
Is 320x240 the best size to use for web video?
I bought some content dvds. I seem to be losing alot of quality when I convert them to .wmv. This is how I am doing them:
1.Copy VOB files to harddrive.
2.Split VOB files into 7 smaller ones.
3.Use Flask to convert the VOB files into raw AVI files. I want to change the size to 400x300, but it seems I need to keep to multiples of 16 so I have to use the size 400x304!
4.Use cleaner to encode them into .wmv
Any better way of doing it?
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Of course I accept donations
I would say that 320x240 is the optimal size for web. With a 320x240 video, you don't need to compress TOO much to give a fairly good result. If you keep the file at 720x480 or 640x480, you'll have to compress it much more to get it down to an acceptable file size.
BUT, here's a hint if you want to reduce the size of the file a WEE bit more. Most videos come to you at 29.97 fps. Reduce it down to 24 fps. The difference isn't noticeable, but the reduced file size will be.
As for your DVD problem, I figure that your video is coming in at 720x480 (thats the standard DVD format). First thing you might want to do is convert your video to 640x480 when rendering the AVI.
Now I see you're using alot of programs to do your work, but of course, you can always do all of this in one program, such as Premiere.
When you split up the videos, do you do any editing? or do you just split them up, if so, you could probably skip the AVI process by getting a WMV splitter.
Basically you'd just take your VOB files, convert them into the WMV size you want and get a WMV splitter to seperate your files. You'd probably save 1-2 hours of render time.