T10 video conversion settings

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if you want to use third-party software to perform video conversions, then you'll discover that "the T10 video format" (*.svi) is highly sensitive to conversion settings (or video specifications) and it is extremely difficult to reproduce the settings, e.g. with versatile popular conversion tools such as SUPER© - by eRightSoft.

when you start Emodio software it asks you to update/upgrade. After the update, Emodio's version is 1.0.8.8 (or 6.0.8.8), Sept 2010. It will also ask you to update (=install) a codec pack: MyFree Codec Pack 09c beta.

the original test video thx to torrent is

General
Complete name                    : ***.avi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 702 MiB
Duration                         : 2h 33mn
Overall bit rate                 : 641 Kbps
Movie name                       : ***
Director                         : ***
Subject                          : ***
Writing application              : Nandub v1.0rc2
Writing library                  : Nandub build 1852/release

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format settings, BVOP            : 1
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Muxing mode                      : Packed bitstream
Codec ID                         : DX50
Codec ID/Hint                    : DivX 5
Duration                         : 2h 33mn
Bit rate                         : 494 Kbps
Width                            : 480 pixels
Height                           : 208 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 2.35:1
Frame rate                       : 25.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.198
Stream size                      : 540 MiB (77%)
Writing library                  : DivX 5.2.1 (WaffleDay) (UTC 2004-09-08)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Mode                             : Joint stereo
Mode extension                   : MS Stereo
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 2h 33mn
Bit rate mode                    : Variable
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 147 MiB (21%)
Alignment                        : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 24 ms (0.60 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration     : 468 ms
Writing library                  : LAME3.96r
Encoding settings                : -m j -V 4 -q 3 -lowpass 17.5 --abr 128

And this converts to, with Emodio's setting "High Quality":

General
Complete name                    : ***.svi
Format                           : AVI
Format/Info                      : Audio Video Interleave
File size                        : 1.04 GiB
Duration                         : 2h 32mn
Overall bit rate                 : 971 Kbps
Writing application              : SSGP

Video
ID                               : 0
Format                           : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile                   : Simple@L1
Format settings, BVOP            : No
Format settings, QPel            : No
Format settings, GMC             : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix          : Default (H.263)
Codec ID                         : XVID
Codec ID/Hint                    : XviD
Duration                         : 2h 32mn
Bit rate                         : 831 Kbps
Width                            : 320 pixels
Height                           : 240 pixels
Display aspect ratio             : 4:3
Frame rate                       : 30.000 fps
Color space                      : YUV
Chroma subsampling               : 4:2:0
Bit depth                        : 8 bits
Scan type                        : Progressive
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)               : 0.361
Stream size                      : 909 MiB (86%)
Writing library                  : XviD 1.1.0 Beta2 (UTC 2005-04-04)

Audio
ID                               : 1
Format                           : MPEG Audio
Format version                   : Version 1
Format profile                   : Layer 3
Codec ID                         : 55
Codec ID/Hint                    : MP3
Duration                         : 2h 32mn
Bit rate mode                    : Constant
Bit rate                         : 128 Kbps
Channel(s)                       : 2 channels
Sampling rate                    : 44.1 KHz
Compression mode                 : Lossy
Stream size                      : 140 MiB (13%)
Alignment                        : Split accross interleaves
Interleave, duration             : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)

Note that the video, although its display dimensions has decreased, has increased in file size! There are other tools ("third-party") which support the conversion to T10-compatible *.SVI files, so let's compare..

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