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Hello chaps,

What's the best software for this? Free if possible, but am willing to splash out if not.

Divx Pro is a safe bet

http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/converter

I have used a product called Super... seems ok

Ah, forgot to mention Format Factory. It's free and will convert pretty much anything to pretty much anything else.

I think I've used this but if I remember, it looked like a sack of crap.

It doesn't mention DivX at all, HD or otherwise. I get confused about all these different containers, though, so I may be missing something.

Hang on, isn't mkv the container for DivX HD files? If something says it supports DivX HD files, does that mean it'll play mkv files without any faffing?

Format Factory can output Divx compliant files, it just doesn't use the Divx brand.

You need to use All to MP4 > Output Setting > HD 1280 x 720 XVID Widescreen (or whatever you need)

Change Video Encode to MPEG4(Divx) and you should, maybe, just maybe, be ok.

Good luck

On further digging, you could probably do the same with All to MKV as that defaults to DIVX.

You may be right about MKV being the default.

Depends on the codec inside

AVI, MKV etc... are all just containers for encoded video and audio. MKVs usually contain H.264 encoded video files, but I have no idea if that is synonymous with DivX HD

Super is great, but it assumes you know exactly how to setup what you want to get out at the end, and is just a poor gui front end to FFMPEG as far as I recall, but better than using the command line.

Personally I do all my encoding using Handbrake these days, not sure if it does DivX HD though...

So basically, it seems I'm not sure about anything.

Hope that helps

Thanks, chaps. I guess it's going to be a case of 'suck it and see'.