DIVXCOMP(1)

📦 version 0.1, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 DIVXCOMP 💖

okay bestie, welcome to divxcomp, section 1 of the manual pages 🎀 — she's a tiny little calculator and she's about to become your roman empire.

✨ NAME ✨

divxcomp — Calculate approx. size for ripped avi movies 🍓

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

divxcomp

that's it. that's the whole synopsis. no flags, no args, no drama. she just is 💅

divxcomp is (c) 2003 by Marc Leeman <mleeman@users.sourceforge.net> 👑

no cap, respect the author, he's been holding it down since 2003 and that's lowkey iconic.

🎀 DESCRIPTIONS 🎀

(yes it's plural. she's extra like that. we love her for it 🫶)

so. divxcomp is a X(7) based calculator — literally a lil graphical bestie — whose whole job is to give you an average for the DivX :-) bit-rates you'd use to encode avi movies. 🌈

here's the tea, and it's giving chaotic energy: DivX :-) 4.x is extremely difficult to calculate, because the size of your video changes depending on the amount of movement and colors. so this thing gives you an average, not a prophecy. your results may be higher or lower than the specified size! 😭 not a bug, just the vibe of the format.

a 2 pass rip should normally give much better quality than a 1 pass rip, and mostly also produce a smaller file size. the way that works?? honestly iconic. but it is however impossible to calculate this accurately, so what you're getting is an intelligent guess. bestie she is guessing. with confidence. 💀

and the author is like, very clear about this: "I will not take responsibility for any miscalculations or damages caused by this." so don't come for her when your rip comes out weird. she warned you. periodt. 🙈

💀 BUGS 💀

None known. ✨

(flawless. unbothered. moisturized. in her lane. focused. flourishing. 🌸)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

This man page was written by Samuele Giovanni Tonon <samu@debian.org> with the help of Helge Kreutzmann <kreutzm@itp.uni-hannover.de>, for the Debian GNU/Linux project but may be used by others. 🫶

two absolute legends collaborating on documentation?? the way that they ate and left no crumbs. 🎀

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💅 divxcomp, DIVXCOMP(1), dated 18 August 2003 — thank you for coming to my ted talk, ily, go encode something beautiful 🌈💖✨

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