# Does anyone know of a program that can convert Divx to mpeg?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 4, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235 "2002-08-04T00:05:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![WenisPinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/4da419/32.png) [@WenisPinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WenisPinkle)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235/1 "2002-08-04T00:05:44Z")

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Is this even possible?

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235/2 "2002-08-04T00:21:35Z")

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DivX _is_ MPEG4. I am not sure I undrestand your question.

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**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235/3 "2002-08-04T01:23:50Z")

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You can have MPEG without DivX. They are not the same thing.

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**Author:** ![Slugworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4bbf92/32.png) [@Slugworth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slugworth)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235/4 "2002-08-04T01:29:15Z")

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[www.vcdhelp.com](http://www.vcdhelp.com) will have information on converting. I prefer TMPGEnc.

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**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235/5 "2002-08-04T01:34:27Z")

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There may be a better solution, depending on why you want to convert. You can decode the DivX (MPEG 4) and re-encode it as MPEG 1 or 2, but it’ll take all night, and you’ll either lose a lot of quality or gain a lot of file size.

For example, if you just want to encode a DivX movie as a VCD so you can watch it on your TV, you might want to get a TV-out card instead.

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**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2002, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-know-of-a-program-that-can-convert-divx-to-mpeg/122235/6 "2002-08-04T04:46:22Z")

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TMPG can do it, at [www.tmpgenc.com](http://www.tmpgenc.com). However, to get the same quality, you need to go MPEG-2, and the file size will be HUGE! I took at 600 meg Divx file, TMPG gave me an estimated size of 6 GB.