I have been doing video work ever since the days of Laser discs and VCRs with flying erase heads. Formats have come and gone and so has technologies. The internet has vastly helped those of us in special interest groups to be able to share our knowledge, resources, ideas and information with each other so much quicker and easily than we have ever imagined.

In the infamed days of the early internet and Napster, music file sharing gave us the defacto term MP3. It propelled the music revolution into smaller, lighter and longer playing devices than that of tape, CD or MiniDisc. Such pioneering gave us the standard called MP3.

Well, unfortunately, video didn't go this route. Video had too many developers who wanted in on this internet thing. Many wanted money for their technology. Some where just too big, some were just too flakey. As a result, no set standard or even defacto came out of this mess. However, even in the alight of all that mess, some manufactures have chosen DVIX encoding for AVI files for some of their machines like DVD players.

So here is a tutorial on how to use programs out there to make these corrections and standardize your video collection.

This tutorial will start you on the ground level basics. From that I will build on the knowledge for the next chapters. I have also illustrated by use of a flow chart the chapters and the order in which you learn and build your video encoding skills.