Does Mpeg-2 or Divx produce better quality picture recording?

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I know Divx uses Mpeg-4 and will produce the smaller file size but I'm more worried about picture quality since I'm only looking at recording short stretches from a analog tv tuner. The tuners I've looked at mostly record in Mpeg-2 but one does DivX 2. Is it better to go for DivX for quality?
 
The quality of the picture recording depends on many more thing other than codec like - Source quality, resolution, bit-rate and other things.
But if all the other things are constant, divx will give a better quality output compared to mpeg-2.
But make sure the tuner that does divx2 is recording at same resolution & bit rate if not better as the others. Else the results can be bad compared to others also.
 
personally i prefer the DivX2 format, sometimes when you use the mpeg-4 format the encoder does not keep the original aspect ratio....but I'm not an expert thats just my opinion.
 
personally i prefer the DivX2 format, sometimes when you use the mpeg-4 format the encoder does not keep the original aspect ratio....but I'm not an expert thats just my opinion.
 
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