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Postby Vanity » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:39 pm

Oki i have been putting lagarith avi.'s on my pc from my dvd footage and my pc says that im running out of disk space what should i do?
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Postby Kariudo » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:50 pm

only encode the small clips that you need with lagarith instead of entire episodes/disks

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JaddziaDax wrote:open the video file in virtualdub mod go to video->compression->Huffyuv

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use those to mark the beginning and the end of the "clips" you want so you can save room
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huffyuv makes large files, so planning more and making clips is a good thing to do if you have limited space.
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Postby LivingFlame » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:54 pm

A few options.

1) If you aren't already, make clips in Vdub and don't transcode entire episodes at once.

2) Bypass lossless compression entirely and use VFAPI to create fake .avi's. (Guide)
Be aware that this option will be more system intensive, so playback may suffer a bit while you're editing if your computer isn't up to snuff, especially if you have very many filters in your script.
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Postby Vanity » Sun Sep 14, 2008 11:56 pm

darn i wish i could do that but im using Netflix and i really don;t wanna keep renting the Dvdz over and over that i need. is there anyway i could store the lagarith files on a cd or external Hardrive?
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Postby Kariudo » Mon Sep 15, 2008 12:25 am

you aren't storing the .vob files?
they take up space, but much less than a lagarith encode of an episode. You then make a script to open your d2v file and use that to make clips.

externals work just fine, but you may run into problems with the d2v files if your drive name changes (in which case you either edit the d2v file or re-index your vobs)
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Postby NS » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:18 pm

Or you could Rip the video and audio from the DVDs you get from netflix and then burn them to blank discs. It's much cheaper, although I have done that with a couple things I still buy anime because I like it :3... but yah, you can just rip and burn...or buy a bigger hard drive as suggested before.
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Postby Vanity » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:31 pm

so your saying that i should keep all the d2v files from the episodes and vdubmod it. for just the clips i need? but would the d2v files take up space too or no?
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Postby Kariudo » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:33 pm

the vobs take up the most space...d2v files are only a few KB each
you have to have to vob files for the d2v files to actually do anything
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Postby Vanity » Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:49 pm

darn i forgot about that=[. so if i avi frameserver or whatever will my footage still be hq?
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Postby LivingFlame » Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:02 pm

Whatever you see from you .avs script in Vdub is the quality that frameserving with VFAPI will get you. All it does is wrap the .avs or .d2v file in an .avi container, thus creating the AVI header, which is what an editing program will look for. If you disable audio, the fake .avi files will take up very little space.

For example, I have a fake .avi of episode 5 of Azumanga Daioh (that's the whole episode) sitting on my computer (without audio), and it takes up a whopping 2.52 MB. Just be sure to keep the VOB files where they were when you indexed them.

Again, test it out and be sure your computer can keep up with a frameserved .avi.
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Postby Vanity » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:47 pm

meh. ima just disc copy the dvds and just ripp them for just the Clips i need =].
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Postby JaddziaDax » Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:48 pm

when i had limited hd space, i would go one dvd at a time.... snag the scenes i wanted, then deleted the vobs... and did the next DVD
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