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What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby hasteroth » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:48 pm

Dunno if it exists yet but I'm too lazy too check.

Use FFVideoSource()

And open the damn thing in Virtual Dub.

Basically this is for people who don't have the brain capacity to figure it out for themselves. It's essentially the exact same thing you'd do with an .mkv

Btw you might wanna throw a little KillAudio() in there too.

I cannot express this enough though, do not use downloaded footage.
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby FunStorm » Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:59 pm

hasteroth wrote:Use FFVideoSource()

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You might wanna throw a little KillAudio() in there too.

When you are using FFVideoSource() you are already killing audio. And imho this all is kinda obvious to anyone who is capable of working with AviSynth.
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby hasteroth » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:07 pm

FunStorm wrote:
hasteroth wrote:Use FFVideoSource()

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You might wanna throw a little KillAudio() in there too.

When you are using FFVideoSource() you are already killing audio. And imho this all is kinda obvious to anyone who is capable of working with AviSynth.


Obviously. And w/e killaudio() unnecessary. Leave it out

hasteroth wrote:Basically this is for people who don't have the brain capacity to figure it out for themselves. It's essentially the exact same thing you'd do with an .mkv


Yeah. I was bored. I've just spent an hour explaining this to someone else. Figured I may as well throw it here.
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby mirkosp » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:21 pm

Perhaps if you read the guides in the whole you'd know it's covered in there already and you could just point to there when someone asks since it's explained better.

Also:

hasteroth wrote:I cannot express this enough though, do not use downloaded footage.


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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby Qyot27 » Tue Aug 18, 2009 3:23 pm

The basic problem isn't that the info isn't out there, it's that people are too lazy to use the damn Search option. Or for that matter, actually read down the fucking page. Seriously, you can often have 5 or 6 'How can MKV convert I should?' topics on the first screen of many of the Video forums here. People are just inept and refuse to maintain proper etiquette; they'd prefer to have everything handed to them instead. Even though it was answered the exact same way not three topics down from the one they started.

This is one reason why I prefer the way Doom9 handles it - you can't post for two weeks after signing up in order to learn the ropes and lurk, and threads can be shut down for being so exhaustingly redundant. Maybe it comes off as more elitist, but there's no excuse for constantly having to repeat ourselves like that.

How about this: a contextually-adaptive forum robot that automatically responds with the standard methodology when the words 'convert' and 'MKV' or 'MP4' show up in the first post of a topic.
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby Scintilla » Tue Aug 18, 2009 7:15 pm

Qyot27 wrote:How about this: a contextually-adaptive forum robot that automatically responds with the standard methodology when the words 'convert' and 'MKV' or 'MP4' show up in the first post of a topic.

That sounds like me four years ago.
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby Bakadeshi » Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:47 am

Does amvapp actually come with ffmpegsource now? I had to download mine separately, and i'm using amvapp 3.0.

and btw you should mention that you should use ffmpegsource (or variations of it like ffvideosource) for anything that you'd use Directshowsource for since its frame accurate (good for editing), while the later is not. (bad for editing)
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby mirkosp » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:25 am

Bakadeshi wrote:Does amvapp actually come with ffmpegsource now? I had to download mine separately, and i'm using amvapp 3.0.

and btw you should mention that you should use ffmpegsource (or variations of it like ffvideosource) for anything that you'd use Directshowsource for since its frame accurate (good for editing), while the later is not. (bad for editing)


Yeah, the amvapp 3.0 stable does have ffmpegsource2, but it wasn't there in the beta. A thing I'd like to point out is that DSS2 is frame accurate too, though, and I find it better for example for .m2ts files, which aren't frame accurate with ffmpegsource/2.

And yes, I'm aware of dgavcindex, but I find it terribly slow, dss2 works faster for me.
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Re: What to do if you are stuck with an .mp4 file.

Postby Qyot27 » Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:40 am

I will note, however, that the version of FFmpegSource2 that it 3.0 includes is several versions old (which one in particular, I'm not sure). The plugin is now no longer considered beta, as of 2.11.
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