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Postby Phantasmagoriat » Wed Jan 16, 2008 8:16 pm

if you follow that step by step, you will be able to do it.

you must be stuck somewhere with the terms [to make a New Folder... right click your desktop...]
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:17 am

He tried, but:

Of course they don't make any sense to me, but I gave it a shot anyway!!
I followed the proceedure step-by-step. Everything seemed to be in order until the time came to open the "script" file in VdubMod. I go to "Run Script" and when I click on the AVS file I get the splendid message "Parse error."
Needless to say I cannot get past this point...and I cannot find any helpful info about it's cause or solution.
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Postby Phantasmagoriat » Thu Jan 17, 2008 11:48 am

okay, that sounds manageable. The computer you're using doesn't seem to have a media splitter installed. [which makes me wonder how you have been playing the files; I'm guessing VLC... but this is beside the point...] Install the CCCP and you should have one, then try again.

-make sure you have the full amvapp installed [not just the parts you thought you needed]
-if that doesn't work, try directshowsource() instead of avisource(), and post any error messages that may/not occur
-if that doesn't work, we'll have to find out what sort of source files you are trying to open:
..[maybe post how you got/made them]
..the extension will tell you its container [been assuming .avi],
..gspotwill tell you what type of video stream, and audio stream within it.
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:33 pm

This is really going over our heads...
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Thu Jan 17, 2008 4:22 pm

Kionon, are you still typing up that thing you said?O_o
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:49 am

And he tried that other stuff you suggested and said the following:


OK, I did all of that. I am still getting the "parse error." I installed and ran the video through Gspot, but I don't see any information about audio and video streams or whatever. I am sure it is being displayed, but I don't know where.

Anyway, the videos were recorded with Intervideo Windvd Creator 3. They were originally recorded in the MPEG2 format as that was my only option. I then converted them to WMV files. That is what we have right now...
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Postby Athena » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:23 am

SyberiaWinx wrote:Kionon, are you still typing up that thing you said?O_o


Yeah, I am. It would help if you gave me as much information about your source material, since you're worried about cutting stuff off:

Resolution
Aspect Ratio
Current Codec/Container

etc
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:26 am

He's trying to find out, but he has no idea currently. The other poster had him downloading a lot of stuff, so who knows. He keeps having that same parse error problem.
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Postby Athena » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:29 am

SyberiaWinx wrote:He's trying to find out, but he has no idea currently. The other poster had him downloading a lot of stuff, so who knows. He keeps having that same parse error problem.


Understood. The more information we have, the more we can help. Phantasm knows his stuff too. We may have different approaches depending on your provided information, but we'll both try to steer you the right direction.
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:34 am

Here's what he came up with:

Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution= 320x240
Codec= 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3
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Postby Athena » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:37 am

SyberiaWinx wrote:Here's what he came up with:

Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution= 320x240
Codec= 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3


O_O

Uhm. Wait. What?

320x240 is only really acceptable for portable video players these days, and this is your source? Your source should be more like 640x480 or 720x480 if it's 4:3 (and the latter needs to be corrected to the former).

MP3 is the audio codec for the source. Not the video codec.
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Fri Jan 18, 2008 2:46 am

He just told me. Video is: XVID MPG4. I THINK he resized them to that. The quality as it is could be better, so I don't even want to think about what they looked like at that size. A former friend of mind ripped the same scenes in much better quality, but it might be because of different recorders.
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Postby Athena » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:50 am

Anyway, the videos were recorded with Intervideo Windvd Creator 3. They were originally recorded in the MPEG2 format as that was my only option. I then converted them to WMV files. That is what we have right now...


SyberiaWinx wrote:He just told me. Video is: XVID MPG4. I THINK he resized them to that. The quality as it is could be better, so I don't even want to think about what they looked like at that size. A former friend of mind ripped the same scenes in much better quality, but it might be because of different recorders.


Okay let me get this straight:

He had perfectly good MPEG2 files which the normal pre-processing steps could have been applied to, and then he converted them into XVID video, MP3 audio, in a WMV container at a resolution of 320x240?
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Postby SyberiaWinx » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:54 am

I never saw the original files, but I would assume the quality was worse due to the larger size. He shrunk them to make them look better and lessen the rather big filesize, which is also why he chose wmv. Mpeg2 does not work in my video editor and is HUGE in terms of size. He's new to all this and is going through a lot of trouble to get the scenes.
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Postby Athena » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:00 am

SyberiaWinx wrote:I never saw the original files, but I would assume the quality was worse due to the larger size. He shrunk them to make them look better and lessen the rather big filesize, which is also why he chose wmv. Mpeg2 does not work in my video editor and is HUGE in terms of size. He's new to all this and is going through a lot of trouble to get the scenes.


I presume this means that he did not set a high enough bitrate on the initial capture. Does he still have the source? Can he capture it again? What is the source in question, for that matter?

Most of us want to watch AMVs at full screen, so downscaling really doesn't help much.

Also, if XVID is the codec, then it shrunk the filesize, not the fact it was placed inside the WMV container.

What is your editor? Established pre-processing steps should be enough to make any initial MPEG2 source into lossless editable files.
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