getting video from dvds without it being chopy?

foxfirerage · Post by **foxfirerage** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 1:56 am

am i alone all the video from my dvds i get useing virtualdubmod is chopy and cant be used i have asked about this befor and at many othere places i see all kinds of good amvs do u all just use downloads ????
i have so many good dvds i could use but it wont come out useable please please help im begging

AMVfreak · Post by **AMVfreak** » Sun Jan 09, 2005 2:42 am

Ripping DVD footage:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... ogetb.html

foxfirerage · Post by **foxfirerage** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 2:27 pm

ok guss i said that wrong ummm i got the stuff off the dvd ok but when i take that file it gives me and run it through the virtualdubmod it comes out chopy as hell and i need the dubmod to get it into windows movie maker so what i guss im asking is do u know a better file converter

Kai Stromler · Post by **Kai Stromler** » Mon Jan 10, 2005 4:17 pm

What codec are you using to compress the video with in VDubMod? What are your system specs? What, if any, AviSynth processing are you doing?

"Choppy" video can be one of any number of things, only a few of which will make it useless. If you're using the telecide() function of AviSynth, be sure that you've specified the right field order. For most North American DVDs this should be order 0; for Japanese DVDs, it's usually order 1. Try the other one and see if it makes the picture look better or worse.

The most likely case is that you haven't selected a codec in VDubMod, and it is exporting as uncompressed RGB, which your computer cannot handle in playback. Try picking a different codec or upgrading your hardware. IIRC the guides have information on various editing codecs. If it's a hardware issue, more RAM (when properly checked) never hurt an editing station.

hth,

--K

foxfirerage · Post by **foxfirerage** » Tue Jan 11, 2005 12:56 am

thank u ill try to figure out what u just said and fix it lol
i dont think i was useing a codec on it so that might be it and i dont know about that 1, 0 thing eather so ill check it out

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Wed Jan 12, 2005 3:40 pm

Kai Stromler wrote:The most likely case is that you haven't selected a codec in VDubMod, and it is exporting as uncompressed RGB, which your computer cannot handle in playback

That's a good answer, I didn't think of that at first, but it would have been something I'd have got to

I was thinking more of a CPU bottleneck. If you are compressing videos with newer codecs like XviD/DivX etc, it could be the fact that the processor isn't fast enough to decode the frames in real time, particularly so if you used advanced features such as GMC or Luma Masking (I think it's referred to as Adaptive Encoding in XviD)

The other possibility is the video/graphics driver. Most video hardware has MPEG decoding built into it, and so is accelerated, whereas something like XviD uses an active window which requires drivers for the hardware to process it more efficiently.

foxfirerage · Post by **foxfirerage** » Fri Jan 14, 2005 2:44 pm

thanks i got it all to work now i can start geting stuff done ...as soon as i clear some room for this stuff -_- but thank u veary veary much ^-^