Graphical distortions in XviD encoded vid.

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 7:39 pm

So I'm attempting to encode my latest vid according to the EADFAG Guide (Thanks to everyone who offered suggestions on encoding. I appreciate it!) My problem is I'm getting some graphical glitches in the final encode. Generally, they're around the edges, and they're pretty blatant.

Here's an example of a few of them. Let me know if this link doesn't work, I'll flip a couple settings and make it Public.

http://pics.livejournal.com/mizanchan/gallery/0004carb

Any help that you can give would be appreciated.

(Before I forget, the clips are all Lagarith encoded, saved on Premiere Elements 4 as Microsoft AVI, and encoded in VDM in XviD as per the guide.)

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:04 pm

are you compressing from premiere?

I've heard that some versions you can only export uncompressed or else it gives you issues...

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:08 pm

The short answer is no.

I'm exporting it from Premiere Elements 4 as a MS AVI (uncompressed AVI is a rather huge file for my laptop's hard drive), then compressing it in VirtualDubMod.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:17 pm

do you have an external you can export it to?

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:20 pm

I do have one, at that. I use it primarily for backups and such, but I think I can make an exception for this.

If I'm following what you're saying correctly, I export it uncompressed to my backup (external) HD, then compress it from there? What would be a good way to compress it?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:42 pm

well either follow what the eadfag guide says for XVID or you can compress with zarxgui

Angelic_Sabyne · Post by **Angelic_Sabyne** » Fri Jul 04, 2008 8:55 pm

Thank you for the tip, Jaddzia. I'll give it a go.

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:49 am

The size of those pictures says 640x426? is that the actual output resolution you are using?

If its 4:3 it should be 640x480. That could by why it's doing that. It's an odd resolution for the codec to process so it throws junk.

Pwolf

Pwolf · Post by **Pwolf** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:51 am

Pwolf wrote:The size of those pictures says 640x426? is that the actual output resolution you are using?

If its 4:3 it should be 640x480. That could by why it's doing that. It's an odd resolution for the codec to process so it throws junk.

Pwolf

NM, they are 720x480... didn't click on the image to see the whole thing.

Pwolf

Zero1 · Post by **Zero1** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 12:30 am

I think there have been problems with Lagarith before. Try using different options, or use HuffYUV. If you have FFDShow, you can use it's HuffYUV which has a YV12 mode.