Ripping streams from Quicktime files

taeli · Post by **taeli** » Tue May 18, 2004 5:51 am

This isn't directly AMV related, but lots of people here seem to know what they're doing when it comes to video, so I was

I downloaded a quicktime video from the web, and it's pretty bad quality, but I don't mind because I love the film. Anyway it has this weird tacked on overlay in the top right. When I load the video file in Vegas tho it's not there, so I'm guessing it's done with some sort of Applescript overlay. Normally I wouldn't mind the logo, but it makes the video really jerky in fullscreen mode when I'm watching it in Media Player Classic. Re-rendering the video from Vegas leaves me with either a file with dramatically reduced quality file from xvid, or a huge file from a lossless codec. What I'm asking is is there anyway of performing a direct stream copy of the audio and video streams to another quicktime file?

Thanks.

(if anyone's interested, the film is here, it's a short film in Mandarin with eng subs called Bus 44, and it's really good)

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:21 pm

You should be able to do this using microsoft's little directshow interface known as graphedit. If you have the 3ivX filters installed, simply render the mov, delete every filter after the 3ivx splitter, go to Graph>Insert Filters>DirectShow and insert an avi mux and filewriter. Then just connect the output of the splitter to the input of the muxer and the output of the muxer into the filewriter. Granted, you'll probably need ffdshow to play it from the avi, and you probably won't get the sound. But it's the only way I know of :|

Tab. · Post by **Tab.** » Tue May 18, 2004 2:22 pm

Oh yeah, you could always export the sound from Vegas as pcm or mp3 and then add that in later.

NME · Post by **NME** » Tue May 18, 2004 7:17 pm

Jonny Bebop · Post by **Jonny Bebop** » Wed May 19, 2004 4:41 am

If you name the audio file the exact same as the video file and keep them in the same folder then media player classic will load in the audio automatically for you once you play the video

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taeli · Post by **taeli** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:05 pm

I couldn't get it to work (it couldn't construct the graph from the quicktime file, error code 0x80040111) but I've found the tool useful for something I was trying to do a few months ago where I gave up in sheer frustration on a different quicktime file.

As for this vid I spent a little time trying different filters on a huffy export of the video stream from Vegas. I've just about managed to create a fairly nice xvid file without too much quality loss. (Albiet at at 60mb instead of 20mb). I think I'm a bit better at filtering now as an extra bonus XD. Interestingly, the video does look better if I add a 15% noise filter in ffdshow when I'm watching it. Maybe I over smoothed it.

Now back to the revision grindstone lol, this was my relaxing break after my last exam.

Cheers for the pointers to that program.