codec help

WBJ · Post by **WBJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 10:49 am

Ok, ive been using the dvd2avi and some of the codecs i use to compress the footage makes it worst then it already is. So i was wondering if any knows of a good or decent codec i can use.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:52 am

http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.ed ... ffyuv.html

don't use dvd2avi (now available dgindex) to compress footage. only use it to index your dvd streams. use virtualdub to compress. see guides.

WBJ · Post by **WBJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:10 pm

Ive only been experimenting with dvd2avi only recently so im not sure what you mean by only use it to index my dvd streams. Also which guides should I look at?

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 1:37 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/
this one in particular

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:00 pm

Save project files (.D2V) with DVD2AVI, not actual AVI files.

Those .D2Vs can then be loaded via AVISynth's <b>MPEG2Source()</b> command into programs like VirtualDubMod (or even loaded directly into TMPGEnc), which are better at converting.

Or, if your editing software supports it, you can use the AVS scripts directly.

But I must emphasize that the .D2V files are worthless without the original .VOBs.

For a more detailed explanation, check the link DWP gave.

WBJ · Post by **WBJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:23 pm

is there a better tutorial for this thing, i keep getting errors after writing the script and trying to import to virtual dub.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:52 pm

What kind of errors?

If you're using an older version of VDub(/Mod), <i>don't</i> open your scripts with the "Open file via AVISynth..." command, as counterintuitive as that sounds. Just open it like you'd open an .AVI file.

WBJ · Post by **WBJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:18 pm

The 2 errors I always receive are:
1. The scripts return value was not a video clip
2. Script error: expected C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\My.avs, line 1. Column 3

And I guess I do have an old virtual dub it had no option of via AviSynth. The one I had was1.5.10 so right now Ill look for an updated one.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 4:51 pm

WBJ wrote:The 2 errors I always receive are:
1. The scripts return value was not a video clip

That means there's something wrong with the way you wrote your script. Could you post your script?

WBJ wrote:And I guess I do have an old virtual dub it had no option of via AviSynth. The one I had was1.5.10 so right now Ill look for an updated one.

No no, I was saying that the older versions of VDubMod (1.4.x) DO have the "Open file via AVISynth" option; the newer ones don't (explicitly -- the functionality is now built into the Open... dialog and is a lot more useful). If you have 1.5.10, you should be fine.

WBJ · Post by **WBJ** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 5:29 pm

Good thing you posted before I downloaded the file, not like it would have matter but… any way here’s what I wrote:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
MPEG2Source("C:\Program Files\My.d2v",ipp=true,cpu=4,upconv=true,info=true)

All I want to do is to get the best possible footages, that’s all.