weird vfapi problem

hanitizer · Post by **hanitizer** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 1:24 am

i've already tried converting divx compressed avis into fake avis via vfapi. it worked

@Zarxrax or anyone else out there ^^

so would this process be as good as changing xvid/divx/h264 clips to lagarith or huffyuv first?

@x_rex30

i'll take note of what you said ^_^

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:23 am

Is it as good, no way. It will probably *work*, but it will be slow as hell. Depending on the video, you might have up to about 300 or so frames in between keyframes. This means if you want to seek to a certain frame, you have to sit there and wait while it decodes a couple hundred other frames before it can display the one you want. You basically can't scrub the timeline backwards, and going forwards is slow too.

hanitizer · Post by **hanitizer** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:21 pm

well, i tried importing those fake avis from the divx footage i've made. apparently it wasn't really slow. actually it was just about as fast as using Vobs directly into Vegas (like the vobs of macross zero and yuyu hakusho i used from the dvds) ^_^. i was actually able to use 9 layers (10 including the sound file) and made it play on the preview window smoothly after several tries (which i haven't been able to do using vobs yet) ^_^

but the downside to making fake avis out of divx compressed footage is that the fake avis were as big as the divx compressed files vis a vis the fake avis from the .d2v files when getting the source from dvds. but i guess 200+megs for one complete episode is still a lot smaller than a few minutes using lagarith or huffyuv...