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dominic01

06-23-2003 10:56 PM

Recording Video: Suggest best capture format

Couple of days back I captured Ben-hur movie from TV with following format

640x480
MPEG2
4000 bitrate
29.9 fps
5.2 GB file size
3hr 40 min

Suggest me a good KVCD format to store it in CDs (Max of two).

Regards
Dominic

kwag	06-23-2003 10:59 PM

First of all, you need to IVTC that movie, because the the original was DEFINITELY shot FILM :)
I thought Ben Hur was longer than that :!:
Anyway, 3 hours and 40 minutes should go fine on two CDs at 528x480. Make a small sample with predicted CQ and see if the quality is ok. If not, then go for 352x480, and I'm sure it will look pristine on two CDs ;)

-kwag

dominic01

06-23-2003 11:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kwag

First of all, you need to IVTC that movie, because the the original was DEFINITELY shot FILM :)

I'm sorry. What is IVTC?

Dominic

kwag	06-23-2003 11:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dominic01

I'm sorry. What is IVTC?

Dominic

Inverse Telecine. You have to use the lines:

Code:

 ## Your MPEG2source or AvisSource line here ###

Telecide()

Decimate()

after your source line in your .avs script.
Then you can encode at 23.976fps.

-kwag

kwag	06-23-2003 11:13 PM

Here's some information related to IVTC: http://www.inmatrix.com/articles/ivtcsynth.shtml

-kwag

dominic01

06-23-2003 11:30 PM

Currently I have two lines in the script

LoadPlugin("D:\DVD_SVCD_VCD\MovieStacker1.1.1\Filt ers\MPEG2Dec3.dll"
Mpeg2Source("D:\WorkArea\BenHur0.mpg")

When I try to open it with WMPlayer I am getting "MPEG2Source: Coudnt open file Line 2".

Is there any good documentation on AviSynth usage? How to debug and how to run properly etc. (Mainly for newbie like me).

Thanks and Regards
Dominic

Latexxx

06-24-2003 02:00 AM

You need first create .d2v file from your mpeg using dvd2avi (file -> save project or something like that) and then put something like mpeg2source("movie.d2v")