DVD2AVI: AVI Output

[ezysk]

Perhaps somebody can explain somethin to me about DVD2AVI output file format. One would assume that DVD2AVI would save the "AVI".....as a normal regular .AVI file that any external program would find and read.
So why does DVD2AVI saves it to: ".d2v" instead ?????

[jorel]

hi ezysk

for .dv2 choose:
file, save project (F4)....any name!

for avi choose:
file, save avi....any name....choose the codec or
choose without codec but it will be too big(without codec)
huffyuv is good,great compression and quality!

.dv2 needs the vobs in the source to encode after saved project.
.avi don't need the vobs to encode after you save it.

[kwag]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ezysk

So why does DVD2AVI saves it to: ".d2v" instead ?????

As jorel already explained the basic feature, let me add something
Instead of saving an AVI with DVD2AVI, when you save as a "project", it takes a very short time to create a .d2v compared to saving to a real AVI. The benefit is that the .d2v is a very small file that has "pointers" to the actual VOBs, and is treated like a real AVI file. This way you can process the file back and forth (seek anywhere), without the need of creating a huge AVI file

-kwag

[ezysk]

.....you say it takes a very short time to create a d2v file..with DVDtoAVI I suppose. How long does it take to create a d2v file for an average 2 hour movie? Do you have to "preview" the entire movie in DVDtoAVI...before saving it as a project? I would imagine it would take forever.

[kwag]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ezysk

.....you say it takes a very short time to create a d2v file..with DVDtoAVI I suppose. How long does it take to create a d2v file for an average 2 hour movie?

About 5 minutes

Quote:

Do you have to "preview" the entire movie in DVDtoAVI...before saving it as a project?

No.

Quote:

I would imagine it would take forever.

No

-kwag

[ezysk]

....did you use a supercomputer for that???
....it took me 5 minutes to create a d2v file.....for just one 10 minute chapter...and I'm using a P4

[kwag]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ezysk

....did you use a supercomputer for that???

P4 @1.6Ghz

Quote:

....it took me 5 minutes to create a d2v file.....for just one 10 minute chapter...and I'm using a P4

You probably have the audio set as "Decode" and resampling it, instead of "Demux"
Make sure you demux the audio, so that you extract the AC3 audio. Not decode it. If you use "decode", it will take a very long time to process

-kwag

[ezysk]

..ok, Is an AVS script similar to a d2v file, that is will it preview and encode the same amount of time in TEMPGEnc as a regular d2v file ?

[Kane]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ezysk

..ok, Is an AVS script similar to a d2v file, that is will it preview and encode the same amount of time in TEMPGEnc as a regular d2v file ?

the d2v file represents the movie, it is like a link to the movie, in your avs script you set the d2v file as your source. the avs script contains all the changes (filters, resizing) you wanna make

[ezysk]

....so in short, can I ENCODE an AVS video file script in TMPGEnc.....just like I do with a d2v file ???

[Kane]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ezysk

....so in short, can I ENCODE an AVS video file script in TMPGEnc.....just like I do with a d2v file ???

you got it
avs is the source

[ezysk]

....great, so can anybody please tell my WHY I can only encode the first few seconds of the AVS video file script in TMPGEnc? I specified the d2v file in MovieStacker and saved it as an AVS script. I just use one chapter for testing,and its funny how MovieStacker reads it as a 7 minute chapter,while the original d2v file.....is 10 minutes. Anyways I'm posting the Avisynth Script from MovieStacker here:
_______________________________________________
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\MPEG2Dec.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\UnFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\LegalClip.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\Sampler.dll")

Mpeg2Source("C:\MOVIE\DVAV\DV2\10COM.d2v")
LegalClip()
BilinearResize(320, 158, 0, 3, 720, 474)
UnFilter(50, 50)
TemporalSmoother(1, 2)
MergeChroma(blur(1.5)
MergeLuma(blur(0.2))
AddBorders(16, 41, 16, 41)
LegalClip()

Sampler(length=24)
## MPEG size = ((Total frames/MovieTimeInMinutes)/24) * MPEG sample file size * .98 ##

[Kane]

it´s because of the sampler line in your script

change it to

#Sampler(length=24)

and try again

[ezysk]

...must be some kind of bug in the 2.0 MovieStacker beta version, to omit something like that. Anyways the AVS script now plays flawlessly.....thanks man!

[Kane]

Quote:

Originally Posted by ezysk

...must be some kind of bug in the 2.0 MovieStacker beta version, to omit something like that. Anyways the AVS script now plays flawlessly.....thanks man!

this is no bug

if the sampler line is in your script, tmpgenc will only take 1 of 24 frames, this sampler-line is no more needed, when using ToK.

before ToK, we had to do the prediction manually, so we needed this sampler line


# means deactivating the whole line
dropping it from the script would be the same

[ezysk]

Well, if I don't have the "#" character added in the AVS script, all I get is an evaluation division by zero in TEMPGEnc.....when running that kind of a script in Tok. The main thing is that I got TEMPGEnc running in Tok,so I don't mind. Next I got to figure out why Tok does load bbmeg...and then stops,no encoding or muxing is done,with the result,that no final mpg is processed.