thanks hodgey, let me go find that version here and try again
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ok, I used 2.5 and the output quality is not the same for me as the newest version. I am sure it is because the settings are all different than the version in the digitalfaq guide on this site and I don't what I am doing, some of the choices are worded different, it looks like the newer versions are made a little user friendly on the terminology. Anyway, the size of the video that plays on VLC is still different. Would AVI vs MPEG-2 cause this to play differently on VLC? I am concerned on keeping the files on my hard drive for TV viewing quality. here are the output videos I have:
original file:
Code:
General
Complete name : H:\King Tee Rap City - Full Lossless.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1.10 GiB
Duration : 2 min 21 s
Overall bit rate : 67.0 Mb/s
Writing library : VirtualDub build 32842/release
Video
ID : 0
Format : HuffYUV
Format version : Version 2
Codec ID : HFYU
Duration : 2 min 21 s
Bit rate : 65.5 Mb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 3:2
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:2
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 6.320
Stream size : 1.08 GiB (98%)
Audio
ID : 1
Format : PCM
Format settings : Little / Signed
Codec ID : 1
Duration : 2 min 21 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 1 536 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 25.9 MiB (2%)
Alignment : Aligned on interleaves
Interleave, duration : 33 ms (1.00 video frame)
Interleave, preload duration : 500 ms
newest mpeg:
Code:
General
Complete name : C:\Users\BT\Desktop\test 2222.mpg
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 169 MiB
Duration : 2 min 21 s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 10.1 Mb/s
Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings : BVOP
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=18
Duration : 2 min 21 s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 9 476 kb/s
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 (30000/1001) FPS
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.915
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
GOP, Open/Closed : Open
GOP, Open/Closed of first frame : Closed
Stream size : 160 MiB (94%)
Audio
ID : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Commercial name : Dolby Digital
Muxing mode : DVD-Video
Duration : 2 min 21 s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 384 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Channel layout : L R
Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Frame rate : 31.250 FPS (1536 SPF)
Bit depth : 16 bits
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 6.46 MiB (4%)
Service kind : Complete Main
Menu
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I sincerely think I have some settings incorrect. The quality is noticeably less and i have 2 pictures here to show what I mean about the pictures appearing a physical different size in VLC. I put physical measurements from the edge my monitor to the edge of the video, as you can see in the attachments. When I used
Avidemux to take a 640x480 AVI to MPEG-2, the size came out the same on the resulting MPEG file. So it seems to happen when starting with a 720x480 AVI. Any ideas would be appreciated.
(samples attached)
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found this in an old post from Sanlyn:
"You'll notice that the "aspect ratio" entry states an AR of 3:2. Indeed., the physical frame size 720x480 is a 3:2 aspect ratio. This is because lossless AVI has no "display" aspect ratio flags the way lossy encoded video does, such as DVD or BluRay, etc. A PAL lossles
huffyuv AVI at 720x576 would show an aspect ratio of 5:4 (or 1.25:1), even if the original tape played on TV at 4:3"
