Is there an alternative to avisynth?
 

I have had several failed attempts with avisynth, can't get rid of the solarization. I was wondering if there is an alternative method of resizing the d2v before i encode with tmpeg.
???

Thanks for all the help!
Mike

Re: Is there an alternative to avisynth?
 

Could it be that your source is RGB?
And you just need to insert a line like this:

ConvertToYUY2()

in your AviSynth script.

kwag

When using smartripper, can I select RGB or YUV? I see on dvd2avi there is a choice, and it's always been RGB.

Still no luck, I tried the ConvertToYUY2() command and it changed nothing, is there another way to resize before encoding? Thanks kwag!
Mike

That's it right there. You have to select YUY in DVD2AVI. Not RGB.
TMPEG can't process RGB.

kwag

Hmmm...That still didn't seem to do it. this is the script

LoadPlugin("D:\VCD\Tools\fitcd\MPEG2DEC.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\VOB files\jimi.d2v")
BilinearResize(352,480,0,0,720,480)
TemporalSmoother(2,2)
AddBorders(0,0,0,0)

There's also something on dvd2avi that says yuv>rgb and the options in there are tv scale and pc scale. I tried em both with the same results. Any other ideas?
Mike

The same thing happens to me, and I don't know why either, but if you do the extra step of frameserving it to Tmpgenc thru Virtualdub, then it should be ok. YMMV.

I followed the guide on how to frameserve with vdub, but i keep getting an error when i try to open the vdr.avi file with tmpgenc. any ideas?
Mike

hi Mike,

What error message are you getting? I was getting an error that there was a missing .dll but that problem was figured out

thx
ren

The error says cannot open or unsupported. I tried loading it as a .vdr and .avi and got the same error.

AVVISynth
 

:D
I am new to the forum. I joined when I read this post and thought I might help. Used Tmpg a few times. Know very little about scripts for avisynth but I have used the templates with DVDX and TMPG and a DVD source movie.
I find the scripts interesting and will certainly read and learn more.

On to the topic at hand:

When I tried a downloaded file directly into TMPG254, I got the same error you got in TMPG "cannot open or unsupported" I downloaded (Time Machine (smr) .avi (2 files)) and tried to convert them to mpeg1 using TMPG254 directly (no frameserving). I got the same error. I used avidub149 and converted the audio to 44000 / 16 Stereo but I left the video as Direct Stream copy. The resulting file was much larger with
uncompressed Audio but at least it was read by TMPG. I dont recall if the original file was 8bit audio or what the original audio compressor was but converting the audio worked for me. With my P4 1600 and 512 DDR333 it took about 30 minutes to convert the file but I was running other stuff at the time.

I dont know if your problem is/was the same but the msg from tmpg is a little vague it could indicate an audio or video incompatibility.

See if you have the file msvcr70.dll under WINDOWS/system32
It must be there. If not, it won't work.

kwag

Ahhh...You nailed it Kwag! Everything's working great now that I put that dll in there. A million thanks! keep up the great work!
Mike

Thanks Freetza:

Actually I got the hint from another user that posted the answer here in the forum. Today I installed XP on a machine, and I had the same error! Couldn't figure it out, because my other machine works perfect!. So I found the post related to that dll, and that was it.

kwag

Hi KWAG !
If you rememberl I already asked you the same question but then I couldn't succeed to solve the "SOLARIZATION" problem .
I'll try this DLL too and hope that finally I'll be able to use FitCD.
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I think that it would be great if u give us complite list of DLL's or other needed prog's to work with similar or identical systems to avoid different problems.

Don't you?
This can save many questions !!!
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Template updates : laterly they are so many with different tweaks that
will be helpful for everyone of us if u add DATE to the name . Something like This:

KDVD-(NTSC)11-06-02

Keep doing graet job for all of us and many THX

bman