Video
Let's see.
If you have installed DGIndex then you
must recreate your D2V projects.
Otherwise it won't work.
With a little help from my tutor (which you apparently have already spotted out) and with the similarities between DVD2AVI and DGIndex, I say that you don't have any problem using DGIndex by now.
Do you? Didn't think so
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Now you have to copy dgdecode.dll (from the folder where you originally extracted DGMPGDec 1.4.
to c:\program files\avisynth\plugins.
Now you open up PARanoia.
You press F1 and you choose your already DGIndex created project file and you press the Open button.
The video starts playing.
You use the Pause button to stop it on a high contrast frame *.
Since your source is DVD you should only have to choose the resize engine to use.
So go to the "Configure Avisynth Commands" menu, press use resizer and maybe choose BicubicResize precise.
You were using Half-D1 right?
So choose "NTSC 352x480" from the resizing options.
Since DVD standards don't support Anamorphic state in Half-D1, you have to choose "Anamorph to Nonanamorph".
If you were using Full-D1 you could either keep it unchecked to go Anamorphic or tick it anyway to go Nonanamorphic.
Nonanamorphic is also good and it saves 10-15% of bitrate but the picture will look smooth on big plasma/lcd screens.
Have you ever figured out your TV overscan?
If it's a CRT TV set then it has overscan.
There is nothing on the specs that will tell you the amount of overscan which means you will have to figure it out yourself.
Pick a DVD-RW and test it.
0 means no overscan, 1 means 8 blocks overscan and 2 means 16 blocks overscan, etc.
Set the "Overscan factor" to 2 and try it out.
If in the end you don't see right/left black bars on your TV screen then you can try 3 or 4.
If you test it on 3 and you can see the side black bars then you know that the right factor is 2.
Got the logic?
Now tick the Resized checkbox just below the overscan factor.
You are ready to test your setup.
Press the "Autocrop frame" button.
On the picture you will see 2 green lines.
This will work better with bright frames over the top/bottom black bars
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So if the frame you chose is not bright enough, use the bottom slider to browse through the movie until you find one bright enough and press the "Autocrop frame" button again.
Now it must have found the right crop figures.
Time to create the script.
Choose "Avisynth Script" on the menu and press "Show/Preview script".
Now press the "save script" button and save your script near the d2v project.
You can now close PARanoia.
Your script should look similar to:
Code:
dgdecode_mpeg2source("D:\MOVIES\CATWOMAN\D2V\cat.d2v")
BicubicResize(320,288,0,0.6,5,74,710,426)
Addborders(16,144,16,144)
Now you need to get the plugins for denoising sharpening.
That's not going to be easy.
Maybe you should start out with something simple.
Undot() and Deen().
Go to
http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/ get those two filters, unzip the dlls and copy them to c:\program files\avisynth\plugins.
Now change your script to:
Code:
dgdecode_mpeg2source("D:\MOVIES\CATWOMAN\D2V\cat.d2v")
BicubicResize(320,288,0,0.6,5,74,710,426)
#
Undot()
Deen()
#
Addborders(16,144,16,144)
Get the feeling?
Other scripts will take more time and you won't gain too much unless your TV has at least 22 inches.
Try the script in VDubMod and if it works load it in TMPGenc.
But don't encode the audio inside TMPGEnc as well.
Use BeHappy or HeadAC3he.
I'll show you how in a couple of minutes.
Audio
Go get HeadAC3he here
http://forum.gleitz.info/showpost.ph...&postcount=277.
But do download HeadAC3he 0.25a3 only!
Now head on to
http://mitglied.lycos.de/darkav/svcdguide/svcd.html.
Assuming your PC is at least a Pentium III with SSE you will need to download SSRC.dll and MP2enc.dll.
Extract HeadAC3he to a new folder.
Try out as it is.
Load your source AC3 file, insert the delay of your audio file as stated in the AC3 filename created by DGIndex, and look how your destination file is set automatically for you
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Set the "Destination Format" to MP2.
Keep it
2 Pass mode set to
Float.
Now uncheck the "Resample to" option because we want your audio to keep 48Khz as needed by DVD specs.
Now change to the right panel named Azid.
If you own a Dolby Prologic II decoder/receiver keep everything as is except for "Downmix type" and change it to "Surround 2".
But if you own a DPL I decoder/receiver then change that "Downmix type" to "Surround" only.
Now press the "Options" button.
You're on the MP2enc panel.
Choose accordingly CBR and 224 as you had told us that was your target.
Change "Channel Mode" to "Dual Channel".
You can now press the start button on the main panel.
Later on you will give TMPGEnc Author both the m2v encoded by TMPGEnc and the mp2 encoded by HeadAC3he.
That's all for now
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Fitcd was a little awkward too but similiar to moviestacker. 
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So I will get a movie ripped in and try again. Will post here with results. If I dont post back for a few days then I want to tell all Merry Xmas, or not to offend others and be politically correct, Happy Holidays.
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