No Video after Encoding!
 

Hello to everyone! First of all let me say I have not posted on the site in a very long time so please excuse if this is dumb question. I used to encode with Tmpgec but since I got dvd burner and dvd shrink I quit encoding. Well, now I would like to put two or three of my daughters movies on one dvd and I dug out Tmpgenc and dvd2avi and moviestacker and gave it a go. Well I made it through dvd2avi then moviestacker and after encoding with tmpgenc, version 2.521 plus, I got no video just audio. The file size came to 675MB! I used KDVD full resolution. I dont have exact script with me cause I am at work but it is the MA script that I created in moviestacker, I know it is old but I still got it.

Anyone have any idea why no video?

Can you see the video during the encoding ? And before it in the preview of tmpgenc ?

Can you open your file in GSpot to see what it tells to you ?
675 MB is just the audio track you think ? That is huge :).

Dialhot, thanks for the quick reply.

I did not see the video while it was encoding thru tmpgenc, but I think I had preview turned off (maybe), I will have to check that when I get home. I ripped the dvd, which by the way was Hulk, with dvd decrypter file mode, then I opened the first vob in dvd2avi 1.76 and watched thru that to see if film 95% or whatever (as per the guide I found) and then did the settings and save project. I then called up the d2v file in moviestacker and selected dvd output, MA script, saved script. Then I loaded the script in tmpgenc along with the audio from dvd2avi, loaded the kdvd full template and hit start. Woke up this morning and went to play finished file and no video, just audio and a file size of about 675 mb. Not sure what the file size should be around because this is my first with the full dvd template. I will try and open the file in gspot when i get home in a few hours.

Once again, thanks for the quick reply.

Just to refresh your memory just in case you have forgotten you need XviD and readavs.dll.
Otherwise it won't work.
Without XviD your PC can't decode YV12 colorspace (DVD) and without readavs.dll TMPGEnc can't open the avisynth script.
Just try to open your script in VirtualDubMod and see if the video is there.
Then get back here and we'll take in from there ;).

EDIT

KVCD target for a CD is 800MB.
KDVD target for DVD-/+R is ~4484MB.
Apparently noone really knows the official full lenght of DVD :?

Cheers

rds, thanks for the reply but i have one question regarding readavs, wouldn't I get an error from tmpgenc that it can't open the avs script? Xvid, I don't believe I had that installed before either. I just got home and going to grab a bite to eat and then I will try gspot and readavs and xvid. Oh yeah, gotta grab vdub mod too. Will post back in a about an hour or two :(

Go ahead, have dinner and come back with a GSpot information on what codec is actually decoding that DVD (YV12).
I have the bad feeling that it is either FFDShow or something else even more weird.
BTW there is actually no way TMPGEnc can read an avisynth script without readavs.dll being installed.
Well maybe it can in case you use AviSource or DirectShowSource instead of MPEG2Source but that's only for AVI/MPEG4 sources and even in that case I'm not 100% confident.
Unless...unless you are not feeding the script into TMPGEnc and instead you're opening the D2V file that you created with DVD2AVI - which BTW has been superseded by DGIndex.
But 1st let's see that GSpot report on the avs file ;).

OK, i installed the readavs and i get black screen with red writing at the top that say avstreamsynth:system exception - access violation.

On my way to install gspot.


By the way, here is my script

#================================================= ===#
# --== AviSynth script by MovieStacker v2.1.0 ==-- #
#================================================= ===#
# #
# ~ Movie Title...: The Hulk #
# ~ Movie Length..: 202548 frames (02:20:48) #
# ~ Size & Rate...: 720x480 @ 23.976 fps #
# ~ Dest Aspect...: DVD (720x480) #
# ~ Avg BitRate...: 554kbps (1x80min CD) #
# ~ Audio.........: 224kbps (228.64MB per CD) #
# #
#================================================= ===#

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\MPEG2Dec3dg.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\Undot.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\aSharp.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\STMedianFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\GripFit_YV12.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\MovieStacker\Filters\UnFilter.dll")

Mpeg2Source("C:\DVD 2 Avi Projects\Hulk.d2v")
Undot()
aSharp(1, 4)
GripCrop(720, 480, overscan=3, source_anamorphic=false)
GripSize(resizer="BicubicResize")
STMedianFilter(3, 3, 1, 1)
MergeChroma(blur(1.5))
MergeLuma(blur(0.1))

## Linear Motion Adaptive Filtering ##
ScriptClip("nf = YDifferenceToNext()" + chr(13) + "nf >= 2 ? \
UnFilter( -(fmin(round(nf)*2, 100)), -(fmin(round(nf)*2, 100)) ) : \
TemporalSoften( fmin(round(2/nf),6), round(1/nf), round(3/nf), 1, 1) ")

GripBorders()

## Functions ##
function fmin(int a, int b) {return (a < b) ? a : b}

Oh boy!
But before installing readavs.dll were you already having that avisynth error message?
Ok, let's do a fresh restart here.
You need to get installed:
-Avisynth 2.5.6a, not more and not less than that
-Readavs.dll, you need to read the instructions because the path that you copy the dll to will have to be registered in the registry using the *.reg file that accompanies readavs. And please use double backslashes.
Uninstall any FFDShow if you have and (re)install Nic's XviD 1.1.2.
Now everything has to work.
At least it should :?

Try this and tell me if you can watch it on Media Player Classic or VLC or even Windows Media Player.
Best would be to use VDubMod...

Please note that you shouldn't be still using Moviestacker because it is really outdated.
To help you create a working script with crop/resize/addborders such as SansGrip's GripFit please use PARanoia.
Also you should never ever create folders with special characters (such as çãà) and or spaces such as C:\DVD 2 Avi Projects.
Avisynth doesn't like those too much or then it's the filters I don't really know.
Also get rid of DVD2AVI and download DGIndex.
And if you do so please be advised that you will need to recreate your D2V project and that your script will have to look like this:

And you will have to copy dgdecode.dll that comes with DGIndex to avisynth plugin's folder.
BTW what guide did you read? :roll:
I'm terribly sorry that we haven't updated the guides in a long while...

get the red writing after installing readavs. gspot say mpeg2 codec and installed.

You mean only after installing readavs?
Please read my post above and do as written.
Use the small script that I posted (the 1st one) and tell me if you still see the read message and tell me what the message says.
And make sure you have Avisynth 2.5.6a installed.

going between two different computers, the one i am encoding on is not hooked to the net. I dont know what i did but now i am getting movement on the encoding, but it is a bunch of messed up colors.

Avisynth 2.5.7 and i am going to try your script now.

Script wont work, unspecified error

Encoding as we speak, i mean as i type. I uninstalled avisynth 2.5.7 and installed 2.5.6 and it is working. Thank you for all your help. I will report back and let you know the results.

Let's go over this one more time.
You have Avisynth 2.5.6a (or newer) installed.
You kick Moviestaker out of your PC.
You download both Nic's XviD and DGIndex and PARanoia.
You install XviD.
You install DGIndex 1.4.8 and you recreate your D2V project and this time to a small path without spaces or special chars in it.
You copy the dgdecode.dll that comes with dgindex to "C:\Program Files\Avisynth\Plugins" or whatever folder you have Avisynth installed.
Just make sure you copy the dll to the plugins folder inside the folder where Avisynth is installed.
Create a small script just to test you setup like this:
Now open that script with VDubMod or Media Player Classic.
It can't show you any red warning message.
The you just have to install readavs or check the registry entry to see where it is pointing and change it if needed.
You just can't fail.
I know it because I have just done a system reinstall a few days ago.
Cheers

Re: No Video after Encoding!
 

Shame on you!
Do you know what you're missing? :lol:
Shrink is nice if you don't have enough time and if the DVD is to keep the original menus, audio tracks and director comments.
But if you're looking for simple backup with 1xvideo+1xaudio+1xsubtitle with a nice handmade menu, then you need to get back at encoding 8).
Cheers

Thanks for all the help rds, I wrote down all the programs you just listed and I will get busy reading about them. Yeah I used to have fun doing the encoding and it is coming back to me little by little. Time, what is that? I dont have time to take a ----! I work two jobs, seven days a week. And if that is not enough, throw in a 4 yr old. But anyway, I am looking forward to doing the encoding as I would like to get a couple of her original dvd's onto one. I shall see how it goes. It will probably take me a couple of encodes to get a rough idea of the file size with the dvd template, never used it before, (used to use the kvcdx3 528x480 template) but like i said i am hoping to get at least 2 movies per dvd if not 3. I read someone got all three matrix on one dvd so I think i got a chance. Just going to take me a few days to get back in the rythem. Thanks again for the help. I'm sure i will be lurkin here more often now.

Now I see why I didn't miss the encoding thing, ran all night and finished file has wrong audio. But that is my fault, i did not double check it. But the file size with no tweaks to the half dvd res template, ntsc was 1.02 gb, so that makes me think 3 or 4 movies! Doing the hulk over again while I go to work and then spiderman tonight and probable batman tomorrow. Then try and author them and see final size. Can't wait to see if i can accomplish this, it will be awsome if i can.

You should check the visual quality of the final result. What is the CQ value you use during the encoding ? By default the templates use CQ=60 if I'm not wrong, and this is not really good. Better to raise it to 70 or 75 and target for 2 movies on a disc.

And better better is to discover CQMatic there :
http://www.kvcd.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=64

Dialhot, thanks for the reply. I am not sure what the default cq was, did not look, just loaded the template and changed the audio to 224. All i know is that i changed my script to match the 1/2 dvd template resolution, not the full and upped the audio to 224. But i suppose i could change the audio back to 192 and up the cq to 70. If I am not mistaken, i remember something about 20 mb's per 4 cq's or maybe it was 2 cq's. Should equal out if not just a little bigger. I was driving to work and thinking about the above post i wrote and i guess i should have asked it it was possible to do this. I figured i could load three different movies, or 4 if small enough, in tmpgenc dvd author and link each movie to the menu. This can be done right?

Will give a look c at cqmatic during lunch. I wish I had the programs infront of me cause i had a couple of questions. When I get home tonight I will write them down. Something about the anamorphic and iv- something on the right side of moviestacker and the section below it where you select the 1, 2, 3 and it gives you that error setting. What should you do there, try and get as close to 0.00 as possible and do you ues resize or overlay?

Sorry guys and gals, it has been at least 3 yrs since i done any encoding but i am trying to get back on the bus!!

Unfortunally there is not such linear relation with CQ. That is why CQMatic has been developped by Karl.

Yes it is. It's what an authoring tool is made for.

Thre is not a lot of people that are still using MovieStacker and I don't remember how it looks like. Better to use Paranoia (look for it on the forum) or FitCD. I personally use resize.

No problem. Nevertheless you should try to take the new bus, not the old (good) one :).

UNBELIEVEABLE! Now I see why I left the encoding scene. 8 1/2 encode and the audio is out of sync. Other than that, beautiful. cq was set to 70 and audio was 224 with the 352 480 half dvd template. File size was .99MB or 1 GB I will be installing the other programs mentioned, paranoia, dgindex and cq matic soon as daughter goes to bed :D . Any new quides available for these tools. I see talk about fitcd but now clue what to do, I mean script wise. Do I use my script from moviestacker (ma Script) and just copy and past fitcd results to it? Sorry, I did see the flash guide for paranoia, any written ones?

Can anyone explain how to sort the film 95% issue when using either dvd2avi or dgindex? When to use the forced film or not i mean.

Thanks again.

Exactly what I was trying to emphasize a couple of days ago ;).
(Re)Welcome aboard :D.
On this boat sometimes sh*t happens and most of the time it's our own fault :lol:.
Can you tell us which tool you're using to reencode the audio and the settings you're using?
Or are you encoding with tmpgenc's own audio engine?
Not bad at all.
That might do for 3 movies.
And if you squeeze that CQ a little more maybe it can hold with 4 movies all depending on the compressibility/complexity of your sources.
That's a very good move if you ask me.
That's why I was asking you to forgive us.
We haven't done a real guide in...years!?
Well maybe I'm wrong but it sure sounds like years to me :?.
I would like to help with more small tutors but I really have been lacking time.
Most of the forum regular members nowadays are newcomers lurking and it sure looks like a tough task for them to get up to speed with KDVD.
I promise I will do my best to get back to the tutors but somebody's gotta help too because I live in PAL land.
I don't know (since I don't have to worry about) interlaced sources.
Back on topic, forget FitCD and stick with PARanoia.
With the help of PARanoia you will build a small script that crops the top/bottom black bands, resize (to say 352x480), take care of the overscan to help you gain some extra kbits with the left/right unused movie parts and finally paint those (needed!) top/bottom black bands.
In other words that would be the same as:
Any other filters you will need to help compression, remove noise, add sharpness you will have to add them by and by editing the generated scrip with notepad.
And maybe you should consider dropping MA script for DVD sources.
It just bluries a bit too much.
Try a:
It is not motion adaptive and it is slow as hell (6 or 7 fps on my AMD 2400+) but it will lightly denoise your source and it will bring back the sharpness that it looses with the resizing and denoising process ;).
See what I mean? Interlaced sources...
That's why I can't help that much on my own.
I also need some help :lol:.

OK, i am trying to get on the new bus, installed paranoi, fitcd and dgindex and am as lost as can be. Lot easier with moviestacker :D Sorry, just had to say that cause that is what I was used to.

I am encoding with Tmpgenc 2.521 . . ... Plus. I was using the built in audio so i was loading script from moviestacker and audio file from dvd2avi, I might have had wrong setting in dvd2avi for audio. I was thinking of installing toolame? And no need to apologize for not having a guide, we all have to work!! Some just work more than others, like me.

So after I get the small two or three line script from paranoia what is the rest of the script like and how to complile it (i mean i know how to edit the script but were you get the values from)? I mean you said to drop the MA Script so what do I do? Where or how to get values for LRemovedust and LimitedSharp filters and whatever other filters you all use. Can you paste a full one that you use so I can see an example of what the experienced users use? Let me appologize now if they are built into paranoia cause i didnt look at alot of the tabs and options because it scared me :oops: Fitcd was a little awkward too but similiar to moviestacker.

Oh yeah, and how do i know what order to put these in the script?

Thanks for all the help rds, and for being patient, all of you!

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 :lol:.
Now you have to copy dgdecode.dll (from the folder where you originally extracted DGMPGDec 1.4.8) 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 ;).
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:
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:
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 :).
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 :D

rds, thanks for the informational post. I am printing it as I am writing to you. I just dont know what the problem is, last night before I went to bed I tried another encoding job. This time video is all jerky and the audio is all messed up. Just for s/g, i downloaded avi2dvd 1.77 since that is what i had a guide for and followed all the settings; film 95% or higher use forced film, audio track 1 decode to wave. Since I was lost with paranoia i did a script in moviestacker, loaded into tmpgenc (script and audio that was created from dvd2avi1.77), loaded dvd template and in the morning video all jerky and audio all messed up and the file size went up to 2.6 gb. I said WTF! I have been lurking on the site for the last 3 days reading everything I could and I dont seem to be getting anywhere.

Will follow what you posted in a few hours when the little one goes to bed and will post results tomorrow night.

THANK YOU.

Ok, I'll catch you up in the morning.
Cheers

The Headac3he 0.25a3 is password protected, anyone know the password

It's written in the post from the other forum.
By heart I'd say it's "nodelay".

EDIT:
Hey, I just noticed that HeadAC3he 0.25a3 leaves "Booster" on by default.
Don't let it, disable it before encoding.
That makes it 2 checkboxes that are very near one from another and that you need to uncheck, "Resample to" and "Booster".

OK, video is done. With the script from paranoia and default template of the half dvd 352 480 video file is 637 mb. Plays good, and looks awsome im wmp and plays fast in windvd, but looks awsome. Will get the audio when i get home from work, my second job.

637MB, huh?
That sounds too small and final CQ must be very low with that size.
Always try to keep it above 70 with TMPGEnc or below 6.5 in HCEnc.
But you know me, I like to keep it on the quality side of it.
Well at least this time we should not experience any audio desync issues.
On the other hand I don't know sh1t about interlaced sources and we could well end up experiencing desync issues.
And if that should be the case I would leave you in better hands, that is , Dialhot, Boulder, Kawg, Incredible, etc.
But at least you're starting to catch the new train ;).

rds, sorry, it came to 647 mb's (audio ended up being 221 mb) and I am a little worried that it dont play right in windvd but okay in wmp. I did not touch any of the settings in the template and it was set to a cq of 70. Now I have other problems and I might have to reinstall windows. After installing all those apps now my dvddecrypter and smartripper (which i know nobody uses but i was there next to decrypter so i tried to open it) wont load, as soon as i double click on the icon the computer restarts. Also now I see files in almost all folders on the c drive are highlighed in blue. I did a search and these are compressed files I guess, if I am understanding the help and support in Microsoft. For instance thmpenc was blue, dvd2avi was blue and others. I wont have time to mess with it tonight so I will try and play around tomorrow after work.

Thanks again for all the help.

Ugly :(.
Sounds like a virus to me.
I'd format and reinstall.
BTW, could you post your latest script?
Cheers

rds, all i did was a trial run of the script i got from paranoia, which is similiar to your first one without undot and deen. I just wanted to see how it went. I followed what you wrote to the T and came up with that three line script, loaded it in vdub mod and it played but seemed a little slow. Loaded the avs into tmpgenc and loaded the template with the correct res i wanted, 352 x 480 half dvd. I did try however to load it into tmpgenc dvd author 1.6 and it gave me fatal error saying it could not continue cause it was wrong res or something (352 x 480 not valid dvd res, it said it had to be 704/720 x 480 and it did not give option to continue anyway. By then I was so aggrivated that I just X'd out and did not write down exactly what it said. So I could not even load the audio and burn to rw and try it out.

Getting back to the files written in blue, I searched the help support in MS and it says that the files that are in blue like that are compressed files. I dont know how that could have happened! I dont know how the heck to select to compress files, let alone only certain ones :oops:

Virus, i dont think so! The computer I do all my video stuff on is not even hooked up to the net. The computer that I download everything on scans all my downloads and I even scan after I sort to a folder to put on my flash drive before i take to other computer. I do appreciate all your help but it is going to take me a couple days to reinstall win and everything else and re rip dvd's I wanted to try and put on one dvd. If i may, if ok with the mods, i will just post back to this thread even though i have fixed the no video problem so I dont have to start a new thread.

I will keep pluggin away and I hope I get success. Will post back in a couple days. Thanks again.

Of course.
Don't be silly :D.
We're not going to close a thread just because the original poster doesn't check in for a couple of days :lol:.
Not even if he doesn't check in for a couple of weeks or even a couple of months.
Just deal with your computer problem and get back when you feel like it.
Maybe we can sort it out, why you get audio desyncs and stuff like that.
Cheers

rds, i have not forgot to come back for advice :lol: I have since sold my computer that was giving me problems (after a format and reinstall) and I am now in the process of loading the programs onto my new computer. Turns out when I pulled it apart to take out my slaved 250 harddrive the ribbon was broke and the pins were coming out ( where it is crimped together ) to the part you push into harddrive. I hope I caught it in time and did not ruin my spare 250 drive.

I wont probably get a chance to try out a movie untill this Sat night cause I will have a long weekend, off on sat, sun, mon and tues. Finally some day's off 8O 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.

Duly noted ;-).
Merry Xmas tutankhamun :)

S U C C E S S ! :lol: Thanks to all who helped, especially rds.

3 movies on one dvd! Here are the three movies that I tried, Nowhere to Run, The Professional and The Sentinal. All three encoded with the ntsc template for 720x480, kdvd template full. Just a plain script from Paranoia, by the way what is that deblocking=(c 4) or whatever the exact phrasing is :oops: ? CQ I upped to 76 on Nowhere to Run and I did 78 on the professional and 80 on the sentinal, to give me some idea on filesize. The audio was done at 224 for all.

Loaded them up in tmpgenc dvd author and I was over by about 65 or 70 mb's if i recall (did not want to re encode) so i just redid the audio on them to 160 and ended up having 20 mbs to spare. I have not played the dvd in my standalone but it worked on the computer in Powerdvd.


Thanks again for the help! Can't wait to do more :D

Well, all three play great and sound great only problem is that the picture is in the center of tv screen, black bars all the way around. I do believe i selected overlay instead of resize so I dont know what happened. All three are the same. What should video arrange method be set at on the advanced tab of tmpgenc? I believe it is at full screen keep aspect ratio. Will dig into it more when daughter goes to bed later.

Probably :D Full Screen. And let your script do the cropping/resizing.

-kwag

Ok, I am setting up another movie to do and I would like to run it past all you folks first to make sure I got a grip on some of this stuff.

File information, Thomas Crown Affair, 4.3 AR 720x480 with forced film done in dgindex, loaded up d2v file into Paranoia, paused then selected 720x480 for resizing, checked Anamorphic to Non Anamorphic (since I got a 4.3 crt tv, read in a post to do non anamorp if you have a 4.3 tv), ITU option was checked by default, overscan factor to 3 (which gave me a PAR error of Zero) and checked resize not overlay and this is the script I got

dgdecode_mpeg2source("C:\DVD\thomas crown affair\tc.d2v",cpu=4)
BicubicResize(672,336,0,0.6,5,68,708,354)
Addborders(24,72,24,72)

I then loaded this script into tmpgenc and loaded the kdvd full d1 720x480 template and changed two things, first I changed under the advanced tab to full screen (was full screen keep aspect ratio) and I also changed under the video tab 4.3 (was set to 16.9) Thought I read if it was a 4.3 movie to select 4.3 and if 16.9 select 16.9!?

Could someone please inform me if I am following correctly or did I mess up anything. I am trying to follow the new bus :o

I was a little confused by an explanation about using the overlayed overscan saying you wont have to zoom to get rid of black bars on side (it was in a post I read titled Explain Overscan which i printed out and followed). But that is what I used and I got the black bars on the sides.

So if anyone could pass me some advice (on some of the settings I mentioned) I would greatly appreciate it! :D Before I hit the start button :(

Thanks RDS, Kwag and Dialhot for your replies!