Hey all, im totally new to KVCD, I just found out about it like a week ago, when i stumbled on a kvcd movie. For the last week I've made several attempts at making a KVCD with no luck, I've followed all the faq's and there must be something im not understanding, I'm going to list all the steps I took, if any one can point out any errors in my process please do...
These are the steps I took to attempt to make a KVCD of Devil's Advocate from a dvd:
First I ripped the dvd with DVD Decrypter (version 3.1.6.0), which left me with VTS_01_1.VOB - VTS_01_6.VOB and VTS_01_0.IFO
DVD2AVI (version 1.76):
Opened VTS_01_1.VOB which in turn opened all 6 vobs. I previewed the movie for 1 min it showed these settings:
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frame Rate: 29.970 fps
Video Type FILM 99%
Frame Type: Progressive
I made sure track 1 was selected and I clicked on demux, then I saved the prodject as devils.d2v, this left me with:
devils.d2v - 588K
devils AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 917ms.ac3 - 395MB
Headac3he(version 0.23a):
Made source the ac3 file, chose destination format: mp2, made destination file "devils.mp2", clicked options, made downmix type: surround 2, clicked options, made bitrate: 128, made Channel Mode: Dual Channel, clicked start, this left me with:
devils.mp2 - 131MB
Ran Moviestacker (version 2.00 BETA 3)
Source, devils.d2v, in MPEG Resizing I made destination be 3/4 DVD SMALL, to set the resolution at 528 x 480 (not sure if this should be SVCD instead) noted the length (115m15s) and average kbps (791), these were for fitting on 1 80min cd, I pasted kwags settings in the script, for avisynth 2.5.2 for clean dvd, and editted it for my current setup:
Code:
## DLL Section ##
#
LoadPlugin("C:\dvds\moviestacker\filters\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\dvds\moviestacker\filters\GripFit_YV12.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\dvds\moviestacker\filters\STMedianFilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\dvds\moviestacker\filters\asharp.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\dvds\moviestacker\filters\unfilter.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\dvds\moviestacker\filters\undot.dll")
#
####
## Defined Variables and Constants ##
#
MaxTreshold = 1.50
nf = 0 # Current frame.
#
####
## Main section and static filters ###
#
Mpeg2Source("C:\dvds\aaa_inprogress\devils.d2v")
#
undot()
Limiter()
asharp(1, 4)
GripCrop(528, 480)
GripSize(resizer="BicubicResize")
STMedianFilter(8, 32, 0, 0 )
MergeChroma(blur(MaxTreshold))
MergeLuma(blur(0.1))
#
#
## Linear Motion Adaptive Filtering ##
#
# ( Portions from AviSynth's manual ) - This will apply temporalsoften to
# very static scenes, and apply variable blur on moving scenes.
# We also assign a variable - and this is why a line break is inserted:
SwitchThreshold = (Width<=352) ? 4 : (Width<=480) ? 3 : 2
ScriptClip("nf = YDifferenceToNext()"+chr(13)+ "nf >= SwitchThreshold ? \
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()
#LetterBox( Your_Values_Here ) # Depends on situation. Use MovieStacker!
Limiter()
#
#
## Functions ###
function fmin( int f1, int f2) {
return ( f1<f2 ) ? f1 : f2
}
#
####
I saved my script as devils.avs this left me with:
devils.avs - 1.69KB
Ran TMPGenc (version 2.520.54.163):
clicked load, and loaded KVCDx3-MPEG-1-NTSCFilm.mcf (since this bitrate was < 1000, I read somewhere on this board it is better to use mpg1 with lower avg bitrates), clicked on settings, then setting for rate control chose maximum: 2000, and minimum: 450 (0.57 * 791), then click ok, then clicked on GOP Structure and checked "Output bitstream for edit (CLOSED GOP)", I dont know why I did this, I just know in one of the guides they did it =) I then saved my prodject as a TMPGenc Text prodject and was left with:
devils.tpr - 12.4k
It was getting late, so before I encoded and went to bed, I tested 1 run on CQMatic (version: rc1), the last setting it showed was 57.77 in the perdiction only mode, so then I exited to be save, and restarted cqmatic, loaded the devils.tpr, made sure full encode was selected, and clicked execute...
when I woke up this morning I found this...
devils.m1v - 935MB
just for fun, I used SLIM-G 0.0.7, choose kvcd as a format, for video: devils.m1v, for audio: devils.mp2, for output: devils.mpg, clicked MUX, and I ended up with
devils.mpg - 1.05GB
well obviously I doing something wrong, not sure if its my thoughts on how the process works, or some settings, or the fault of one of the apps im using, but any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, oxide
Then re-do
, but won't be released until version 2 of CQMatic. The priority on 1.0 through version 2, will be precision adjustments only.
