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celtic_druid
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Post Posted: Jan 29, 2006 02:48 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
If you are just encoding video, then regular VDub is fine. Can't see any reason why you couldn't use VirtualDubMod instead though, they are basically the same in terms of usage.

You should definatly have the filter on for both passes. Same goes for all filters.

shukero
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Post Posted: Feb 06, 2006 16:54 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hello I'm having trouble putting in about 5 .ass files into one of my .avi you see, When I put them in with the new sv filter 2.37 or w/e and I add them to my .avi (divx 6.1) and encode it in xvid 1.1 like right after about 3 seconds of the video it lags for a second then the sound is off and the video is as choppy as hell. I was wondering what the problem is. I was wondering if someone could tell me what the correct fps's are for .ass file and how to tweak my xvid settings to fix this. This is funny cause when I play it on my virtualdubmod in "file > preview output form start" it does lag or anything, but when I encode it it lags. Please help me!

HomelessBird
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Post Posted: Feb 11, 2006 23:52 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Thanks for the guide ! It does really help ! I just have couple questions. Is there anyone know why the new avi file comes out seem smaller than the source ? I put in a 700MB video it comes out around 400MB . Is there any way to keep the same quality, I dont mind the larger files ...

kschang
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Post Posted: Feb 12, 2006 10:32 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
HB, you have to use GSpot on the original video file, figure out its bitrate and settings, then set the same in the encoder settings before you starting re-encoding with the subtitles.

celtic_druid
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Post Posted: Feb 12, 2006 22:32 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Using the same bitrate, will give you the same size, but not quality. For the same quality, the size would have to go up since a) you are recompressing and b) subtitles are hard to compress and you are adding them.

trash
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Post Posted: Feb 13, 2006 01:51 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I followed the instruction but when I open my video file in VirtualDubMod, I have an error message
Can't locate decompressor for format XVID( unknown). VirtualDub requires a Video for Window(VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codec such as those used in Windows Media Player are not suitable. Only 'Direct Stream copy' is available for this video.

Please let me know what. I am new at this so dont understand much so please keep it as simple as possible. Thanks for your patience and all the help

kschang
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Post Posted: Feb 13, 2006 02:34 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
What OS are you on? I had the same problem when I was on Win98. I ended up compressing to Microsoft MPEG4 V3 (which can also be played by XVID)

celtic_druid
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Post Posted: Feb 13, 2006 04:32 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
You can't recompress to anything if it is locked to direct streaming and XviD can't decode MS MPEG-4 V3 (aka DivX 3) since it isn't really MPEG-4.

You just need to have XviD installed. ffdshow with VfW decoding for XviD enabled would also work.

chinkymoomoo
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Post Posted: Feb 17, 2006 09:16 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Help!!!

I'm using VirtualDubMod to permanently add subtitles to my .avi file. But an error occurs when I try to save it as a new file. The error that pops up is:

Error decompressing video frame 0: An unknown error occurred (may be due to corrupt data). (error code -100)

Does anybody know a way that i can deal with this? Thanks so much for any help that i can get!!!

kschang
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Post Posted: Feb 18, 2006 10:05 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Error decompressing? Sounds like original file's corrupt, but that wouldn't make any sense...

HomelessBird
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Post Posted: Mar 08, 2006 22:58 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
celtic_druid wrote:
Using the same bitrate, will give you the same size, but not quality. For the same quality, the size would have to go up since a) you are recompressing and b) subtitles are hard to compress and you are adding them.

Then how can I keep the quality the same ? I dont mind the bigger size thoug h ! Thanks ! cool.gif

Mithzamon
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2006 09:00 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Hi smile.gif

Just want to drop by a thanks for this very nice guide!

I've got a lot of .ogm and .mkv files that I want to play on my DVD-player and my Zen Vision:M, and to do that I need DivX/Xvid files with subtitles (mostly anime, and my japanese is kinda... bad ^^).

I had no problems demuxing the audio and subtitles, but I couldn't seem to be able to code the subs into the .avi file afterwards, but thanks to this guide I'm now able to convert all my files without any problems at all! smile.gif Thanks a lot, really useful for me.

Baldrick
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2006 09:29 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
or use alltoavi, all-in-one mkv, ogm to avi with subs.

Mithzamon
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Post Posted: Mar 16, 2006 10:35 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Baldrick wrote:
or use alltoavi, all-in-one mkv, ogm to avi with subs.

ohmy.gif

Woah, that's awsome. I really should've checked around a bit more on the site ^_^ Giving it a go now.

Edit: AlltoAvi works pretty nicely, the only thing I'm wondering about is if it's some way possible for me to change the font size of the subtitles?

danroberto
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Post Posted: Mar 20, 2006 06:29 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
THANK you for this! I'm using VirtualDubMod to permanently add subtitles and it works GREAT.

One thing: what if I have a .srt. that does not sync with the .avi? Can I do something about the .srt timing in VirtualDubMod (like to start a 1-2 seconds later...)?

TIA

kschang
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Post Posted: Mar 23, 2006 11:19 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Adjust the SRT with VisualSubSync or Subtitle Workshop

JoeyR
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Post Posted: Mar 29, 2006 19:14 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
trash wrote:
I followed the instruction but when I open my video file in VirtualDubMod, I have an error message
Can't locate decompressor for format XVID( unknown). VirtualDub requires a Video for Window(VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codec such as those used in Windows Media Player are not suitable. Only 'Direct Stream copy' is available for this video.

i had this same problem, only i it is WM3 instead of XVID. I have ffdshow, but that didnt help, do i need to tweak the settings at all?

celtic_druid
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Post Posted: Mar 29, 2006 22:07 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
ffdshow can decode WMV 9, check that it is enabled. The other option is MS's WMV9 VCM codec.

JoeyR
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Post Posted: Mar 30, 2006 21:00 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
thanks a bunch celtic_druid

lovelylil819
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Post Posted: Apr 15, 2006 16:33 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I have the same question as 'HomelessBird'. Fansub groups for asian drama and anime have files that are 700 MB and when they encode them, the files still maintain at 700 MB. The quality seems to be the same, also. Did they use separate streams or something to keep the quality and size the same? If so, is there a guide for that? Thanks in advance! biggrin.gif

abazabam
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Post Posted: Apr 16, 2006 19:06 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
I had the same problem. When I tried to convert a DivX video to Xvid it said "Error decompressing video frame 0" and I just clicked the "Video" menu, clicked on "Error mode...", and selected "Decode even if the result may be garbled". After I did this, I no longer got the error message. I didn't let it convert the whole thing because as soon as I saw that the error message didn't pop up, I just stopped it. So I don't know if it will work out 100%.

parfety
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Post Posted: May 19, 2006 11:02 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
JoeyR wrote:
trash wrote:
I followed the instruction but when I open my video file in VirtualDubMod, I have an error message
Can't locate decompressor for format XVID( unknown). VirtualDub requires a Video for Window(VFW) compatible codec to decompress video. DirectShow codec such as those used in Windows Media Player are not suitable. Only 'Direct Stream copy' is available for this video.

i had this same problem, only i it is WM3 instead of XVID. I have ffdshow, but that didnt help, do i need to tweak the settings at all?


i have this problem too, i still cant get it working
i am really clueless with these thigs, can someone please tell me what to do, because when i laod my avi movie i get that error,

sorry kinda new at these thigns redface.gif

hope you can help me smile.gif

Abond
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Post Posted: May 19, 2006 11:12 Posts View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Download and install XviD codec

parfety
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Post Posted: May 19, 2006 15:41 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
lol that was all

man i feel stupid thanks annywayz biggrin.gif

maryah
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Post Posted: May 20, 2006 03:11 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
This method works very nicely to make DivX files of interviews recorded from TV and subtltled from a text translation. Thank you!

But is there a way to change the output resolution to 640 x 480 instead of the default 720 x 480? It seems to be locked at that size.

640 x 480 creates a more accurate looking aspect ratio when played on the computer.

Baldrick
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Post Posted: May 20, 2006 03:22 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
add a resize filter under video->filters and resize to 640x480 and use lanczos resize.

maryah
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Post Posted: May 20, 2006 03:36 Posts Comp View users profile Send private message Reply with quote
Baldrick wrote:
add a resize filter under video->filters and resize to 640x480 and use lanczos resize.
Wow! fastest response ever!

That ought to do it perfectly, thank you!

(Does the order of the 2 filters make a difference in performance or quality?)

Abond
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Post Posted: May 20, 2006 03:47 Posts