Blue-Ray / HD-DVD / TS / DVD / AVI -> TO H.246 using MEGUI

FulciLives · Posted: Jun 03, 2008 00:03

I recently bought the USA NTSC DVD Video of Tim Burton's SWEENEY TODD. I guess for no good reason other than it is my newest purchase I decided to convert it to a Sony PS3 friendly MP4 format using this guide. I tried the guide once before but really didn't do much with it ... so this is really my first time going from start (DVD Video) to finish (MP4 file).

There is a profile in meGUI called, "PD-PS3-Xbox360", which is what I used. I made no changes to this profile other than setting the video bitrate to 1500kbps.

I used the 5.1 AC-3 audio and converted it using the same exact method in the guide. Then used the built-in MP4 mixer to mux it together into a MP4 file.

It looks amazing good. The resolution was left at 720x480 with no cropping yet it does play back at the correct aspect ratio on the computer and on my Sony PS3. Audio sounds good but I only have regular stereo here ... no surround sound of any sort.

However I noticed something I have some questions about. Now granted this is a very dark film "look wise" or due to the "cinematography" if you will but I swear the MP4 looks a tad darker than the DVD which already looked pretty dark to begin with ... so I wonder "what did I do wrong"?

Looking at the guide I see two things I might have done wrong. For starters I used DGIndex to creat a D2V project file (and demux the audio). So yes I used the D2V as the source and used the built-in AviSynth script creator thing. I'm wondering should I have added something to the end like, "ConvertToYUY2()" or "ConvertToYV12()" etc.?

I didn't do any of that in fact I didn't really "touch" the AviSynth script created nor change the video template (other than to change the video bitrate to 1500kbps). So did I need to add any of those color space conversions?

Also I did use the "colour correction" option. I know DJRumpy said he never uses it. Perhaps that was a mistake?

Then again it is a dark film so maybe I imagine that it is darker. I'll have to do a side by side with the DVD to compare.

As for my Sony PS3 it played the file back A-OK and other than looking dark it looks great and sound good but that is my other question.

The original audio was a 5.1 AC-3 448kbps audio file. I did the audio the same way as it is in the guide. Yet I have no idea if 128 is a good setting or not and I have no idea what HE means or LC or any of that.

Perhaps someone can explain all that a bit better or point me to a place on the web that does?

Thanks

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
I hope this makes sense ... I must have *yawn* fallen asleep twice trying to type this up ... off to bed for me!
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