h264 woes

[Cyntalan]

I have an AVI file encoded with the h264 codec. I am trying to get this to DVD. Its resolution is 512x224 (yes, odd res). I've tried so many ways to get a proper encoding it's not even funny. The methods I've used that look good in terms of quality screw up in some other way. Here are some ways it has happened, each one a different problem, never at the same time:

Video inverted, upside down
Video stretched vertically
Video cut off at the sides
Video contains patches of garbled noise

The last one is coming from TMPGEnc. It's the only encoder/converter that isn't causing the above 3, and instead it causes this. I'm starting to run out of ideas. If I could just get it out of this awful (for me) codec, I could probably work with it a lot better, but I don't know what it is to cause so many different problems, only different between different encoders. I've so far given it a try with Aurora, WinAVI, TMPGEnc, WinDVD Creator, and Blaze Media Pro. All of these causing one of these problems.]

Where should I start the troubleshooting at the point I've reached?

[celtic_druid]

What build of ffdshow do you have installed?

h.264 is a standard by the way. The actual codec was probably x264.

[Cyntalan]

Says its version Dec 22 2005.

As far as h264, this is what I got from AVIcodec, so I assumed it to be as such. Though, when looking at what AVI codec says about the vid, it says "h264 = Unknown, Supported"...

[celtic_druid]

That is from recollection the default fourCC for x264 VfW.

A 2005.12.22 build should be fine for AVC decoding.

Inverting is generally caused by bad YV12 to RGB colourspace conversions. If something (like TMPGEnc) requires RGB, then you can limit ffdshow's output to that.

[Cyntalan]

my problem currently with TMPGEnc is the bits of garbled noise that appear all throughout it every few frames. This is something ONLY TMPGEnc has been producing, too. On the other hand, this seems to be the only thing TMPGEnc is doing wrong, whereas all the other encoders/converters have been doing the other, "simpler" problems.

[Baldrick]

i would try avisynth and frameserve to tmpgenc, read
https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=284288