No PAL support? Hope you guys can give a hand sorting this mess out.

[Zanozk]

Hey there! Completely new to this forum and in need of a speedy answer. I need to have about.. oh, 18 episodes of a 20 min TV series, which are currently in AVI form, converted by tomorrow noon. It's currently 6:22pm.

Here's the thing. I followed a guide online which I'll link to in a second that was pretty much perfect. It batch converted my AVI episodes into MPEG format, the end result was a mpg file anyways, i think it added two different parts together into the final MPEG form, anyways! I bet you guys can figure that out, im really new to all this, it also added a nice black border around them that made sure the TV didnt overscan and mess up the subtitles, that was the best part. The only problem was, no PAL support.

Here's the guide.

http://www.playbackhelp.com/doc/guides/queue/

The program seemed to use Queenc for encoding and AVIsynth for.. something. I'm very new to all this.


Here's what the author of the guide says it does if that helps.

If you are interested, this is what the encode batch file does:

* If you are encoding a MKV file with soft subtitles (and MKVExtractSubs is set to 1) it will extract the subtitles first.

* The encode of the video is then started using either CCE or QuEnc

* If the source video was 23.976 fps, PullDown is started to make sure the encoded m2v file is played at 29.970 fps on your DVD player. If it was already 29.970 fps, it just moves it.

* If you are encoding a MKV or MP4 file, the audio is extracted from the source file.

* If the extracted audio is AAC, it is converted to WAV using Faad

* BeSweet is started to encode the audio from either the AVI file directly, the extracted audio file or an external WAV file with the same filename in the same folder as the source video.

* If SkipMplex is not set to 1, then the m2v file (from CCE or QuEnc) and mp2 file (from BeSweet) are multiplexed into a mpg file, otherwise the files are just moved. Please note that the MPlex phase might take a while not seeming to do "anything". Please wait until it is finished, which can take a few minutes depending on the file length.

* If all previous steps were succesful, all intermediate files (AVS, NFO, etc) are cleaned up (deleted) and the batch file "self destructs" itself by moving itself to the Done folder.

If some kind soul with some time on their hands could tell me how I would go about either changing that guide so it does PAL or give me an alternate method to convert that would be great

I hope i wrote enough info in here..

I hope someone could either answer here or add me to MSN and help me out. I'm supposed to take my littlesisters to my dad's house tomorrow and I wanna make sure they dont get bored.

MSN : Peter_Losonci@hotmail.com

[FulciLives]

ConvertXToDVD

Supposedly the best of the "one click wonders" which is the only way you'll ever get anything done in your time frame.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[Zanozk]

Thanks!

I hope it can add that black border around the video. If the video doesnt have a black border the subtitles are cut and unreadable.. Hope it works!

[Zanozk]

Aah! It cant. Any other suggestions anyone? Cant I just alter the authors script to the right resolution and frames per second?

[FulciLives]

You might want to try my "mini-guide" although it is a work in progress:

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=316333

Good Luck !!!

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
If you have to do 23.976fps to 25fps then look up DGPulldown

[guns1inger]

ConvertXtoDVD can read avisynth scripts, so you can use FitCD to create a script with borders, then get ConvertXtoDVD to process it.

[FulciLives]

ConvertXtoDVD can read avisynth scripts, so you can use FitCD to create a script with borders, then get ConvertXtoDVD to process it.

I didn't know that ... I just started recommending it as of late without ever really using it because other people keep saying it is the best of the "one click" programs.

Since this person wanted to get things done FAST I figured it was a good option.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

[guns1inger]

AVS support was added about a month ago. It seems to be OK for simple scripts, but I have read reports of it choking on more complex ones. Given AVS is doing most of the work, I figure it is just teething problems with the timing of reading the frameserver. VSO seem to be doing a good job at constantly adding to or improving the list of formats supported. RM support was added in the last release, and they also handle some MKV and OGM files.

[Soopafresh]

Makes sense. FFmpeg has direct support for Avisynth AVS files since Sept/Oct of this year...