getting frustrated.... :(

[nD84]

I need some help here. I capped The Dead Zone last night and want to encode to vcd and/or svcd. Here's what i did:

Capture: ati tv wonder pci, iuVCR 640x480, YUY2, picvideo mjpeg set @ 19, audio = cd quality
It capped beautifully over 3 avi's (limit was set to ~`3700mb).
Now what i did is tried to bring it into virtualdub - it doesn't automatically pick up the last 2 files - says video sampling rates are different.

so i browse this forum and find avisynth. I make a real simple script file: "DirectShowSource("J:\capture.01.avi")+DirectShowS ource("J:\capture.02.avi")+DirectShowSource("J:\ca pture.03.avi")"
it loads into virtualdub fine. So now i have the "full" video and can now edit out the commercials. Finish that then frameserve to tmpgenc.
Here's where the problems start. I try to load it into TMPGenc but it freezes the application and i have to abort it via task manager. WTF?

As of right now i still have 9 gigs of avi sitting on my hard drive to be edited/encoded. I'm not really sure what to do. I did search for hours on the forums but haven't seen anything that has helped me.

I'm going to be capping alot of shows this season and it be A LOT easier if i could just cap then bring into virtualdub to edit out commercials w/o all these intermediate steps. Is there a setting for iuVCR that can set sampling rates to the same across all recorded files??

btw: don't tell me to use a different capping program because it is the ONLY one that has worked perfectly for me aside from ATI's MMC. (I've tried em all) :P

help a novice out

[snowmoon]

First off... it was a great show ( VCDeasy'ing right now to SVCD ). If the ATI card is BT878 clipset you can use the universal driver ( WDM + VFW support ) and use whatever program you want. I personally use AVI_IO ( paid for it ) and it works great. I have tons of free space so I don't frameserve. Load in vdub, edit , save off wav, save segments .avi ( filterd to huffyuv ), encode audio, encode video, bbMPEG multiplex, VCDeasy and into DVD player for sanity check.

Good luck.

[Poplar]

1. First of all, if you know AVIsynth, you don't need to frameserve through VDub. Vdub is very helpful that you can load your script and preview the clip and get important info, becuase it got a GUI which Avisynth doesn't. But you don't need to frame serve through it. You can frame serve directly via Avisynth. It's much faster.

2. Find start farmes and end frames of commercials using VDub, use Trim filter to edit them out in your script:

trim(0,b) + trim(c,d) + trim(e,f)....
b-c, d-e, ..are frame intervals of commericals

3. Load your AVS into TMPG. I don't know why your computer freezes. I tried it with newest TMPG (2.58?) and it loaded without a hitch.

[nD84]

i'm new to avisynth but is this correct:

v1=AVISource("J:\capture.01.avi")
v2=AVISource("J:\capture.02.avi")
v3=AVISource("J:\capture.03.avi")
Trim(v1,0,8619)+Trim(v1,7760,12717)+Trim(v2,300,58 94)+Trim(v2,24879,31185)+Trim(v3,12620,18932)+Trim (v3,24016,29788)

i tried to load it in tmpgenc but it freezes. Could the problem be that they have different sampling rates (vdub told me this when i tried to append the first file)? And if so, how do i remedy this?

thanks