Frameserving problem

[Paul D]

I have two DVDs of my own material which I have to shrink down and put onto one.

It's important to keep the best possible quality, so rather than use DVD Shrink, Instant Copy etc, I thought I would have my first try at frameserving and use AviSynth and CCE basic.

The .avs file I created says:-
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3.dll")
mpeg2source("E:\BS\BS.d2v")

When I came to load it into CCE I either got a file 240 frames long or it said the size was wrong (it reported it as something like 840x50, which it isn't).

So I tried to open the .avs file in Windows Media Player and this is the error message I got (by the way the .vob files open fine in WMP):-

LoadPlugin: unable to load "C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\MPEG2Dec3"
(E:\BS\BS.avs, line 1)

I assume it means there is something wrong with line 1, but I have checked the path several times and it is OK. Is AviSynth or the plugin not installed properly?

Any help would be really appreciated.

[Paul D]

Something more to report. I realised that I hadn't put the letters "dg" after "MPEG2Dec3".

So I tried that. For a short while I thought my troubles were over - the file loaded and was the right duration. But when I tried to encode it an error message appeared saying "Could not find appropriate video codec for YV12".

Does anyone know what that means and what to do about it?

[au7usa]

Try putting "ConvertToRGB24" at the end of your script.

TMPGEnc doesn't like YUY2, i don't know about CCE.

[troyvcd1]

If your frameserving to cce the last line of your script must be:

converttoyuy2()

[Paul D]

Many thanks for the suggestions. From information picked up elsewhere I tried adding "ConvertToRGB" and that seems to work.

However I will try both of your suggestions, but does anyone know whether there will be any quality difference between RGB and YUY2.

Thanks again for the information.