CCE not recognising AVI using Avisynth.

[ToniMontana]

I am using CinemaCraft Encoder to convert my AVI movies into DVDs. The problem is for some movies, CCE doesnt seem to recognise the file properly. The duration always appears to be 09:15 and the frames is always 240. I am generating the script using FitCd although I get the same problem when creating the script by hand. An example script is:

# -= AviSynth v2.0.8.0 script by FitCD v1.2.4 =-
AVISource("F:\Movies\True Romance.avi")
BicubicResize(720,448)
AddBorders(0,64,0,64)
#Trim(0,174376).FadeOut(150)
ConvertToYUY2() # For VirtualDub or CCE
AudioDub(BlankClip()) # a CCE 2.50 'crashfix' for Athlons

I am using CCE version 2.70.01.

Any help would be appreciated.

[SLK001]

I think that it is encoding your BLANKCLIP only, since that was the last video file presented. Take out the AudioDub command.

[ToniMontana]

Unfortunately this didnt work.
Its strange that it seems to work on some files whereas it doesnt on others. An example script of one that worked is:

# -= AviSynth v2.0.8.0 script by FitCD v1.2.4 =-
AVISource("F:\Movies\Wrong.Turn.DVDRip.DivX.avi")
LanczosResize(720,576)
AssumeFPS(25.000, true)
#Trim(0,121030).FadeOut(150)
ConvertToYUY2() # For VirtualDub or CCE
AudioDub(BlankClip()) # a CCE 2.50 'crashfix' for Athlons

[Abond]

You are using very old version of Avisynth. Install 2.5.5
If you want to use this version the line for CCE should read AFAIK
Resampleaudio(44100)

[thor300]

That "true romance" file and the others that didnt work, did you scan them for errors? Use for example virtualdub, click Video -> Scan videostream for errors.

[SLK001]

Well, then, take ALL of the commands out, then put them in ONE AT A TIME. Find out which command is giving you problems.

Also, what is the error that AVISYNTH is giving you?

[ToniMontana]

none of this works.
If I select the divx file directly in CCE, rather than selecting the script, then it appears to recognise the length of the file fine.

[SLK001]

You probably don't have the correct codec installed.

Since when does CCE directly load DivX files?

[SLK001]

Also, what happens when you load your .AVS file into WMP?

[thor300]

Since when does CCE directly load DivX files?

Strange question for someone who obviously does lots of digital video. AVI has always been supported by CCE as far as i know, thats what CCE does, mainly. If it didnt support AVI it wouldnt load AviSynth scripts either. The problem with CCE used to be that it didnt have built in resize and framerate conversion/change, with newer versions AviSynth is not really required unless one is doing more advanced filtering or adding special effects and so on, but AviSynth still increases the speed and sometimes also the quality even when using latest CCE versions.

[hrlslcbr]

If you don't use any filter in Avisynth it's impossible that it would give better quality; and it doesn't speed up the encoding.

[SLK001]

As far as I know, a DIVX file is not an AVI file. It uses a compression based on the MPEG-4 standard.

Unless, of course, we're talking about a different DIVX format!

[hrlslcbr]

avi is not a format but a container. Most DivX files are inside an avi container.

[ToniMontana]

When I load the AVS script into WMP, I get the following error:

ACM failed to suggest a compatible PCM format.

This only happens on the files that fail to load into CCE.

[hrlslcbr]

You don't need the AudioDub(BlankClip()) line there (it's a fix for the old version of CCE).

[thor300]

Since as good as all DivX files have .avi extension i see no reason to assume that this file of Toni is NOT avi.

hrlslcbr, do you think im THAT stupid? Read the posts before replying your wise one-liners. But you asked for it, and heres the tea-spoon, open up baby: AviSynth is faster in resizing and you can choose what method to use, thereby getting better quality in some cases. Or wasnt that the problem? Maybe you consider resizing to be ADVANCED FILTERING?
Blank avs scripts, nice one hrlslcbr

[Abond]

When I load the AVS script into WMP, I get the following error:

ACM failed to suggest a compatible PCM format.

This only happens on the files that fail to load into CCE.

Try to change the first line as:
AVISource("F:\Movies\True Romance.avi",false)

[SLK001]

avi is not a format but a container. Most DivX files are inside an avi container.

I was assuming that since they were based on an MP4 codec that they would be in an MP4 container. I've never used DIVX, so I didn't really know the correct file extention.

[hrlslcbr]

...with newer versions AviSynth is not really required unless one is doing more advanced filtering or adding special effects and so on, but AviSynth still increases the speed and sometimes also the quality even when using latest CCE versions.

You never said that avisynth increases speed by using filters; you only said that avisynth increases the speed with the latest versions of CCE

I agree that avisynth is faster when doing advanced filtering (and resizing; and no, I don't think resizing is advanced filtering).
Have you ever tried to load an MPEG-2 file directly into CCE?
Well, now you have one reason to use blank scripts

Sorry for posting those small replies...I'll try not to post something like that if there are some people that need more than one line to understand something that easy.

[thor300]

I wouldnt call loading an mpeg2 a blank script, it would most often have 3 lines: loadplugin,mpegsource and converttoyuy2.
Ok, enough off topic and threadjacking for today.

[boon23]

I am by far no expert, but I had a similar problem and my solution was to delte the borders, when they are not necessary. The borders command (0,0,0,0) caused an error of producing 240 frames. deleting the border line from the script solved the problem for me.