ripping-dvd2avi-vfapiconvert-cce="coneheads"

[alturismo]

hi,

have a little prob when doing that

just picture size problem, audio is all fine how to do

1. smartripper - ripping the movie
2. dvd2avi - save project to create my *.d2v file
3. vfapicon - to create an *.avi out of *.d2v file so cce can handle it
4. cce 2.5s - encoding to mpeg2 stream
5. spruceUP - author my dvd

my problem is now, either format i choose in cce for encoding like,
4:3, 16:9, .. all final *.mpv streams are not in my 4:3 letter box format,
all are to "high" in size, so i have to switch my tv to 16:9 mode
(what my other tv doesnt support) to get the right size.

as there seems to be no way to change the aspect ratio in dvd2avi already
i believe there must be something in cce to set, but couldnt figure it out.
(i tryed all 4 seetings and encoded them to test, all come the same out)

or do i have to do 1 more step between ? like resize, patch...

thx ahead

[Truman]

Neither dvd2avi nor cce have a real resize filter. You can use Avisynth, VirtualDub, AviUtl or TMPGEnc. to resize and frameserve to cce.

[alturismo]

thx fo rreply

meanwhile i started with frameservin with virtual dub and resizing
like guided in dooms

i come all through but when starting cce

open the *.avi file vdub frameserver has created,

cce stops immediately and closes itself (crash ???)

may there any suggestions ?

thx ahead

[Truman]

Have you tried to save the signpost file as *.vdr, turn off the proxy and add a wav source? Frameserving with VD is quite weird sometimes.

[alturismo]

well, i saved the signpost file as *.avi, not as vdr

like in guide is mentioned so cce can handle that

and no, i dont load any wav file cause i make the audio edit seperat

[alturismo]

ok

i managed it now

just add the .wav file in vdub and it worked (very strange)

but now

cce got slow as hell

dropped the spped from 0.460 to 0.150

is that normal when resizing ?

if so, i have to find another way, cause thats really not good at all anymore

thx ahead

[Truman]

Bicubic resize is quite slow. You may try bilinear resize instead. It is faster but the image will be softer.
The colorspace of a DVD MPEG-2 is usually YUV 4:2:0 and that is also the colorspace, that cce will use. But VirtualDub filters as well as VFAPI work with RGB colors only. Due to the colorspace conversions the entire process slows down even more. Solution: Use a resize filter, that works with YUV colors. Frameserving with Avisynth is the way to go.

[alturismo]

yep, im just on that one

avs seems to be the best and fastest way

only problem then i still have

simple resize

dunno really how to build that one in with the *.avs

are there any examples how to use that somewhere

like *.avs files to take a look at

thx ahead

[Truman]

SimpleResize is not a native Avisynth filter but a plugin.

LoadPlugin("c:\winnt\system32\simpleresize.dll")
LoadPlugin("c:\winnt\system32\mpeg2dec2.dll")
mpeg2source(h:\file.d2v")
SimpleResize(x,y)
AddBorders(l,t,r,b)

[apollo]

After Spruceup has generated the VIDEO_TS folder open up VTS_01_0.IFO with ifoedit and click on VTSI_MAT at the top then scroll down to 00000200 and double click on that line it will then bring up a options box which allows you to change the ratio settings, the best thing to do is open the original ifo and copy the settings from that and then save the ifo.

[alturismo]

wow

thx all

i manages meanwhile how to resize with avs

thx anyway truman

will also give a try with that ifo edit, cause without resizing and
.avs frameserving i get .550 converting ratio in cce, and that
with my good old pIII/750

with an little ifo edit, would be awesome

thx again for helping

was a pain for me