CCE newbie help...

[biggantdogg]

I'm new to using CCE. How do I get CCE 2.5 to encode a video?
I doesn't seem to accept .d2v files from DVD2AVI.
What do I do to encode a DVD-rip using CCE?

Thanx in advance for any help!!
Also...

Is there any advantage in using CCE over TMPGenc?

[BJ_M]

advantage is it faster ...

you can argue all day long about who is better but the quality is very close and price per performance - tmpgenc is one of the bargins of the decade .. Virtualdub though IS THE deal of the century ..

a guide on how to use CCE is over at the left .. follow that first and if any problems -- ask away ..

[lpn1160]

the quality of a normal vcd with cce is is to say the least "disappointing"
only advantage is speed. stick with tmpeg!!

[biggantdogg]

Thx LPN
I think I'll save myself the trouble of using CCE I guess...

[biggantdogg]

It's weird how it can cost that much money, but do a worse job than $48 or freeware programs???

[banjazzer]

Well, I have used TMPG for a while, but as my interest in SVCD has increased, so has my impatience with the time TMPG takes. So I am now experimenting with CCE.

If you get to a d2v file, get a copy of VFAPV Converter which will transpose your d2v into an avi that CCE can use.

[biggantdogg]

Thx Banjazzer!

[banjazzer]

Sorry, in my haste I have fed you misleading information. 8) Your d2v file will load into TMPG. You then need to save a TMPG proJect (.tpr) which VFAPF Converter will change to an avi.

[BJ_M]

Sorry, in my haste I have fed you misleading information. 8) Your d2v file will load into TMPG. You then need to save a TMPG proJect (.tpr) which VFAPF Converter will change to an avi. :o

i think now then for a long time ive been doing it wrong .. i made d2v file .. converted it with VFAPF Converter and loaded that file into vdub and frame served to whatever (i frame serve to eyeon fusion more often than not) ..

seems to work though ..

[afwasborstel]

advantage is it faster ...

you can argue all day long about who is better but the quality is very close and price per performance - tmpgenc is one of the bargins of the decade .. Virtualdub though IS THE deal of the century

Try to create an vcd or svcd with virtual dub

CCE has also the advantage is doesn't create macro blocks like TMPGenc does....only trouble is u have to use the max bitrate to get a good quality and the multiple passes might give some trouble

[banjazzer]

i think now then for a long time ive been doing it wrong .. i made d2v file .. converted it with VFAPF Converter and loaded that file into vdub and frame served to whatever (i frame serve to eyeon fusion more often than not) ..

seems to work though ..

I suppose the only reason to do that would be if Virtualdub had some filters you wanted to use.

I have only just discovered I can actually use CCE without too much alteration to my usual procedures. When I create DivX from DVD I use Gordian Knot to produce an avisynth file. This will load directly into CCE. If I am converting from DivX I use TMPG, but now I realise I can save directly a project from TMPG which converts to a pseudi-avi CCE can use.

All I need now is to find out how to tweak CCE to get optimum results. 8)

And to find CCE 2.66 at a discount price.

[banjazzer]

Try to create an vcd or svcd with virtual dub

Try to create a DivX with TMPG.

Yes, I know how to, but how do you get 2-pass? 8)

[afwasborstel]

If space isn't an issue...I would use the maximum bitrate for myself that is 2400..audio has to be done separetly...Use TMPGenc or what ever program u normally use to convert audio. Also in CCE unlock the audio function, CCE is known to crash al the time with audio. and If space still isn't an issue use 704*480 or in PAL 704*576...


Goodluck

[afwasborstel]

Try to create a DivX with TMPG

Can be done....Open TMPGenc.....drop what ever file u want to convert.....and the....open File....Output to file....

Goodluck

[banjazzer]

Can be done....Open TMPGenc.....drop what ever file u want to convert.....and the....open File....Output to file....

2-pass???? 8)

[afwasborstel]

Nope...uncompressed AVI...(is the same as u use divx with no compression)

[BJ_M]

Nope...uncompressed AVI...(is the same as u use divx with no compression) :lol:

u can save with compression also -- or any type of avi that you have codecs for -- but his point was that its not going to be two pass ..

[offline]

Why do people use the VFAPV method? It is slow, you lose nifty editing capabilities and it hogs memory. Use avisynth.

[BJ_M]

Why do people use the VFAPV method? It is slow, you lose nifty editing capabilities and it hogs memory. Use avisynth.

i am frame serving to another machine (not compressing to mpeg) - so it didnt mater. but now that you mention it - i will look into avisynth ..

[biggantdogg]

VFAPV slow???
It took like 5 seconds to convert d2v to avi???!!!
I dropped in CCE and it worked fine