I need some help on writing H.264 AVISynth scripts

[rocky12]

H:\>cd Dick Tracy (1990)

H:\Dick Tracy (1990)>divx264 -br 700 -npass 1 -i MyScript.avs -o 1stpass.h264
Framerate outside profile specification (23.976Hz) (2997/125)




Does that look like it's encoding? I get a flashing white cursor.

If your current source is similar to the earlier one you posted it's 720x416, 23.976 fps. That's fine for any h.264 encoder.

Multipass encoding is a matter of the encoder, not AviSynth. You can get a list of Divx264 options by typing:

divx264 -help

Or just download the help file from their web site:
http://labs.divx.com/files/DivX264_Alpha1_Help.txt

It looks like you have to envoke the two passes individually:

divx264 -npass 1 -i script.avs -o output.h264
divx264 -npass 2 -i script.avs -o output.h264

You'll have to add other argements to specify bitrate etc.

[jagabo]

http://labs.divx.com/node/6992

Try adding "-fps 24000/1001" to the command line.

Instead of encoding a whole movie I suggest you work with a 1 minute clip until you've figured out what you're doing.

[rocky12]

http://labs.divx.com/node/6992

Try adding "-fps 24000/1001" to the command line.

Instead of encoding a whole movie I suggest you work with a 1 minute clip until you've figured out what you're doing.

I got it. Does H.264 require MP3, or AC3, for audio? I am just curious.

[jagabo]

h.264 is only concerned with video. Audio is a container issue.

[rocky12]

h.264 is only concerned with video. Audio is a container issue.

What do you mean audio is a container issue? I am encoding my video with MP3. That isn't good?

[jagabo]

h.264 is a video codec. It has nothing to do with audio. What audio codec you want to use will depend on what container you will be putting your audio and video in and what capabilities your playback device has. The Divx docs use MkvMerge. Since you are only concerned about playback on your PC MP3 audio is fine in an MKV container.

[rocky12]

h.264 is a video codec. It has nothing to do with audio. What audio codec you want to use will depend on what container you will be putting your audio and video in and what capabilities your playback device has. The Divx docs use MkvMerge. Since you are only concerned about playback on your PC MP3 audio is fine in an MKV container.

It has to be for my PC unless I have a HD DVD player. I don't have one so I can't play it on my TV. I might email him and ask him do they plan on making DivX 7 for Philips, or regular standalone. I know they are making them for playback. I am not sure for playback of just HD DVD, or what.

[FulciLives]

MP4 is a more common container and AAC-LC audio at 128kbps - 256kbps (in that range) is the standard.

So for the future I suggest you use AAC-LC and the MP4 file container.

XVID4PSP is a nice program for both H.264 video encoding and AAC-LC audio encoding.

- John "FulciLives" Coleman

P.S.
When I say MP4 is more common I mean for H.264 video use.

[jagabo]

I don't know how successful Divx (the company) will be in convincing the big consumer electronics manufacturers to support MKV.

[rocky12]

http://labs.divx.com/node/6992

Try adding "-fps 24000/1001" to the command line.

Instead of encoding a whole movie I suggest you work with a 1 minute clip until you've figured out what you're doing.

jagabo,

One of my movies worked with encoding, and everything. The second won't encode. I tried to encode it both ways. The first way worked fine the first time after I tried it. The way with -fps also worked but now it doesn't. Should I post a new thread? I will post my CLI logs. Am I doing it right? I think I am.





C:\Program Files\DivX\DivX H.264 Codec CLI\bin>H:

H:\>cd E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

H:\E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)>divx264 -br 800 -aqo 2 -npass 1 -i MyScript
.avs -o 1stpass.264
Error: Width or height outside profile specification (640x56)

H:\E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)>divx264 -br 800 -fps 24000/1001 -aqo 2 -npa
ss 1 -i MyScript.avs -o 1stpass.264
Error: Width or height outside profile specification (640x56)

H:\E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)>

[jagabo]

Error: Width or height outside profile specification (640x56)

DivX 7 places constraints on these properties, requiring that the picture dimensions be at least 320x240 pixels with width and height each being multiples of eight

[rocky12]

Error: Width or height outside profile specification (640x56)

The Width and height is 688x384

Do I need to resize it? It's 16:9 at 23.976 which is NTSC. I was thinking resize to 640x352?

[jagabo]

The Width and height is 688x384

Not according to the error message.

[rocky12]

The Width and height is 688x384

Not according to the error message.

According to MediaInfo it's 688x384. I will post the video file with no audio. Here are the logs.



General
Complete name : H:\E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)\video.avi
Format : AVI
Format/Info : Audio Video Interleave
File size : 1 018 MiB
Duration : 2h 0mn
Overall bit rate : 1 186 Kbps
Writing application : VirtualDubMod 1.5.10.2 (build 2540/release)
Writing library : VirtualDubMod build 2540/release

Video
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Streaming Video@L1
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Muxing mode : Packed bitstream
Codec ID : XVID
Codec ID/Hint : XviD
Duration : 2h 0mn
Bit rate : 1 181 Kbps
Width : 688 pixels
Height : 384 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16/9
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Resolution : 24 bits
Colorimetry : 4:2:0
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.186
Stream size : 1 014 MiB (100%)
Writing library : XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)

[jagabo]

The Width and height is 688x384

Not according to the error message.

According to MediaInfo it's 688x384.

Not after you did whatever you did in the AVS script.

[rocky12]

The Width and height is 688x384

Not according to the error message.

According to MediaInfo it's 688x384.

Not after you did whatever you did in the AVS script.

My script is fine. I have AVISource. I did had ChangeFPS and I took it out of my script. I get the same error so it's not my script.


AVISource("H:\E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982)\video.avi")

That is my script now. With or without ChangeFPS, I still get width and height errors.

[rocky12]

The Width and height is 688x384

Not according to the error message.

According to MediaInfo it's 688x384.

Not after you did whatever you did in the AVS script.

I am sorry, jagabo! I was making the same mistake all day long that I never made in months. That is why we have VirtualDub, or even VirtualDubMod to see if our scripts are right to load. I have been like this all day. It is now 14:40 EST. I translate. 2:40pm. I have it encoding now.