Well...I have to encode in Divx3 but there are these horiz..

[magomago]

tal lines that appear.

My friend wants to borrow my DVDs and I spent WAY to much $$$ IMO to lend them out so I figured why not encode him a few eps.

In Divx5 they come out perfectly but some reason his pc (1.5ghz p4) won't play them right...but they'll play Divx3 Low Motion videos fine.

I used Gordian Knot and I noticed there are these horizontal lines that appear when things are moving and its like take a person...they start to run and their legs seem to have one field missing or something. It really isn't noticable but I don't want it.

Any Ideas how to get rid of it? Thanks

[acid512]

Probably an interlacing thing. When converting, try a deinterlacing filter.

Alternativly, consentrate on getting divx5 to work on your mates pc. version 3 is old. I am guessing he does have the divx5 codec installed.

What happens when he tries to play divx5?

[magomago]

audio going out of sync, CPU usage ALWAYS at 100% (quite odd that part especially)


But I found the problem.

The anime (Neon Genesis) is Interlaced so what I did is I forced film with DVD2AVI and then I deinterlaced. PReviously I only forced film when i let him borrow Escfalowne but in DVD2AVI it read it as a progressive image so I didn't have to wory (or rather prograssive/interlaced flicked quickly)




But still not sure why his pc does it...he does have divx 5.02 installed and that is what he uses to play his divx3 movies (he doesn't have the divx 3 codec installed)

As for divx3...it may be older but atleast its stable as hell...but true I do prefer all those nice divx5 features that really make an anime shine but no matter to me since I'm being the nice one and actually wasting CPU cycles to let him see some anime



Note - You guys gotta get more "helpers" in the newbie forum...for every topic that gets an ansewr I see 7 other drift away never to be answered.

[acid512]

Hey, another anime ripper, thought i was the only one.

I got the same thing you were asking (lines, nothing else) about when ripping Cowboy bebop.

Just out of interest, have you tried encoding some random video to divx5 and playing on your mates pc? I find anime a complete pain in the arse to encode, it all seems different.

I have a pretty reliable method to rip anime to divx, particularly usefull for getting individual eps as seperate divx files. If you are interested in this, just ask.

As for more helpers in the newbie section, helpers are just members like you, with a bit of experiance (sometimes). Try answering a few yourself. The reason i dont answer alot of newbie ones is cause they are useually so lazy. "how do i get 14 DVDs in top quality onto 1 CD-r to play in my walkman?". When i do answer some, i get bombarded with emails for help every step, despite refering people to guides.


Anyway, goodluck and let me know how the random vid test worked

[magomago]

I don't hink I need to do that because I encode my episodes 9-16 of escaflowne for him and all of the experienced this....save for episode 14 (But for some reason it still had cpu usage at 100%)

So then I thought "maybe I burned it wrong" b/c they played fine on my PC (I watched an ep but didn't watch others mainly because the color on the tv looks a LOT richer) so i reburned a few episodes at a pretty slow speed (8x? My burner is a 48x one) and the same thing still happend. Copied them to the hdd to no avail b/c it still had those weird symptoms. Then I popped them in another friend's pc and somehow they worked.

Go figure

But I just did the first ep of EVA successfuly...instead of ripping that gofawful 4.X gig vob like I did I found that the first 4 chapters were episode one so I ripped those + subs+ japanese audio and then i popped that into DVD2AVI and selected "FORCE FILM" to get it down to 23.976.

But that didn't solve deinterlacing issues...when i setup gknot in the final stages I had to select de-interlace. Did that and 45 minutes later out popped episdoe 1

Though I can definitely tell the difference between Divx3 and Divx5. It seems that Divx5 gives a LOT better quality (I used divx 5 pro with all options enabled) for the file size.

Still amazed me though how a 1.5gig processor, and 512 megs of ram (doesn't even matter in this situation if its ddr, ramubus, or good old pc133 sdram) and a solid intel chipset is pushed to 100% when playing a divx5 episdoe (this promptly drops down to 60% average on a Divx 3 file)

For me I get between 40-50% cpu usage playing a divx3 file and no more than 60% playing a divx5 (obviously divx5 has more features and needs a meatier CPU)

And sure, toss me your version...Anyway to expand knowledge and replace inferior methods with more superior I'll gladly accept.


But ADV sure does make it a bitch to encode their animes compared to others...atleast Bandai seperates the freaking episodes and its already a progressive capture


EDIT:

btw....LMAO at the 14 dvds on a walkman...that's a classic

[acid512]

Just a quick suggestion - ill look at things a bit closer later when i got more time:

*Try using a more compressed audio, even if it sounds crap, just to see.

*Look at your mates decoder settings (startmenu>programs>DivX> Divxpro5 codec>decoder settings), as this might overload the cpu if the settings are to high (just guessing here, so dont quote me)

[magomago]

How can a 1.5Ghz processor be limited in divx decoding for playback?

How would I used compressed audio? Its currently using VBR 192kbps (fluctuates between 16- and 256)

What amazes me is that the pentium4 is supposed to be god at encoding/decoding.

[acid512]

I dont have a great deal of experiance with VBR in divx, but heres how to compress the sound of a CBR avi file (probley work for VBR)

open the .avi file with virtualdub, set video to direct stream copy, and set audio to full proccesing mode. Then go back into audio and set the codec to (for example)mpeg layer 3, and choose a low setting(the very low settings will sound crap, but will make a good test) from the list on the right. Choose file>save as new avi

As for why a pentium1.5Ghz should have trouble, i simply dont know, and am only giving a few suggestions. I have always used AMD proccesors, and never had many probs.

To rule out the way you have encoded or ripped the video, go to http://www.angelfire.com/anime2/mihoshi152/testavi.htm to download a tiny video of mine, that uses low bitrate (CBR) divX5 and 8kbps mono mp3 sound. Its only 328KB, so fine for dialup users.

Try this vid on your mates pc. If it doesnt play, he's got some probs with his machine. BEWARE this is hosted on free angelfire, so you will get an anoying popup when you go there.

[magomago]

I d/led it but you know whatelse I realized...

The files I gave him were pretty highy quality DIVX5 ( 30 minutes @ 300-350 megabytes)

His computer will play MP3s as I showed him how to rip his dad's collection (his dad has a $hitload of cds...alteast 200 but thank god its good music) and he did at a few at 320kbps...

For my next test I'll toss a couple secs of video w/o audio and see what happens


But previously I had encoded in widescreen using the exact same method but i limited it to ( 30 minutes @ 180-200) that and the quality was much better (again though...the audio was at 128k and not 192k)

Btw that is some pretty good compression you got there...16 seconds for 300k Even though I really don't like DBZ (and I usually dislike dubs unles they are as good as their Japanese Countesrparts) that is excellent wow...not bad I didn't know 15 FPS at 142kbps and 8k/bs on the sound was nice

As for compress I think we got stuck on terminoloyg I would've viewed that as downsampling. When I think compress I think of making the size smaller BUT it later decompresses and you get the original quality...in this you just downsample it

To do that VBR I'd just have to encode in a lot less quality.

And as for his pc its some VAIO...and he has WinXP (not sure if its SP1...was there ever a bug with the original version?)

Is there a buddy list on these forums b/c I need to add someone