frameserve VDub into Procoder

[Fifou]

Hi !

Does anybody tried this ?
frameserve VDub into Procoder ?

tried to change the .vdr to .avi ...
but NO !

Any idea ?

THX

[BJ_M]

did you run the vdub bat file first ?

if you did and it still didnt work you may have to use vfapicon (on your vdr file) or avsynth instead

[Fifou]

I think so...

but the frameserving works with TMPGEnc and not with ProCoder ... ?!

[tphaggerty]

ProCoder 1.5 supports AVISynth directly, works great. Not sure about Vdub.

[Chordmeister]

I've tried both without any luck. Can someone who's had success using avisynth with procoder post an example of their avs/avi file?

What would be really useful also is a suggestion for a good VHS noise removal plugin (temporal/spatial smoother/blurrer type thing).

Hope someone can help.

[frieden]

Can someone who's had success using avisynth with procoder post an example of their avs/avi file?

# General settings for avisynth version 2.52
SetMemoryMax(32)
SetWorkingDir("D:\")

AviSource("FrameServer.avi")
AssumeFieldBased #avisynth normally doesn't guess that
AssumeBFF # Bottom Field First
ConvertToYUY2( interlaced=true)
# audio starts one frame late
DelayAudio(0.04)

# Fix too dark video for YUY<>RGB conversion
Tweak(0.0, 1.0, 3.0, 1.0)

# Cnr2: Chroma Noise Reduction for TV/VHS.
# SpatialSoften: remove noise and sharpen
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AVISynth 2.5\plugins\cnr2.dll")
Cnr2(4, 5, 255)
# test effect of SpatialSoften, when the "Return" Line is active,
# script-processing stops here
# Return StackVertical(last.Subtitle("original"), last.SpatialSoften(5, 2, 3).Subtitle("Spatial")
SpatialSoften(5, 2, 3)

# Shift image 2 pixels to the left
Crop(2, 0, -0, -0)
AddBorders(0, 0, 2, 0)

# resize a 720x576 (CCIR601) DV video to 480x576 with correct aspect ratio
# LanczosResize(480, 576, 8, 0, 704, 576)
# normal resize (SVCD-PAL)
LanczosResize(480, 576, 0, 0, 720, 576)

What would be really useful also is a suggestion for a good VHS noise removal plugin (temporal/spatial smoother/blurrer type thing).

See above. To get Procoder 1.0.x working with frameserving, use link2 (www.videotools.net), just open the *.avs File and wrap it to a (pseudo) AVI, then open that AVI with procoder.

Sorry for the late reply, but this should help.

Kind regards Frieden

[frieden]

Does anybody tried this ?
frameserve VDub into Procoder ?

I strongly recommend not using VirtualDub's frameserver, because it's excessively slow and only operates RGB24, which involves several (lossy!) colorspace conversions.

tried to change the .vdr to .avi ...but NO

See my previous post, avisynth can do everything VirtualDub can and more. You can even use all VirtualDub plugins in avisynth (although not recommended because of colorspace conversion).

If you use avisynth, you'll cut your encoding time in half (no joke), converting to YUY2 again reduces encoding time significantly.

If you still want to use VD'S frameserver: link2 can also wrap this one to a pseudo-avi, which procoder will happily open.

Kind regards Frieden

[kenmo]

Just curious where you able to figure out how to frameserve to Procoder with VirtualDub....I'm not at all interested in figuring out Avisynth...I much prefer the simplicity of VirtualDub....

TIA