My problems with .dv to .avi

[Arnaut]

I have the same kind of problem with .dv material, but they are a little bit different;
I use a A/D-converter (Formac Studio) and record it with iMovie, cut the commercials out and export it as a medium quality 720*576 PAL DV stream with 48 kHz to an external Lacie d2 FireWire-harddrive; it is then one .dv file with 15-20 GB; then I try to encode it in ffmpegX 0.0.9a to an .avi.
The settings are as following: mp3 audio with 192 kBits VBR, recorded as one 1,2 GB avi file with 2000 kBits video bitrate, and cropping as following: 704 434 8 70; in the video settings I take as video parameters 704*434, Unknown and PAL 25 images/sec frequency.

When I use the ffmpeg codec, it starts encoding and i get the following message: <dimensions are out of range, remember to scale first and then crop second>; i use the deinterlace filter with two-pass, high quality, B-Frames and and 4 motion vectors.

When I use the mencoder codec, it starts encoding and stops after 9min 55 sec of the movie processed without any warnings; I use all filters available and two-pass with all other options activated.

I still can encode it with ffmpeg without cropping, but I would like to take advantages of the better filters of mencoder, so if someone could give me an advice, I would be very, very happy to really start using my Mac the real way.



P.S.:
I tried to do it again with 3 movies (each 83 mins with 3.5 mb/sec DV) in serie and got the following output:

Encoding started on Sun Nov 9 04:01:18 CET 2003
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /sw/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MEncoder dev-CVS-030226-15:00-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
AltiVec found
Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x6B9BE500
RAWDV file format detected.
[V] filefmt:22 fourcc:0x44535644 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 3600000->192000 (28800.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [libdv] afm:libdv (raw DV audio decoder (libdv))
================================================== ========================
Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
Requested video codec family [qdv] (vfm=dshow) not available (enable it at compilation)
osd: 1
Opening video filter: [scale=704:458]
Opening video filter: [crop=704:458:8:60]
Crop: 704 x 458, 8 ; 60
Opening video filter: [lavcdeint]
Opening video filter: [denoise3d]
Opening video filter: [pp=0x77]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV decoder)
================================================== ========================
MP3 audio selected
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Writing AVI header...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
videocodec: libavcodec (704x458 fourcc=58564944 [XVID])
High quality encoding selected (non real time)!
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Skipping frame!
Writing AVI index...
Fixing AVI header...
Video stream: 1537.388 kbit/s (192173 bps) size: 114635304 bytes 596.520 secs 14914 frames
Audio stream: 108.444 kbit/s (13555 bps) size: 8092944 bytes 597.024 secs
Using GNU internationalization
Original domain: messages
Original dirname: /sw/share/locale
Current domain: mplayer
Current dirname: /usr/local/share/locale
MEncoder dev-CVS-030226-15:00-3.1 (C) 2000-2003 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS)
AltiVec found
Reading /Users/arnautnaegele/.mplayer/codecs.conf: Reading /usr/local/etc/mplayer/codecs.conf: Using built-in default codecs.conf
File not found: 'frameno.avi'
success: format: 0 data: 0x0 - 0x6B9BE500
RAWDV file format detected.
[V] filefmt:22 fourcc:0x44535644 size:720x576 fps:25.00 ftime:=0.0400
================================================== ========================
Opening audio decoder: [libdv] Raw DV Audio Decoder
AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, 16 bit (0x20), ratio: 3600000->192000 (28800.0 kbit)
Selected audio codec: [libdv] afm:libdv (raw DV audio decoder (libdv))
================================================== ========================
Requested video codec family [qdv] (vfm=dshow) not available (enable it at compilation)
Opening video filter: [expand=-1:-1:-1:-1:1]
Expand: -1 x -1, -1 ; -1 (-1=autodetect) osd: 1
Opening video filter: [scale=704:458]
Opening video filter: [crop=704:458:8:60]
Crop: 704 x 458, 8 ; 60
Opening video filter: [lavcdeint]
Opening video filter: [denoise3d]
Opening video filter: [pp=0x77]
================================================== ========================
Opening video decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg's libavcodec codec family
Selected video codec: [ffdv] vfm:ffmpeg (FFmpeg DV decoder)
================================================== ========================
MP3 audio selected
Building audio filter chain for 48000Hz/2ch/16bit -> 48000Hz/2ch/16bit...
Writing AVI header...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
[PP] Using external postprocessing filter, max q = 6.
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 1)
Movie-Aspect is undefined - no prescaling applied.
SwScaler: using unscaled Planar YV12 -> Planar YV12 special converter
New_Face failed. Maybe the font path is wrong.
Please supply the text font file (~/.mplayer/subfont.ttf).
videocodec: libavcodec (704x458 fourcc=58564944 [XVID])
High quality encoding selected (non real time)!
subtitle font: load_sub_face failed.
Skipping frame!
Writing AVI index...
Fixing AVI header...
Video stream: 1621.954 kbit/s (202744 bps) size: 120941018 bytes 596.520 secs 14914 frames
Audio stream: 108.444 kbit/s (13555 bps) size: 8092944 bytes 597.024 secs
Encoding completed on Sun Nov 9 05:29:36 CET 2003

I hope it will help you.

[major]

When encoding with ffmpeg codec, the crop values must be manually converted in TBLR format (pixels to crop at Top, Bottom, Left, Right) insted of mencoder WHXY (width, height, [x,y] position of upper left hand corner) format. This conversion will be automated in future versions.