Faster conversion-feedback please

[Truman]

DVD2AVI>MPEG2DEC>AVISYNTH>CCE 2.50

I just searched the forum and saw almost nobody use the new dvd2avi frameserving method. So I start this topic in hope to get lots of feedback.
The method above use MMX optimized Avisynth with a MPEG-2 decoding plugin. It speeds up frameserving by keeping the video data in the dvd native YUV2 colourspace (VFAPI operates with RGB, so everything has to be converted)
Following software is needed and downloadable here: http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm
DVD2AVI 1.76
MMX optimized Avisynth
MPEG2DEC (Avisynth plugin)

I just played around with that and found out, that Avisynth do crop, resize and add borders very well.
My source was DVD PAL 16:9 (1:1,85) and I want XSVCD 720x576 (4:3)

smartripper 2.28
dvd2avi 1.76
Avisynth scipt:
LoadPlugin("C:\program files\MPEG2DEC\MPEG2DEC.DLL")
mpeg2source("F:\movie\movie.d2v")
Crop(0,16,720,544)
BicubicResize(720,400)
AddBorders(0,88,0,88)
CCE SP 2.50 (v.2.62 wont accept the .avs. TMPG should also work, if you have installed huffyuv and edited the SYSTEM.INI a bit)
tooLAME for audio and TMPG for multiplexing.

One hour movie took 1:40 hours to convert one pass. The method dvd2avi(crop)>TMPG(resize)>VFAPI>CCE has taken 2:26 hours. This is a lovely speed increase by keeping the quality level.

Feel free to reply your experiences with this method.
I'm a newbie to this, any suggestions are very appreciated.

Regards
Truman


<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Truman on 2001-07-08 15:01:24 ]</font>

[Truman]

Is this the wrong place to post that....?

[josiba]

Faster conversion is what I wanted also, but what about the subtitles? I've searched everywhere but I can't find a way of using this method with subtitles. If only avisinth could use the virtualdub subtitles filter... I believe it doesn't work, or is it me that doesn't know how?

I think very few people use this method because it it complicated. It is nothing like flaskmpeg which does it all and also does subtitles fine. But I wanted more speed...

[Truman]

I just found out, that you can use the VirtualDub subtitlefilter in Avisynth (vdfilters.avs come with Avisynth 1.0Beta3).
But it requires to convert from YUV2 to RGB, so you don't have that speed advantage anymore.