how can i simply frame serve from....

[Cecilio]

I have tried doing a forum search for this, but really haven't had much success. I need to know what would be a quick way to framserve from SVCD to CVD. Im planning on using CCE, and since it doesnt accept MPEG streams, im trying to use a .avs script. what i have done so far, is creat a d2v file, using DVD2AVI and i also used the clip and resize tool, but evey time i encode i get black bars on the right side and on the left side of the video. well from the .d2v file i converted it to avi, via VFAPI. i really haven't figured this out yet, but with some help i could. i also tried frame serving with virtual dub, but when i start frame serving, the frames never move from zero, so

[au7usa]

Is the "Clipping-Resize" function of DVD2AVI compatible with the MPEG2Dec3.dll plugin? I didn't think it was but i'm unable to find any documentation to support this belief.

I actually never tried to use it with AviSynth script. I started with this guide, and have always done it this one way:
http://www.doom9.org/mpg/d2a-mpeg2dec.htm

[DJRumpy]

I agree, I've never had much success trying to crop in DVD2AVI itself, ending up with either a corrupted video feed, or odd mirror images, and ghosting.

Leave cropping off in DVD2AVI and just crop with AVISynth.

Crop( left, top, -right, -bottom)

So if you were cropping an SVCD's letterboxing off, your crop command might look list this:

Crop(0,104,0,-104)

[thor300]

Im not quite sure about this, but it COULD be that you need to uncheck the DVD Compliant option in CCE. Still the better way off doing it is as DJRumpy suggested. As for your frameserving problem with Virtualdub, that could be a missing handler, try to run auxsetup from virtualdub folder again.

[Cecilio]

i never have the DVD compliant option checked under CCE. thanks for the suggestion anyway. DJ Rumpy, thanks for the input, but the thing is i just started to mess around with avysynth, so i might not know how to edit the script. I know that i can open it on note pad, and insert crop (.........), and save it as all files and crop.avs. but even then, im still not very good at avysynth. i'll look at that guide a.s.a.p. thank you all.

[Cecilio]

sorry rumpy, but your script was wrong, but then again, I was some what wrong too in saying i wanted to crop the video. what i meant to do, was to make the video seem as if it is 352*480, instead of 480 by 480. when i inputed your crop script into the avs, the final resolution was 480*276! so i tried it over and over, until i figured it out.

AviSource ("C:\Documents and Settings\Cecilio\Desktop\TEMP\CD1\dmx sampel_d2v_vfapi.avi")

BilinearResize(352,424)

AddBorders(0,28,0,28)

[DJRumpy]

Cecilio, just an FYI, what you were asking for, wasn't cropping, it was a simple resize of your output.

Most people attempt to use the CROP option in DVD2AVI, to remove letterboxing, which is why I gave you the command. It sounds like you basically just wanted a pure SVCD to CVD conversion, with no change in the video's aspect ratio itself.

Out of curiousity, why would you want to convert an SVCD to CVD? Both formats are typically supported by players capable of playing either of the formats (i.e. if they support one, they will typically support the other). Are you moving these MPEG's to DVD (half D1) ?

[Cecilio]

exactly that, yes i am transferring them onto DVD. yea my players support svcd, and cvd very well, but i tried putting svcd on a dvd and i got it to author and everything but it doesn't play good on my dvd player. it plays well at first, but then it starts chopping over and over. as time passes it gets more progressive meaning that at first it takes long to stutter but then when it happens once 2 minutes later theres a stutter, then the next minute and then in 30 seconds and so on and so on. so thats why i want to do what i want to do!