[SOLVED] - [HELP] Importing .MKV/.MP4 to VirtualDub (Green/gray screen).

[AiDz0r]

Hi all, i have a AVS file. Inside this file I've typed:

DirectShowSource("D:\des\as.mkv")

When i try to open it up with VirtualDub I end up with this:

General
UniqueID/String : 212212304667628584942508057889727190168 (0x9FA69A6C2572BF358D2829BEB57E1498)
CompleteName : D:\des\as.mkv
Format : Matroska
Format_Version : Version 2
FileSize/String : 313 MiB
Duration/String : 23mn 39s
OverallBitRate/String : 1 851 Kbps
Movie : x - x - x
Encoded_Date : UTC 2012-06-25 00:41:27
Encoded_Application : mkvmerge v5.0.1 ('Es ist Sommer') built on Oct 9 2011 11:55:43
Encoded_Library/String : libebml v1.2.2 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Attachment : Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes / Yes

Video
ID/String : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format_Profile : High 10@L5.0
Format_Settings_CABAC/String : Yes
Format_Settings_RefFrames/String : 16 frames
MuxingMode : Header stripping
CodecID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration/String : 23mn 39s
Width/String : 1 280 pixels
Height/String : 720 pixels
DisplayAspectRatio/String : 16:9
FrameRate_Mode/String : Constant
FrameRate/String : 23.976 fps
ColorSpace : YUV
ChromaSubsampling : 4:2:0
BitDepth/String : 10 bits
ScanType/String : Progressive
Title : H.264
Encoded_Library/String : x264 core 125 r2200+677M 3a754e7
Encoded_Library_Settings : cabac=1 / ref=16 / deblock=1:1:1 / analyse=0x3:0x133 / me=umh / subme=10 / psy=1 / fade_compensate=0.80 / psy_rd=0.60:0.04 / mixed_ref=1 / me_range=24 / chroma_me=1 / trellis=2 / 8x8dct=1 / cqm=0 / deadzone=21,11 / fast_pskip=1 / chroma_qp_offset=-3 / threads=12 / lookahead_threads=2 / sliced_threads=0 / nr=0 / decimate=1 / interlaced=0 / bluray_compat=0 / constrained_intra=0 / fgo=0 / bframes=10 / b_pyramid=2 / b_adapt=2 / b_bias=0 / direct=3 / weightb=1 / open_gop=0 / weightp=2 / keyint=250 / keyint_min=23 / scenecut=40 / intra_refresh=0 / rc_lookahead=60 / rc=crf / mbtree=1 / crf=16.7000 / qcomp=0.60 / qpmin=0 / qpmax=81 / qpstep=4 / ip_ratio=1.40 / aq=3:0.80
Default/String : Yes
Forced/String : No
Matrix coefficients : BT.709

Audio
ID/String : 2
Format : AAC
Format/Info : Advanced Audio Codec
Format_Profile : LC
CodecID : A_AAC
Duration/String : 23mn 39s
Channel(s)/String : 2 channels
ChannelPositions : Front: L R
SamplingRate/String : 48.0 KHz
Compression_Mode/String : Lossy
Title : Japanese 2.0 AAC
Language/String : Japanese
Default/String : Yes
Forced/String : No

Text #1
ID/String : 3
Format : ASS
CodecID : S_TEXT/ASS
CodecID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression_Mode/String : Lossless
Title : English subtitles
Language/String : English
Default/String : Yes
Forced/String : No

Text #2
ID/String : 4
Format : ASS
CodecID : S_TEXT/ASS
CodecID/Info : Advanced Sub Station Alpha
Compression_Mode/String : Lossless
Title : Wapanese subtitles
Language/String : English
Default/String : No
Forced/String : No

Menu
00:00:00.000 : en:Intro
00:01:54.988 : en:Part A
00:09:23.937 : en:Eyecatch
00:09:28.358 : en:Part B
00:21:57.148 : en:Outro

I have installed:
*Avsynth 2.5.8
*FFdshow rev4422_20120409
*MatroskaSplitter
*VirtualDub 1.9.11

I'm not sure what I must do in order to view this mkv file in VirtualDub. I really don't want to compress it to .avi or any other codec because this would be just useless, because of the quality loss within the conversion no matter high high you keep your bitrate, the more you keep encoding a file the more it would be jittered. So if you could suggest something else besides converting the file to .avi then importing it, it would be great.

[AiDz0r]

Solution:

Only Requirements:
*ffmpegsource
*VirtualDub
*Avisynth 2.5.8
 
1- Download FFmpegSource (ffms-2.17.7z)
2- Create a .avs file with notepad and type:

	

		

			

			
				
LoadPlugin("C:\LOCATION\ffms2.dll")
ffvideosource("C:\LOCATION\encodethisfile.mkv")
			
		
	
 3- Using VirtualDub you can drag and drop the file .avs after you have saved it, and it would work, also you can open the .avs with other encoders that supports avisynth. Like, RipBot.

[poisondeathray]

I'm not sure what I must do in order to view this mkv file in VirtualDub. I really don't want to compress it to .avi or any other codec because this would be just useless, because of the quality loss within the conversion no matter high high you keep your bitrate, the more you keep encoding a file the more it would be jittered. So if you could suggest something else besides converting the file to .avi then importing it, it would be great.

When you use avisynth, it frameserves uncompressed video & audio

Therefore you have to re-encode it, unless you plan on keeping it uncompressed (huge sizes)


Why are you using vdub? What do you intend to do ?

[AiDz0r]

Ok don't worry, my plan was to encode/compress videos, without going through compression even more.

So before, i needed to convert my mkv --to--> .avi --import--> (vdub compress, trim,edit) --export-->.avi.
However, it was only to prevent further converting. So with the "ffms" plugin, you can prevent that from happening, and import files to VirtualDub, as you saw earlier I used to get green screen/errors when importing, with this plugin it works perfectly fine.

Anyway, i've solved my problem. I'm now using RipBot: and this is my .avs file:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files (x86)\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\ffms2.dll")
video = ffvideosource("D:\as.mkv")
audio = ffaudiosource("D:\as.mkv")
AudioDub(video, audio)
Trim(18683,28339)

I can straight do that, without a longer process.


Actually I have a compressed video (mkv). But it needs to be abit more compressed/resized (trimmed), because i need to upload it to a website and only a portion of it, therefore, this was the best solution. Only involves one step.

[Budman1]

I may be wrong but I get the 'green' screen sometimes when I import to Virtualdub, depending on the vfw codec it uses to import. The fact that you get a screen at all and not an error message says it imported ok. Just hit play(1) and it will change and not return when you move pointer back to start.

BTW.. if you right click the green screen and change to 50% or 75 %,you will be able to see the right pane and can chage that also.



Notice below the seek bar is passed start AND size changed to 50% in left pane. You can also change right pane in the same method.

The green pane is just how Virtualdub displays some formats like thumbnails display differently for same video in a different format. It does not affect
the conversion and will not show up once you move passed the start, even if moved back to start.

[AiDz0r]

Yeah, i've tried that a lot times, I've played the video, re-sized, even compressed it, all i got was green and in fact disabled "use DirectX" from VirtualDub settings. None of these helped. By all means I've diagnosed and played around with it a lot and finally solved it.

[Budman1]

Good work. Looks like you did everything! I know I had problems with Matroska, especially version 2 and I did something similar to your fix. I just loaded FFInputDriver.vdplugin and associated folders (.svn and ffdlls) into plugins32 and pulled the matroska plugin. It Used ffmeg dll's similar avisynths after that and worked fine.


Glad you found a fix. I love Virtualdub and so far have been able to play about anything but it sometimes needs a new VFW codec if I come across a new format.
I DO like that one step method and am definitely going to check that out.
Thanks.

[AiDz0r]

Sweet! I need someone to check my X264 option. It's for 10BIT-high bitrate anime compression I'm currently using RipBot with these options:

--profile high10 --level 5.1 --preset veryslow --tune animation --bframes 16 --b-pyramid strict --b-adapt 2 --ref 5 --deblock -3:-3 --aud --nal-hrd vbr --vbv-bufsize 300000 --vbv-maxrate 300000 --trellis 2 --me tesa --subme 10 --weightb --aq-mode 1 --aq-strength 0.86 --analyse all --8x8dct --partitions all --direct auto --threads auto --thread-input --keyint 24 --min-keyint 2

Is there any way to improve the quality?