Questions about Handbrake DVD rip -> QTGMC 59.94 progressive

[LouGee]

As a continuation of things from this thread:

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/371627-Critique-my-AME-CS6-settings-DV-avi-H-264-WD...V-Media-Player

I have a bunch of DVD's of my daughters ballet recitals. These are semi-pro shot and they sell the DVD's as a sort of fund raiser for the ballet school. Anyone who has a daughter in dance school is familiar with this stuff.

I want to rip the video off these DVD's (plain ol' NTSC interlaced 4:3 SD) and convert them to square pixel 59.94 progressive H.264 using QTGMC (and AI's dvhelper scripts) like in that other thread.



Last year, I already ripped some of these DVD's using Handbrake using these settings apart from standard:

container = mp4

Picture tab
cropping = auto matic

Filters tab
deinterlace = slower

Video tab
quality = 18
constant framerate (same as src)
h.264 profile = high

By doing this, did I inadvertently chop out half of the interlaced fields?

If so, and I re-rip, what Handbrake settings do I need to get all the interlaced fields so that I can later use QTGMC to convert to 59.94 progressive files?


Or does Avisynth have a better script for DVD ripping than Handbrake?


Edit: also trying to make sense of this thread:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/363675-How-do-you-make-a-NTSC-interlaced-DVD-video-progressive

[newpball]

It's easy!

For a DVD, load the VOBs in DGIndex , save the project (and demux the video), create a Avisynth script using QTGMC, use at least slow mode. And it's done. Resize to whatever you prefer but always after deinterlacing.

[poisondeathray]

If so, and I re-rip, what Handbrake settings do I need to get all the interlaced fields so that I can later use QTGMC to convert to 59.94 progressive files?

You can't really "rip" with handbrake by definition . "Rip" means removing the copy protection and transfer a 1:1 digital copy to the HDD. Handbrake can't do that - it can only re-encode

If you set it up properly, handbrake can decode and re-encode losslessly with h264, but the filesize will be much larger, and it will take much longer than if you used an actual "ripping" software like anydvd, dvd fab, makemkv, dvd decrypter, dvd shrink (with no compression). The ripping software will leave it as the original MPEG2 (that's what "ripping a DVD" means) . And you can't use avisynth with handbrake (or with very great difficulty and a few extra steps) . In short, handbrake is the wrong tool for this if you want to use QTGMC.

[_Al_]

For home made DVD's you just want to re-encode, you do not need any ripping tool, that removes encryption. But that tool needs be able to load a DVD title and use QTGMC while deinterlacing if that is what you want. DVD can have more titles, but home made DVD's of yours perhaps have only one title.

I have here a program that does exactly that. It was made for this purpose. You drop one of DVD title's VOB, choose audio you want to keep (if there is more) and it makes mp4.
Not sure if you are aware that you can get mpg out of your DVD title without any re-compression.
Are you sure you need to re-encode?

[_Al_]

Mpeg to MP4.zip
Drop one of DVD VOB that is a part of your title you want to encode to convert the whole title to MP4.

Read info.txt
This is for mpeg files (mpeg, m2t, m2v, mpeg, mpv, mp2, VOB) or home DVD's only (joins particular title VOB's - DGindex does) , it handles only PCM, mpeg1 layerII and AC3 audio, no inverse telecine, if interlace is detected it deinterlaces with QTGMC to double frame rate.
In case of more audio tracks you can select audio you want, where before selecting you actually can hear the track, it uses ffplay to play video and particular audio track, because in DVD case it could be misleading, particularly with home made DVD's

[LouGee]

handbrake is the wrong tool for this if you want to use QTGMC.

I've come to this same conclusion, I agree.

What I did tryout tonite was XviD4PSP to copy the DVD stream to ... yes... a huge (almost) lossless DV-avi file. I figure this may be the best to use with QTGMC to do the interlacing I want. (I've already done) https://www.videohelp.com/software/XviD4PSP

But on my first try w Xvid4PSP, the video was playing way fast on Win Media Player while the audio played at correct speed... whereas on VLC the video speed was fine, but the audio was messed up. How does DGMPGDec compare to Xvid4PSP?

[hello_hello]

By doing this, did I inadvertently chop out half of the interlaced fields?

Kind of. Instead of de-interlacing to 60fps progressive you de-interlaced to 30fps progressive, so motion won't be as smooth.

If so, and I re-rip, what Handbrake settings do I need to get all the interlaced fields so that I can later use QTGMC to convert to 59.94 progressive files?

I think Handbrake's slower de-interlacer uses Yadif de-interlacing. If you select "bob" as the de-interlacing method you should get "double frame rate" de-interlacing, once again courtesy of the Yadif de-interlacer (maybe as long as frame rate settings don't get in the way). I think setting constant frame rate and "same as source" (or 60fps) for the output should ensure constant 60fps progressive for an NTSC interlaced source.

Or does Avisynth have a better script for DVD ripping than Handbrake?

Most Avisynth based GUI's default to using Yadif as the de-interlacer. For anything better, you really need to use QTGMC, which of course means using an Avisynth based GUI, and one that lets you modify scripts manually. I think Hybrid comes with QTGMC but I'm not overly familiar with it myself. For most GUI's you'd need to download QTGMC and the required plugins and get it working yourself, or checkout the basic instructions towards the end of this post and the zip file attached.

[LouGee]

For anything better, you really need to use QTGMC

Yep, that's what I intend to do. But first I want to get the DVD stream over to a big almost-lossless DV-avi file before QTGMC. I'm trying Xvid4PSP, but I'm running into the exact same problem as this thread: https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/352636-Xvid4PSP-synchronization-problem which says:

The problem is it doesn't matter the settings I put in "Video Encoding" the encoded files passes the video in fast motion and the audio goes normal. ... (I'm not doing subtitles) .... but the video since the beginning goes to fast, like if I were fast forwarding it.

However, that thread was closed because he was trying to copy a commercial movie DVD, this is not that. But what can I do to prevent this problem of the dv-avi file having video going fast, but the audio going normal?

I also installed MediaInfo like that thread suggests. Great little program! Any special things I should be looking for in the original DVD or the dv-avi I made from it?

[manono]

Any special things I should be looking for in the original DVD or the dv-avi I made from it?

You could post the script XviD4PSP used. I found it sometimes has a nasty habit of changing the script after I edit it. In addition, a text screen from MediaInfo for the DV AVI and maybe a short 10-second sample of the video might be useful.

But first I want to get the DVD stream over to a big almost-lossless DV-avi file before QTGMC.

Why? The usual procedure when working with DVDs is to make a D2V project file using DGIndex followed by creating a script using the DGDecode.dll and MPEG2Source to open the video. This is well explained in the docs included in the DGMPGDec package. Then to that basic script you can add QTGMC. You can do a better job yourself than any all-in-one program. A sample script might go something like:

MPEG2Source("BalletRecitalVideo.d2v")
QTGMC(Preset="Fast")

With the needed DLLs and functions in your AviSynth plugins folder or added as 'LoadPlugIn' lines in the script, you should be good to go.

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/QTGMC

[hello_hello]

I agree with manono.
Very occasionally I output to a lossless file when I'm using QTGMC but that's because it's slow, and sometimes I'm not certain about the filtering I want to follow it. That way I can run encodes on the lossless file using different filtering without it running at QTGMC slow speed each time, but mostly I just encode with x264, no lossless intermediate file required. DVD to lossless then encoding with QTGMC seems even less necessary. Fairly pointless, really.

[LouGee]

Alright, lets reboot this... forget everything I wrote above.

1. First let's get the VOB off of the DVD so that we can work with it on the hdd. For this I reload my old DVDdecryptor and used IFO mode with file splitting = none. And got 1 big .vob file. This DVD has no protection whatsoever, so all I'm using it for is to copyover to hdd.

Is DVDdecrypter still good enough for this? Am I losing anything in quality? Might something newer like MakeMKV be any better for what I'm doing?



2. Converting that interlaced .vob file to a 59.94 progressive MP4 (h.264) with square pixels and using QTGMC. It looks like once again, AI has me covered. I guess this is what "MPEG to resized MP4.bat" is for? Looking at the file, it converts mine to 640x480? And by double fps means 59.94?

[_Al_]

you do not need to decrypt anything, it is home video, there should be no audio delay on thet DVD as well, pgcdemux, VOB2mpeg, DVDshrink would get you one long mpeg out of your DVD, ..... BUT,

that batch I posted somewhere above accepts directly your VOB. The way I did it, you drop one of your title's VOB and it uses VOB's that are part of that title. You can drop it directly out of your disc, copying to hardrive is not needed (only if you had some problem), for example there is title 01, that you want to encode:
VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS_01_2.VOB
VTS_01_3.VOB
then you just drop
VTS_01_1.VOB
and then you select audio track number (as you would see choices on screen then), if there is more, type go and you get mp4

remember, it is batch script, no special characters in paths, no parentheses for example, just alphabetical characters, numbers, underscore, spaces and some more, but use strictly better only mentioned above ...

if you want the best progressive, you need QTGMC and x264, if decrypter uses x264 (i do not know) and you can set it in optimal way (crf, decent number), then yes , even dvd decrypter would be fine, but i cannot say ...

[LouGee]

As always, thanks again. DVDdecrypter is essentially the same thing as VOB2mpeg. I even tested it and they both gave the exact same vob file (checked in MediaInfo... same size, codecs, etc) The vob is just an mpeg ver 2. (mediainfo says mpeg-ps)

I want to use these DVD's as little as possible. They're very fragile, and this is why I'm backing them up. I really prefer to just put them in for the 8-10mins that it takes to extract the vob/mpeg, then put it away. And work from the mpeg/vob on the hdd.

I'm processing a 4.4Gb vob/mpeg file right now w "MPEG to resized MP4.bat" but it's going to take 10hrs. I'll report back when its done

[_Al_]

If you have those mpg on HDD, then you can run more instances at the same time, like 2 or 3 and CPU would be 100% even with QTGMC ... so it runs faster then basically. In this case, you can copy that "MPEG to mp4" folder, paste it to other hardisk if you have more hardisks so it would helped your hardisk, its needle to not go too crazy searching and writing files ...

or you can just wait for avisynth script to be generated (after audio is rendered) , and then cancel cmd window, look inside temp folder, that script is there, and just use that script for testing video settings, adding for example
trim(0,600)
or something at the end or whatever and test that script, encode that avs just to know what you are going to get, no sense to wait hours for result ...

[LouGee]

OK a little over 10 hrs later, here's part of the mediainfo.txt of the original:

General
Complete name : C:\path\jd3.VOB
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 3.89 GiB
Duration : 1h 26mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 6 425 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Custom
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Format settings, picture structure : Frame
Duration : 1h 26mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 041 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 8 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.583
Time code of first frame : 00:00:00:00
Time code source : Group of pictures header
Stream size : 3.65 GiB (94%)

And here's about up to the same with the generated MP4:

General
Complete name : C:\path\mpeg2mp4\OUTPUT\jd3.mp4
Format : MPEG-4
Format profile : Base Media
Codec ID : isom
File size : 1.64 GiB
Duration : 1h 26mn
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 2 705 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2015-06-01 22:03:08
Tagged date : UTC 2015-06-01 22:03:08

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L3.2
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 6 frames
Codec ID : avc1
Codec ID/Info : Advanced Video Coding
Duration : 1h 26mn
Bit rate : 2 442 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 8 719 Kbps
Width : 854 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 59.940 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.099
Stream size : 1.48 GiB (90%)
Writing library : x264 core 138 r2358 9e941d1



The mp4 looks good! The size went from 720x480 to 854x480
(Something about that 16:9 doesn't seem right - I'm looking into it - I thought this old DVD was 4:3 SD)

[manono]

I thought this old DVD was 4:3 SD)

The VOBs are definitely 16:9:

Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 29.970 fps 

But, since most DVD players get the DAR from the DVD IFOs and not from the VOBs, I suppose there's a chance it really plays as 4:3. A slim chance. PGCEdit can tell you. How does the MP4 look at 854x480? 'Normal'? If it's the wrong aspect ratio you should be able to tell pretty easily. People will look noticeably 'fat'.

[_Al_]

in that batch, mediainfo reads aspect ratio, so as you posted original with 16:9, that you going to get in output and with 16:9 resize in this case NTSC 16:9 I put their 854x480 (again you can change that resolution),

everything is possible, something what manono says, I remember Pinnacle could produce something similar like this, anyway, what DVD authoring did you use? If your video is really 4:3.

[LouGee]

what DVD authoring did you use?

These recital DVD's are made by little independent video companies, like the ones that do weddings. Most of these DVDs are showing as 720x480 4:3. That's the only one showing as a 16:9. There's one showing 704x442 AR = 1.445 and another as 352x474 AR = 4:3 and yet another showing 720x426 AR= 2.003. These guys are all over the place!

I see the resizing code in the BAT file starts around line 427.. what to do about these oddball sizes? (to get properly sized w square pixels)

[LMotlow]

OK a little over 10 hrs later, here's part of the mediainfo.txt of the original:
.........
.........
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
........
Duration : 1h 26mn
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 6 041 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 8 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
........

And here's about up to the same with the generated MP4:

..........
Duration : 1h 26mn
Bit rate : 2 442 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 8 719 Kbps
Width : 854 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
........
........
The mp4 looks good!

OMG!

The size went from 720x480 to 854x480
(Something about that 16:9 doesn't seem right - I'm looking into it - I thought this old DVD was 4:3 SD)

Why waste your time? I thought you said it "looks good!". If cutting the bitrate by 65% for a lossy re-encoded final frame size bigger than the one you started with, and if that gutting made it "look good", maybe if you resize even more to 1280x720 and lower the bitrate to 612 kbps, you might be able to say it "looks good!!" with two exclamation marks.

Where's newpball when you expect it?

[newpball]

Where's newpball when you expect it?

Haha!

[LouGee]

Well, in this case, the expression "looks good" means "at least it worked". Maybe it's a regional thing Yea, I'm going to figure out the bitrate too.

newpball, you were the first to mention DGindex, and I tried it right away but.... well... is the IFO mode + "none" that's done in dvdvdecrypter/vob2mpeg doing the same thing as copying over and demuxing the vob's (in DGindex) as you said in your earlier post?


Stepping back, the goals within my 2 threads here in Videohelp remain about the same:
1. get this content off of physical media and into files
2. get the content out of the interlaced world and into progressive
(you would think that adobes tools would be as good as some of these free tools, but they're not)

I think Hybrid comes with QTGMC but I'm not overly familiar with it myself.

Yes it does.... downloaded and digging through it also.

[LMotlow]

Well, Okay. Understand, it's your video and people can do whatever they want with their stuff. But deinterlacing, resizing, and re-encoding do have a quality cost, the extent depending on how it's done -- and on how it's played. Most media players deinterlace on the fly, much the same way your TV does. Some tv's do it better, some ain't so hot. PC monitors don't dienterlace. Eventually you'll get a movie-based source that's telecined, not interlaced, and requires a good inverse telecine gizmo that does it properly (e.g, TIVTC), in which case the frame rate would usually be 23.976 fps.

I don't know why people don't get that a good media player deinterlaces\de-telecines without all that work. MC-BE, MC-HC, Media Player Classic, many others, all of them can do that and leave the source untouched. VLC player is pretty decent with standard def. Doesn't deinterlace by default, but you can set it to any of several choices in its options menu. VLC lets you specify "yadif 2X" for double frame rate if that's what you want.

It's up to you, of course. You do need a bitrate that's more than the low bitrate used for half-sized MPEG1, VCD, or the typical low PQ YouTube clip. If what you want is an original quality backup of the source, why not just save an unaltered copy to a hard drive? Whatever. I just don't see the point of exercises like this unless the source is garbage to begin with, but to each his own.

[_Al_]

I see the resizing code in the BAT file starts around line 427.. what to do about these oddball sizes? (to get properly sized w square pixels)

Try this batch, download it and RENAME its extension to BAT. I could not upload file with BAT extension, so i gave it txt extension for upload.

So that batch would ask you for output resolution, so no matter what goes in, it will resize to that resolution. If upscaling it will use Lanczos resize , if down-scaling it will use Spline resize. Put that batch in that "MPEG to MP4" folder.

Make sure that width and height are even numbers.

[LouGee]

LMotlow - good points, but perhaps a great deinterlacer like QTGMC given lots of processing time, can render a progressive video thats just as good if not better than a real-time deinterlacer in a media player?

newpball or anyone - is using DVDdecrypter (on an unencrypted DVD - essentially homemade interlaced SD video - no telecined movies) using IFO mode with "none" file splitting to render a vob/mpeg to my hdd giving me an exact copy of whats on the DVD?


AI - much appreciated! Already installed and I'll give this a try later today.
( I'm still trying to understand why some - but not all - of these DVD's came in resolutions and ARs other than 720x480 4:3)

[_Al_]

I'm still trying to understand why some - but not all - of these DVD's came in resolutions and ARs other than 720x480 4:3

You say that you did not author those DVD's so you do not know what software did that. As I said, in the past I encountered VOB or mpeg that were coming from DVD doing this, it was authored in Pinnacle. You can just input width and height you want and it will resize to that.

But,
as they tell you, just get those mpeg's out of it and store it, interlace, it is ok. Those BAT files we are using to encode MP4 with double frame rate , progressive, keyframe 60 and more generous bitrate, -- tune film or grain, the reason was that upon loading it into HD project in NLE, upscale of that interlace was not acceptable. NLE screws up interlace resize. And knowing it would be upscaled in that NLE I even did not resized at all, just using anamorphic aspect ratio (MPEG to anamorphic MP4.BAT). Due to volume and numbers of those DVD's lossless would be not acceptable.

So you just pull those mpg's out of DVD and be happy. For home DVD's I'd do the same.

[ConverterCrazy]

Mpeg to MP4.zip
Drop one of DVD VOB that is a part of your title you want to encode to convert the whole title to MP4.

Read info.txt
This is for mpeg files (mpeg, m2t, m2v, mpeg, mpv, mp2, VOB) or home DVD's only (joins particular title VOB's - DGindex does) , it handles only PCM, mpeg1 layerII and AC3 audio, no inverse telecine, if interlace is detected it deinterlaces with QTGMC to double frame rate.
In case of more audio tracks you can select audio you want, where before selecting you actually can hear the track, it uses ffplay to play video and particular audio track, because in DVD case it could be misleading, particularly with home made DVD's

I ran the batch file and it took its time, displayed progress, then declared "DONE", but nothing in output!

What went wrong?

Thanks

P.S.
Batch file generated AviSynth Script

Import("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\QTGMC-3.32.avsi")                             
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\mvtools2.dll")                                       
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")                     
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\RepairSSE2.dll")                          
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\mt_masktools-25.dll")                     
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\nnedi3.dll")                              
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\dfttest.dll")                             
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\EEDI2.dll")                               
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\FFT3DFilter.dll")                         
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\nnedi.dll")                               
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\nnedi2.dll")                              
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\SSE2Tools.dll")                           
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\VerticalCleanerSSE2.dll")                 
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\AddGrainC.dll")                           
Load_Stdcall_plugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\QTGMC 32-bit Plugins\Avisynth 32-bit Plugins\yadif.dll")                      
LoadPlugin("C:\MPEG to mp4\tools\dgindex\DGDecode.dll")                                         
MPEG2Source("C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resized MP4\phool\phool.d2v")                                         
Assume()                                                
QTGMC(Preset="slow")                                              
Spline36Resize(640,480)

This is the screen output after inserting a Pause in batch file

Taking care of VOB

indexing video to get MyPhool.d2v

readings for debug:
bat_folder_name=Diag_MPEG to resized MP4
temp_folder=C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resized MP4\MyPhool
destination_folder=C:\MPEG to mp4\OUTPUT
VTS1=D:\Dhool\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
VTS2=D:\Dhool\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_2.VOB
switch=VOB
vob=VOB
track_ID=80

DgIndex:
0
1
3
.
.
98

encoding audio to MyPhool.m4a
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  Duration: 02:33:51.01, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 448 kb/s
    Stream #0:0: Audio: ac3, 48000 Hz, 5.1(side), fltp, 448 kb/s
Output #0, wav, to 'pipe:':
  Metadata:
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    Stream #0:0: Audio: pcm_s16le ([1][0][0][0] / 0x0001), 48000 Hz, 5.1(side),
s16, 4608 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0:0 -> #0:0 (ac3 -> pcm_s16le)
Press [q] to stop, [?] for help
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video:0kB audio:5192442kB subtitle:0 global headers:0kB muxing overhead 0.000002
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The system cannot find the file specified.

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figuring out resize

NTSC video
720x480  4:3
video will be resized after deinterlacing to 640x480

creating avisynth script: C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resized MP4\MyPhool\M
yPhool.avs

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encoding of H.264 started at: 2017-03-04  23:59:49.93

x264 encoder
encoding video: C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resized MP4\MyPhool\MyPhool.264


command line, short version:
 --crf=17 --aq-strength 1.5 --tune film --ref 6 --vbv-bufsize 20000 --vbv-maxrat
e 18000

avs [error]: Script error: there is no function named "Assume"
(C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resized MP4\MyPhool\MyPhool.avs, line 18)
x264 [error]: could not open input file `C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resize
d MP4\MyPhool\MyPhool.avs'

end of encoding video: 2017-03-04  23:59:57.01

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muxing video + audio: C:\MPEG to mp4\OUTPUT\MyPhool.mp4

audio=yes
Cannot find H264 start code
Error importing C:\MPEG to mp4\temp\Diag_MPEG to resized MP4\MyPhool\MyPhool.264
: BitStream Not Compliant

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Press any key to continue . . . 

[_Al_]

Copy/paste that cmd prompt window

right click it, choose select all and then using Ctrl+V , you paste it. If it is not going to work , do it couple of times, it will.

Also, you can choose to not delete temp folder by selecting delete_temp_folder :no in settings.BAT and explore avisynth script, if it works etc. , but if there was error that cmd prompt text would tell something

[ConverterCrazy]

Thanks.

I have posted both in the previous post.
One error, I can think of: Assume() must be the last line in the script

[_Al_]

Mediainfo did not find field order, it looks for "Top field first", "bottom field first" or "Progressive". It did not find any of those.

What does mediainfo say if you give it that VOB?

[ConverterCrazy]

Thanks for reply.

Here it is

General
Complete name                            : D:\Dhool\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
Format                                   : MPEG-PS
File size                                : 1 024 MiB
Duration                                 : 34mn 54s
Overall bit rate                         : 4 102 Kbps

Video
ID                                       : 224 (0xE0)
Format                                   : MPEG Video
Format version                           : Version 2
Format profile                           : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP                    : Yes
Format settings, Matrix                  : Custom
Format settings, GOP                     : Variable
Duration                                 : 34mn 54s
Bit rate                                 : 3 380 Kbps
Width                                    : 720 pixels
Height                                   : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio                     : 4:3
Frame rate                               : 29.970 fps
Standard                                 : NTSC
Color space                              : YUV
Chroma subsampling                       : 4:2:0
Bit depth                                : 8 bits
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)                       : 0.326
Stream size                              : 844 MiB (82%)

Audio #1
ID                                       : 189 (0xBD)-128 (0x80)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Muxing mode                              : DVD-Video
Duration                                 : 34mn 53s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 448 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 6 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -49ms
Stream size                              : 112 MiB (11%)

Audio #2
ID                                       : 189 (0xBD)-129 (0x81)
Format                                   : AC-3
Format/Info                              : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension                           : CM (complete main)
Format settings, Endianness              : Big
Muxing mode                              : DVD-Video
Duration                                 : 34mn 53s
Bit rate mode                            : Constant
Bit rate                                 : 192 Kbps
Channel(s)                               : 2 channels
Channel positions                        : Front: L R
Sampling rate                            : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode                         : Lossy
Delay relative to video                  : -49ms
Stream size                              : 47.9 MiB (5%)

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