Avisynth - Premiere Plugin problem

[aguillon]

Hi guys

To rip DVDs to VCDs, I decided to mix and match my favourite programs

1- FlaskMpeg for parsing IFO and VOBs
2- VirtualDub for preprocessing the video, resizing and applying subs the way I like
3- TMPGEnc for coding to MPEG, for its speed and quality.

I have found a way that works perfectly (well, almost).

I use the Avisynth Premiere plugin which I relocate to FlaskMpeg's directory.
I then frameserve from Flask 0.594 to VirtualDub 1.4.10 using the Avisynth Premiere plugin v 0.28 beta 37
After reprocessing in VDub, I again frameserve the result to TMPGEnc 2.56.

Might sound complicated, but once you get the hang of it it s real easy.

This method gives me better results and more control than using say Flastk + Panasonic Encoder, plus it s much faster.

Problem, however: The AVISynth Premiere plugin is not picking up the length of the movie. No matter how long it is, it always passes the argument Endframe as 300,000, which is roughly 3.5 hours. So my encoding always adds a padding of black screen at the end of my movie.

Question: is there a way to pass an argument to the plugin indicating the exact number of frames? Any step I am missing?

Any contribution welcome.

Cheers

Arnaud

[Truman]

You may repeat the framerange in the Avisynth script.

IPCSource("c:\filename.avi").Trim(0,last frame)