XviD

[sonic_emperor]

Hey people,it's me again
another question,who uses "XviD",why arent u using DivX,which program do you use?????

[SKD_Tech]

DVX

[Enchanter]

Re: XviD

Originally posted by sonic_emperor
another question,who uses "XviD",why arent u using DivX,which program do you use?????

I do.

Because I like its results better than DivX.

Avisynth and Virtualdub.

[The Maynard]

I've been using XVid to convert the video of Dragon's Lair and it looks alot better than Divx. The only problem I have with XVid is that the codec does not deinterlace the video so I have to use a filter in VirtualDub to do this. So I use DVD2AVI to save it as an UNCOMPRESSED AVI. Once it's an AVI I can use VirtualDub to convert it to XVid and apply the deinterlacing filter. When I do it this way and compare it to the same clip done in Divx it looks SO MUCH BETTER! It actually looks perfect. Divx has a slight greenish tint to it and has more compression blocks.
The only problem I have is that I would love to do this with full length movies but uncompressed video is REALLY large in size. Almost 1GB for 1 minute! How can I get VirtualDub to do the frameserving so I can access the VOB files directly and apply the filters I need? I installed the handler but FRAMESERVING is still greyed out. What do I do?

[UncasMS]

Divx has a slight greenish tint to it and has more compression blocks.

sorry, but i cannot agree.

some folks are very well able to create perfect divx files.

just because yours dont look good doesnt mean divx is to blame

[The Maynard]

I blame everything. Actually I never even noticed this tint until I compared it to the XVid. The Divx copy still looks very good, don't get me wrong. But on the Dragon's Lair animation Xvid really looks better, for me at least.

[The Maynard]

Is there any way for VirtualDub to read VOBs?

[UncasMS]

dont get me wrong, the maynard


enchanter has more than once said that animes looked better with xvid.

i never converted animes, but on full length testruns as well as single vob transcodings i didnt see improvements over divx5 using numerous xvid releases and an aweful lot of different settings.

i replied because the above statements sound like xvid will in any case look way better than divx5.

this is something i cannot confirm.

[UncasMS]

Is there any way for VirtualDub to read VOBs?

what exactly do you mean/intend?

vd_MOD might be what you're looking for

[The Maynard]

No problem, I wasn't taking your post the wrong way. What I want to do is try my hand at encoding a movie into XVid. The problem is that most of the movies are interlaced and I can't get the XVid codec to deinterlace it for me. VD has a deinterlacing filter that works very well. The only problem is that, in order to get an unaltered and perfect looking avi I have to save it as an uncompressed file which is way to large. Once this is done then I can open it in VD and apply the filters and encode it to XVid. This way it doesn't get compressed twice.
Is there a way to get VD to access the VOB files and do the conversion like DVD2AVI does? This would be ideal because DVD2AVI does not have any of these filters that I need so VD would be perfect for this.

[UncasMS]

well, yes of course

the way most of use use vd for transcoding is this:

-create a project file with dvd2avi

-load this d2f project file into vd or maybe even simpler a tool like gordianknot or DVX.

- in dvx for example make all your settings: bitrate, resizer and of course filters (be it noise or de-interlacers) and then have this tool create your avi (by running vd).

in case you want to read a more detailed guide on either gordianknot or dvx, click on any of my signature pics.

[The Maynard]

I tried making a project file with DVD2AVI before but I can't get VD to open it. Frameserving is greyed out, even after installing the handler. I'll try DVX.

[The Maynard]

OK. I tried DVDx and I hate that thing! I found VDubMod and that works perfectly. Thanks for the heads up. This does exactly what I wanted to do without having to save an uncomressed video file and take up space.