XviD Encoding Alternates

[fight2win]

well, xvid encoding with virtualdub crashes on me, so can anyone pls tell me other ways of dvd to xvid encoding please? :thanks:

[celtic_druid]

DVD to divx? You mean after encoding you are using divxmux to mux to the divx media format?

For XviD encoding you have VfW as used by VDub.
xvidencraw, a simple command line encoder.
mencoder.
ffmpeg.

That is about it. Of course if it isn't XviD VfW causing the crash, there are other encoders that make use of XviD VfW that you could use.

[Doom9]

however, as it is you can only fully harness the power of XviD using the VfW.. mencoder, ffmpeg and encraw are feature limited, and at least mencoder has other issues (search for xvid and megui and you'll find)

[celtic_druid]

XviD works ok here with mencoder. What features does the VfW have that mencoder doesn't?

[fight2win]

sorry guys, i meant dvd to xvid, is staxrip good? should i try vdubmod in place of vdub?

[Doom9]

all the additional zone options, custom quantizer matrices, everything you find in the VfW but not in MeGUI. It works for me too, but try large files (as I said, a search will yield the problems.. none of them which I found since I only did test encodes).

[sysKin]

Better yet, can you describe the crash, your system, and perhaps paste the vdub's crash report if you get one.

Oh and if crash is random, tell us if your system is overclocked.

[fight2win]

DVD , 16:9 NTSC R1
AVS Script resized to 704X384
FieldDeinterlace(full=false)

Decomb 5.2.2

VirtualDub Latest Release

Avisynth 2.5.6a

First pass ran fine, but 2nd pass crashed!
wixpsp2, 512 mb ram, no overclocking, 2.4 ghz,

[fight2win]

should i disable trellis (according to crusty's faq)?

[celtic_druid]

Custom quantizer matrices are supported.

So it is basically just the extra zones options, such as cartoon mode that can only be enabled for the whole encode.

I did some encodes recently. Over 1.5 hour input, over 1GB output. Everything went fine. That would have been before XviD 1.2-Dev though.

[sysKin]

should i disable trellis (according to crusty's faq)?

There are currentky no known XviD crashers, and it's been this way for a long time. So no, no FAQ will cover that.

Of course from only this, we can't know if it's xvid or avisynth or something else that crashed.

[bond]

just for completeness: ffdshow also can encode with xvid in vfw

[weaver4]

Try AutoGK or avi.net?

[mod]

Could you also post the XviD build you're using?

[fight2win]

13/12/2005 celtic druid's build, also pls tell me how to use the eqm .xcm custom matrix file in xvid encoding in vdub,vdubmod?

[celtic_druid]

Pretty sure that the last build I did was on the 10th. It was a 1.2 dev build to.

[Sharktooth]

Yes, it's the 20051210... the file date on the server may be different though coz i updated it 3 days after Celtic Druid released the files.