gaspah
28th August 2006, 05:58
Hiya I’m Jeremy, and I do a lot of capture/encoding of video (I’d estimate 2000+ avi encodes over a bit over a year, mostly 22min). Anyways I’ve gotten to a point where when I encode, I like to grab a frame or two from somewhere in the film and stick it to the front so that Windows displays the thumbnail, as this is especially useful to identify episodes of a large series (like in this case The Simsons).
Now obviously I prefer to do this before encoding, but if I have to (ie forgot to do it in the first place) I’ll re-encode those few frames to a separate file, open it then append the original avi and save it direct stream. I do it this way as copying it internally involves either re-encoding the whole lot and what’s wrong with that I’m not even gonna begin to list. Or direct stream which relies on keyframes plus all subsequent delta frames, and keyframes seldom are the ‘money shot’ I’m looking for. Blah blah blah I promise I’m gonna shut up soon.
Now the whole point of this is, I miss episodes occasionally despite frikkin having a recording scheduler do it all for me. So if it’s a new episode, I want to be able to download it then do the thumbnail thing so it fits into my well established archive protocol. So…
What I need is a tool to help me re-encode my little thumbnails in the correct data format.
Now I’m not 100% sure if ‘data format’ strictly refers to codec, or if it’s settings within the codec itself (I don’t mean settings within the software ie framerate resolution to me that’s just obvious), I know it’s not the quantizer, but not sure any further than that.
At the present moment I’m guessing the codec using the hit-n-miss method, which is trying even for files I may have encoded a while ago, trying to remember if I used the normal xvid or the yv12 xvid. I don’t need a myriad of codecs and versions to bewilder my fragile little mind.
Gosh-dang I’m glad that’s over.
:thanks: :thanks:
Now obviously I prefer to do this before encoding, but if I have to (ie forgot to do it in the first place) I’ll re-encode those few frames to a separate file, open it then append the original avi and save it direct stream. I do it this way as copying it internally involves either re-encoding the whole lot and what’s wrong with that I’m not even gonna begin to list. Or direct stream which relies on keyframes plus all subsequent delta frames, and keyframes seldom are the ‘money shot’ I’m looking for. Blah blah blah I promise I’m gonna shut up soon.
Now the whole point of this is, I miss episodes occasionally despite frikkin having a recording scheduler do it all for me. So if it’s a new episode, I want to be able to download it then do the thumbnail thing so it fits into my well established archive protocol. So…
What I need is a tool to help me re-encode my little thumbnails in the correct data format.
Now I’m not 100% sure if ‘data format’ strictly refers to codec, or if it’s settings within the codec itself (I don’t mean settings within the software ie framerate resolution to me that’s just obvious), I know it’s not the quantizer, but not sure any further than that.
At the present moment I’m guessing the codec using the hit-n-miss method, which is trying even for files I may have encoded a while ago, trying to remember if I used the normal xvid or the yv12 xvid. I don’t need a myriad of codecs and versions to bewilder my fragile little mind.
Gosh-dang I’m glad that’s over.
:thanks: :thanks: