Weird Problems! Please Please Help!

[Nealhon]

I have spent days trying to configure all the settings and such to look good. Here is the story. I did all the steps right and made a .avi file using Nandub and it looked pretty good but my friend did a movie where the quality was much better. So he sent me a .vcf of all his settings he used. Well when I hit F7 to save the .avi a error screen popped up and had a these buttons. Save..., Save, Ok, Help. It prompted me to click save then ok, and it would exit the program. So I opened Nandub again and loaded the settings that I had originally done and I loaded the movie. Well now the video looks a whole lot worse and I have no idea what to do. One more thing. Before it gave me that error screen if I hit Play in Nandub it had 2 boxes that it played the movie in, now it only plays it in the bottom one and I cannot see it. Can anyone Please help me out? I was sooooo close to being done and now I have these problems

Thanks
Nealhon

[mrbungle]

Hi would you mind posting the content of your friends .vcf settings file here. Maybe it helps to find the problem and maybe its better quality than mine :)

[Nealhon]

I got it working now. Someone told me to get the new Divx Codec and that seemed to do the trick. Sorry I cannot post the .vcf settings (the guy that has them told me not to post them) sorry.

[praying mantis]

why on earth would your friend not want you to post them?

[mrbungle]

i mean of course, if you shoot out good quality with your settings, you are proud of it and you dont want everybody to have anybody to present his results of your hard work. but i for myself get good quality and always try to improve them. if i once have quality perfected i will write a website about how i did it and on what details of a movie you have to look to change your settings and stuff. cause i searched a lot for the right way to rip a dvd and create a good divx. and other ppl should not search so much thru the web like me or consulting other persons using nandub.
so if you really get so good quality it would be nice to take a look on your settings and compare it with mine to see if i could change something on mine to get it better or yours to get your results better. but you dont have to, its your choice.

[Pater Noster]

Hehehe....

He got it from me :)

Well, the thing is I spend much time to test my settings and I don't want that someone can get my settings from me that easily. He has to figure it out for himself. But posting it here, I don't mind, because I know there are people who are I know a lot better of understanding every detailed setting that there is in Nandub.

Well, here goes, my latest settings that I did an encode with:

VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,500,1,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.audio2.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(3);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDivX(844,10);
VirtualDub.video.SetQualityControl(2,15,10,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetMotionDetection(8,10,300,300);
VirtualDub.video.SetCrispness(30,0);
VirtualDub.video.SpaceKF(24);
VirtualDub.video.InternalSCD(100);
VirtualDub.video.SetMinKBPS(300);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveFile("G:\\DVD\\new\\vobs\\dbz\\215.stats");
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveMcFactor(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveCompression(0,3);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveFilter(270,3000);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveCredits(28412,150);
VirtualDub.video.SetLumaCorrectionAmp(1,10,30);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveRedist(0);
// VirtualDub.video.CalcCurveCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsMain(2,8);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsA(300,3,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsB(300,4,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsC(300,5,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsD(300,6,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsE(300,7,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelK(4,31);
VirtualDub.video.SetBitsReservoir(5,35,30,85,45,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetLowBrCorrection(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.NoAVIOutput(0);
VirtualDub.video.GenStats("",0);
VirtualDub.video.SetEncodingControl("");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("smart smoother (1.1)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[0].Config(3, 25, 0);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("smart resize (1.0)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[1].SetClipping(12,8,8,3);
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[1].Config(512,384,0,4,0,0,0x000000,"0 1 1 4 320 240 100 0 0 0 0 4 4 2 2");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Add("logo (1.3 beta 4)");
VirtualDub.video.filters.instance[2].Config(8, 0, 200, 1, 0, 0, 0, 150, "G:\\My Documents\\logo.bmp", 0, 210, 0, 0, 20, 450, 20);
VirtualDub.subset.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.AddFrame(64633,28479);
VirtualDub.brc.Set( 0, 141 );
VirtualDub.brc.Set( 1, 1 );
VirtualDub.brc.Set( 2, 128 );
VirtualDub.brc.Set( 3, 0 );
VirtualDub.brc.Set( 4, 0 );


Any suggestions are of course very welcome! I always try to improve the quality ;)

[Commonboy]

Interesting stuff. But when you people talk about "good quality", what exactly do you mean? Is a movie considered "good quality" if it encodes perfectly to the size you want. Do you people have Superman eyes that can tell the difference between an encoded movie from the original just by looking at the picture, being if you can't tell the difference it's considered "good quality"?

Plz enlighten me :)