Best way to frameserve for CCE?

[N3m1515]

I know of AVISynth, but is there another way.

I heard of a VFAPI convertor and a VFAPI wrapper, does anyone know if they are good ways and whether they give better results?

Thanks

[leopardone]

I'm using:

DVD2AVI 1.76 = creation of project file
VFAPI = transform DVD2AVI project into a "false" .avi file
CCE = encoding of this file ;)





ps: PM sent ;)

[Letricheur]

The VFAPI wrapper is needed to frameserve to CCE 2.62 and 2.64. You can wrap TMPGEnc *.tpr and VirtualDub *.vdr files as well as DVD2AVI *.d2v and avisynth *.avs files. However, this process is much slower than loading an avisynth file directly into CCE 2.5; CCE 2.62 and 2.64 cannot do this. So, if you do not have CCE 2.5 but want to take advantage of the CCE speed and supposed quality superiority over TMPGEnc then use the VFAPI wrapper. There are very good guides for this method on this site. As for quality, they are the ultimately the same as direct *.avs encoding, given that CCE does the actual encoding, but slower.

[N3m1515]

That's great.

Thanks buddy:D

P.S Does the actual encoding take any longer, or just the whole process because of using the 'wrapper'?

[Letricheur]

The encoding is slower. CCE shows you speed of encoding by presenting it as a multiple of realtime (RT). For example, if it shows 0.5 RT, then a 2 hour movie will take about 4 hours to encode. I get about 0.48 RT on my computer (P3, 650 MHz, 512 Mb) using *.avs files in CCE 2.5 but only about 0.3 RT if I wrap the *.d2v in VFAPI. I believe the slower speed is partly because VFAPI uses RGB colour whereas avisynth can encode in YUV, which is faster. Another is because of 'double framserving", i.e., DVD2AVI and VFAPI.

[jledhead]

when I frameserve from virtual dub to CCE, I use donald grafts smart resize filter only in Vdub and the frameserver that to CCE and do multipass vbr MPEG-2 and it does very nice.

[stupidkuei]

where can I find donald grafts smart resize filter???

I use cce264

when I use virtualdub to input avi file,I just porcess the mpv part

I use the virtualdub resize filter to resize to 480x480

filter mode :precise bilinear and start to server

then I start VFAPI and deselect sound part and had pseudo-avi file

then I had cce to use the pseudo-avi and start to make mpv file

2520kbit/sec , the sound part I use Tmpgenc scmpx to have mp2 file

then I use mpeg tool to mux the two files

but I found the sound and image not match, image part faster then

sound part. I redo it several times,but the same situation happen

can anyone give me any advise for this situation???

Thanks a lots!!!!

[jledhead]

donald grafts page (http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/) and the link for the smart resize filter (http://sauron.mordor.net/dgraft/resize.html) . since you do the files seperatly, why not process VDub and resize by frameserving into CCE and get just the video. the extract the audio and use BeSweet+lame to get an mp2. then mux it all together with bbmpeg.