Virtual Dub cropping problem

[danigon]

Hi all

I've recently captured a tv show with virtual dub using real time DivX 5.02 compression. I only have a 10GB hard disk and I'd like to crop the captured movie. The only problem is that virtual dub only allows me to do such with video set to "Full Processing Mode".
Is there any other way to do this without using the Full processing mode? (e.g. using "Direct Stream Copy"). If this isn't possible with virtual dub is there any other program to do that?

Thanks

Daniel Gonçalves

[N_F]

You won't be able to crop without recompressing.

What's wrong with Full Processing Mode?

I guess you could use AviSynth to crop it and the use Fast Recompress, but I don't know why you would.

[Justinus]

If you captured TV using DivX, you could enable crop function of DivX codec and set the value so the result will automatically crop and generate.

[?¿öM¿?]

@danigon
I assume your referring to a space problem with not being able to store a cropped 100% quality conversion of the capture, yes?
If so, I got around this problem by segmenting the avi into 4(and noting the frame length) then joining with avisynth and encoding with virtualdub. As it ran i deleted the segments that had finished (the frame num tells you) "on the fly" thereby freeing up enough space for the encode. I deleted from Cygwin bash shell as windows told me the file was still in use:D , but it might delete from the command prompt(I didn't try). This is extremely painfull, but I really wanted the episodes of spaced.

I hope this is relevant to your problem...
:)

[danigon]

thanks all

I bought a huge hard disk and now the problem is solved...

[aramo]

oh danigon a very low tech solution :)

having gone from 1*10 to 2*20 to 2*50GB I gotta admit it's worked for me too