Convert from DV to XviD

[Gnist]

Hey.

I'm new at this, and i have som trouble.
I use Pinnacle Studio ver8, to get my DV file. But i have tryed to convert the DV fil to a XviD file whitout any good resoult.
Can someone please tell me how to do this.

[bb]

Basically you can start with the DV to DivX guide in the sticky threads (of course using XviD instead of DivX). Then have fun playing around with the trillions of setting permutations XviD allows :)

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[lam_das]

I went thru that guide and when I try to save the file, it says "Video Compression Error - An unknown error occurred (may be corrupt data): error code -100."

what does this error mean?

The DV AVI file is not corrupt because I can view it in WM. I can compress it with XVID using Gordian Knot, setting bitrate/size etc. and doing add job(although going thru "open"->save&encode doesn't work for some reason and hence can't use de-interlace which I need desperately).

can you please help me with few things?

1. Gordian knot giving error on DV avi file input during "open"->save&encode.

2. above mentioned error with VirtualDub.

Thanks

[Mug Funky]

hmm... i have an incling you're using a type 1 DV file. if this were the case, virtualdub would tell you when you load the dv file...

if that isn't the case, all i can suggest is that (you use pinnacle, right?) you somehow convert the colour space to yuy2. the pinnacle DV codec that Video for Windows uses on type 2 files seems to only decode to RGB, and so if your encoding setup isn't expecting rgb, it might give a nice error like what you've got.

i'm not sure how you're converting your file, but assuming avisynth is involved somewhere, you can add just after the avisource() command, a "convertbacktoyuy2()" command. if you're not using avisynth, then see if you can find an analogous conversion in whatever you're using...

[lam_das]

Thanks, mug funky! your signature kinda cracked me up...but when I read your mail again I knew it was just a signature...

well, pinnacle DV is used for capture. Canopus is installed. DV file is type 2.

is there some flag for RGB space that I need to set in virtualDub? does the rbg->yuv2 conversion degrade quality or introduce its own artifacts? I am just reluctant to do any kind of conversions in between. Is there a tool which can convert a RBG to YUV2, so I can compare the actual source in two colorspaces? Or am I just being naive? I am definitely a newbie...:)

this is what I did to finally get my DV->XVID. Changed fourCC on source file to "cdvc". Ran Gordian knot. "open"->save&encode. Selected all filters I wanted. It didn't report all frames and preview had all colored dots(which verifies your point I think). But it could eventually read the whole file and apply all filters I selected and all was well.

With my own AVISynth script, I tried SmoothDeinterlacer plugin and that worked well too but I couldn't get it to detect FieldDeinterlace(blend=false) function from Gordian knot with my own AVISynth file. This latter filter works better in my opinion.

Virtualdub would crash in between with above mentioned messages. So, that line of action didn't work for me still.

please do answer my questions above. Thanks a lot for your help.

[lam_das]

hey mug, tried your conversion filter(file information->decompressor, with and without conversion filter tell me that the filter is being accepted). But same error in virtualDub during Save as. what's going on?