Thracks
6th June 2004, 08:04
Ok, so I have the Return of the King retail DVD here with me, and I'm using it to fiddle with nandub as I want to explore other options beyond DVDx and DVD2AVI encodes.
It's 3h30m45s, which divides quite nicely into 3 x 1h10m15s pieces.
I first made a DVD2AVI project, and demuxed the AC3 audio as per the tutorial for nandub on this site. I didn't force NTSC FILM 23.976. I just saved the project after my prefunctory OGO resizing and cropping (Which I'm not sure I had to do).
With the project saved, I ran the IVTC process with TMPGenc on auto and the IVTC to 23.976 went smoothly. I saved that TMPGEnc project.
I then imported the TMPGEnc project with VFAPI Converter and made it into a readable AVI for Nandub. The result was a 2.29GB AVI file.
I transcoded the audio from 448kbits to 192 via besweet. The audio is ~296mb. I then used nandub's bitrate calculator to find the bitrate of 3 x 700 with the 296mb audio. It came out to be about 1239kbps.
Then what I did is followed all the settings in the nandub guide, and used the suggested values (I'll edit my post and list them if you need the settings I used).
I ran a resize filter of 640x262 on precise bicubic, and ditched the black borders of your standard NTSC DVD with a crop.
When I go to hit F8 to make the first pass's stats file (For the second pass), it reads a few minutes of it and then says I'm out of disk space. Except I'm not, because it's not really saving anything?
I thought maybe I would like to try encoding only a piece of the file by setting the encode range, but that didn't work either.
When I did another project with the exact same settings, except using a smaller sample file of 5000 frames, the encoding process made that 5000 frames into 4GB.
So what I need to know is why my filesizes are so ridiculously off, why can't I encode only a sliver of the full project, and why aren't my passes working correctly?
I've triple-checked my settings. If anyone needs more explanation on something, I'll be glad to oblige. Thank you for your time. :)
It's 3h30m45s, which divides quite nicely into 3 x 1h10m15s pieces.
I first made a DVD2AVI project, and demuxed the AC3 audio as per the tutorial for nandub on this site. I didn't force NTSC FILM 23.976. I just saved the project after my prefunctory OGO resizing and cropping (Which I'm not sure I had to do).
With the project saved, I ran the IVTC process with TMPGenc on auto and the IVTC to 23.976 went smoothly. I saved that TMPGEnc project.
I then imported the TMPGEnc project with VFAPI Converter and made it into a readable AVI for Nandub. The result was a 2.29GB AVI file.
I transcoded the audio from 448kbits to 192 via besweet. The audio is ~296mb. I then used nandub's bitrate calculator to find the bitrate of 3 x 700 with the 296mb audio. It came out to be about 1239kbps.
Then what I did is followed all the settings in the nandub guide, and used the suggested values (I'll edit my post and list them if you need the settings I used).
I ran a resize filter of 640x262 on precise bicubic, and ditched the black borders of your standard NTSC DVD with a crop.
When I go to hit F8 to make the first pass's stats file (For the second pass), it reads a few minutes of it and then says I'm out of disk space. Except I'm not, because it's not really saving anything?
I thought maybe I would like to try encoding only a piece of the file by setting the encode range, but that didn't work either.
When I did another project with the exact same settings, except using a smaller sample file of 5000 frames, the encoding process made that 5000 frames into 4GB.
So what I need to know is why my filesizes are so ridiculously off, why can't I encode only a sliver of the full project, and why aren't my passes working correctly?
I've triple-checked my settings. If anyone needs more explanation on something, I'll be glad to oblige. Thank you for your time. :)