Video re-sizing Avi-synth, VdubMod or TMPGenc?

[keithmac]

Just interesting to know what people have found the best for video resizing.

At the moment I use VirtualDubMod to frameserve divx avi`s to TMPGENC which then re-sizes the frames and encodes to mpeg2 for dvd`s. Only reason I use the frameserving is to get rid of the divx logo to be honest.

I notice people use their frameservers to resize the video as well? Would using VDMod or Avisynth to serve and resize give me better results?

Would be interesting to hear peoples comments:)

Cheers.

[Warrych]

Yes, indeed, frameserving is a nice thing. I use VirtualDubMod for everything and get the best quality possible.

The only exeption are Quicktime movies. I could't find a way to frameserve them.

[Paulcat]

Why not just open the AVI in TMPGEnc in the first place and resize from there?

Is frameserving exceptionally faster?

I found TMPGEnc Xpress pretty fast when just making MPG's for DVD as long as you keep the filters to a minimum...

[keithmac]

If you open it direcly in TMPGEnc you`ll get the divx splash logo on every encoding, also I think the diplay settings you use to veix divx`s on the computer will be passed onto the mpeg2 encoding (brightness contrast etc), as I see it frameseving with vdubmod give a clean source to tmpgenc, could be wrong tough?

Haven`t tried the resizing in vdubmod yet, doesn`t seem to make any difference at all speed wise just doing a straight frameserve.

[Paulcat]

You could always remove the divx codec and use xvid, there won't be a display logo then, and it will be as good a quality image.

Is there not a setting in the divx setup to turn off the display logo?

[HalfHuman]

yes there is:)