Divx to DVD script looks a bit OTT

[Chaddy]

Hello,

I have come across this script and wondered if it looks ok, it looks a bit over the top with the filters but i am not very bright when it comes to this avisynth stuff.

Below is the script, any feedback would be nice.


0=BlindPP(cpu=4)
1=Blockbuster(method="noise",detail_min=1,detail_max=3,variance=0.1,seed=1)
2=Convolution3D(1, 6, 12, 6, 8, 2.8, 0)
3=GripCrop(^TargetWidth, ^TargetHeight+^BorderTop+^BorderBottom, overscan=^overscan, source_anamorphic=^source_ana, dest_anamorphic=^dest_ana)
4=GripSize(resizer="^resizer")
5=Undot().Deen()
6=Removegrain()
7=TemporalSoften(2,7,7,3,2)
8=DCTFilter(1,1,1,1,1,1,0.5,0)
9=Blockbuster method="noise",detail_min=1,detail_max=10,variance=0.3,seed=5623)
10=GripBorders()
^overscan=2
^source_ana=false
^dest_ana=false
^resizer=LanczosResize

[jsoto]

Mmmm, seems the seed in line 9 should be 6523 instead of 5623...





Err, just a joke :D , I'm absolutely shocked. :eek:
Sorry, but no enough knowledge here...


jsoto

[Nick]

All I can say with any conviction is that this will take AGES to encode!
I would seriously recommend clipping a minute-long segment from the middle your AVI in VDub. For a test, divide the available disc space in the bitrate tab by the length in minutes of the film and try a conversion. This will give results roughly proportional to the full avi on a full disc.

From a decent DivX, AVI2DVD does a presentable job out of the box. If you do a test run and don't like the results, try again with this script. See if it improves matters.

All in, this will take you less than hapf an hour and you will see if the script helps. I would take note of how long it takes the video encoder. I bet that script slows encoding down by about 80%!

[Chaddy]

Thanks for replying

Tried the script on a 5 min sample from a divx film and encoding was really damn slow, the filters (judging by my eyes) made the source look worse than it actually is - while slowing encoding time somewhere over 60%.

I will break that script down and try each filter one at a time to see if i can improve anything without badly suffering by encoding time.

[Matthew]

Given that you can't polish a turd, I've been content to use only CCE's antinoise filter (which really =blur). An avisynth filter or two would probably be better, but that script is just absurd.