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FACAR - As seen on TV!
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I released a new improved version of Gerti's SemiAutoCropAndResize script for DVD2SVCD. Excerpts from the Readme: Quote:
http://www.geocities.com/r6d2_stuff/ (primary) http://www.angelfire.com/droid/r6d2/ (secondary)NOT latest version. Cheers,
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) Last edited by r6d2; 8th February 2004 at 23:32. |
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FACAR Change log
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# Change log: # # v1.06.7 # - Added corrected aspect ratio in preview mode for PAL (now both NTSC and PAL supported). # - Fixed OverscanH bug of cropping too much top&bottom on "high" anamorphic movies (DetectedHeight > 448 in NTSC). # - Changed default values for Overscan to 5%. # # v1.06.6 # - Added "real" ASOTV mode and set as default. # - Fixed aspect ratio on 528x480 frame size, mistaken as 704-based in FitCD. # - Simplified aspect ratio calculation on 544x480 frame size to make it more general. # - Added corrected aspect ratio in preview mode (for NTSC only in this version). # - Reorder parameter entry to most used on top for easier setup. # # v1.06.5 # - Added automated AutoCrop values fill in (thanks Tylo) # - Added resizer preview modes # - Renumbered and included the 7 resolutions in non-DVD2SVCD mode. # - Fixed anamorphic source flag bug introduced in 1.06.4 when output was VCD. # # v1.06.4 # - Added automated install/uninstall (thanks Tylo) # - Added visual transparency overlay of overscan area in debug mode # - Perfectly integrated with D2Sroba (thanks Tylo) # - Repackaging of third parties utilities (AutoCrop11 now bundled with docs fixed) # - Fixed: weird things happened if you changed heavily the overscan defaults. # - Fixed: manual override of BlockOptimization was not being applied. # - General doc improvements # # v1.06.3a # - Added all needed files on the zip. # - Added support for QMF # - Rearranged parameter order for most frequently used first. # - Fixed: wrong output (just in preview mode) when using non standard res and VCD was selected in DVD2SVCD. # # v1.06.2 # - Added BlockOptimization = 0 (auto mode) # - Added more debug info # - Fixed: BlocksToCropVertical calculation to reflect anamorphic source # # v1.06.1 # - Added support for any output resolution (as in FitCD) # - Replaced BlocksToCrop parameters by Overscan parameters (adjusts itself now) # - Added Debug level 3, even more data # - Fixed: old AviSynth syntax bug (thanks sh0dan) # - Fixed: Original docs had BlocksToCrop reversed (thanks Holomatrix)
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) Last edited by r6d2; 8th February 2004 at 23:33. |
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Edit: jorel, either your DNS is 5 days old or you browser's cache is playing tricks on you. Both links are up.
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MPEG4 quality with MPEG2? - Try the Poor Man's DVD. FACAR - As seen on TV! - The Complete Idiot's Guide to a good DVD Conversion. Time is money. Try D2Sroba for DVD2SVCD (FAQ) and save both. All electricity bills supported! Do you know how much overscan and which resolution your TV has? Find out if NTSC. Moderator: 1: one who arbitrates 2: one who presides over an assembly, meeting, or discussion 3: a substance (as graphite) used for slowing down neutrons in a nuclear reactor (Webster) Last edited by r6d2; 14th September 2003 at 23:05. |
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15th September 2003, 15:35 | #6 | Link |
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I've played around with the AutoCrop C++ code, and made a new version of the AutoCrop avisynth plugin. It enables AutoCrop itself to fill in the detected Top and Width for you, making it independent from D2SRoBa. This will make FACAR very much alike RB's AutoFitCD plugin in functionality (only it will not switch to the FACAR template autmatically after preview). If you're interested, I will make it available to you (incl source code), so you can include it with your FACAR distribution. Six new optional parameters: - outFile : ini file name to write back cropping information - outSection : ini section name - outKeyLeft : ini key name for detected left - outKeyTop : ini key name for detected top - outKeyWidth : ini key name for detected width - outKeyHeight : ini key name for detected height When the outFile + outSection are specified, AutoCrop will write the output in preview mode(=1) only. I.e. it will no longer be neccesary with the extra call with mode=2. The new AutoCrop version is fully backward compatible with v1.1. [AVISYNTH_FACAR DetectBorders] .. 2=AutoCrop(mode=1, ..., outFile=!ThisFile.ini, outSection="AVISYNTH_FACAR", outKeyTop="^DetectedTop.", outKeyHeight="^DetectedHeight") .. !ThisFile.ini=C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\AVISYNTH.INI |
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Sounds great! I had been playing with AutoCrop 1.1 calls to detect and use the values directly (like GripFit does), but I found that sometimes AutoCrop just doesn't get it right. Human intervention to say "this is it" is still needed or you may find out later that you lost a lot of time. If you have time, you might try to modify AutoCrop algo to do something like this: instead of using a predefined threshold, scan the lines and compute the maximum M for all of them. Then stop when (M(n)-M(n-1)) > E, where E is the possible error of a black area (determined experimentally). I think this way human intervention can be left aside. I'd do it myself, but C++ is quite obscure to me. I'm an old timer. Please e-mail me your code (I PMed you my e-mail address).
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FACAR 1.06.5 is out
New features/fixes:
# v1.06.5 # - Added automated AutoCrop values fill in (thanks Tylo) # - Added resizer preview modes # - Renumbered and included the 7 resolutions in non-DVD2SVCD mode. # - Fixed anamorphic source flag bug introduced in 1.06.4 when output was VCD. I've found that for Q=constant, resizers increase the demand for bitrate in this order: Code:
Resizer BR Lanczos 115% Bicubic(0,0.6) 111% Bicubic(0,0.5) 110% Simple 109% Bicubic(1/3,1/3) 103% Bilinear 100% Please give DebugMode=10 and related a try. Maybe you can see the difference in using the various resizers. Me, at least, I am resizer blind and stick to Bilinear when it's about shrinking an image. Cheers,
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FACAR 1.06.6 is out
New features/fixes:
# v1.06.6 # - Added "real" ASOTV mode and set as default. # - Fixed aspect ratio on 528x480 frame size, mistaken as 704-based in FitCD. # - Simplified aspect ratio calculation on 544x480 frame size to make it more general. # - Added corrected aspect ratio in preview mode (for NTSC only in this version). # - Reorder parameter entry to most used on top for easier setup. Get it at the usual places linked in the first post. See the Readme for more detail on the changes (also excerpted in the first post).
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6th October 2003, 05:34 | #10 | Link |
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r6d2, I don't think it gets said enough. You are an absolute jewel of a forum member. The work you have done on improving Gert's semi-auto work with Facar has just made encoding in d2s even more of a pleasure. Facar is so easy, so well thought out, and works so well. That's nearly becoming a trademark of yours So, anyway, a very big and sincere thank you for all this work you do for us!
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7th October 2003, 20:07 | #11 | Link |
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Thank you for a great tool!!!
I've been using GripFit for a long while to resize. What's the differents between FACAR and Gripfit? Isn't GripFit exactly exact as FACAR??? And I'm litle bit qurius about the QFM script? Should I only remove "#" to use it, and should I use it on every encode? (high/low bitrate) |
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The QMF script if more hypothetical than actually useful, but it is good fun to play around with. Perhaps if the motion parameters were lowered it would be more useful.
You certainly should try adding the indicator lines I put in one of these threads to visually show what motion band is being used. It is quite educational. In practice, the pre and post filters are more practical. I guess what I am saying is if you actually *need* the QMF to achieve a compression target, you would be better off adding another disk for svcd or making more space available on a DVD because that level of compression normally effects video quality adversely. (r6d2 smiles) |
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FACAR is not as automatic as GripFit because it still requires human intervention to validate autocrop's results. On the other side, GripFit may fail to find correct borders. They both support any frame size, any resizer. FACAR is more flexible in a way, as it handles parameters in a more automated "default" way. FACAR uses overscan based cropping in a way it is independant of frame size. It also has some experiental features that are visually useful to choose resizers and frame size. Regarding the "As seen on TV" feature, I'm not sure if they both behave alike. You might try them both and tell us. /Add: I forgot the most important part: AFAIK, GripFit does not keep the aspect ratio on 704-based resolutions. You might check that too.
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tried out qmf last night.. although i changed the lancos line to simpleresize and the medium and high to bilinear. i tried deen("c3d", 1) for the medium and high for reduction but my test files actually came out bigger. so i went with the defaults. saves a few bits on a 1 cd encode. on my encode tonight where i'll have it set disks=auto, i'll put lanczos and bicubic back in (leave bilinear on the high motion).. for this im not looking to save bits.. just to make the bits i use count more (sharper lanczos frames on slow easy to see frames and bilinear/higher cleaning for high speed frames).. fun stuff
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w00kiee, I would appreciate it if you could let me know if you see any problems caused with the transitions from different resizing filters when you play on a standalone. I think I had a problem with it, but not for sure.
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@r6d2 and DDogg - i can remember seeing in another thread a post by jsquare re the qmf function and changes he made to alter the thresholds - i tried his modifications and managed to get a 115 minute film down onto 1cd at a very acceptable quality
was just wondering if this will be implemented cheers for another excellent tool hj
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(Just remember the FACAR installer will overwrite your Pre/Post/QMF scripts, so have them backed up elsewhere.)
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yeah already got that covered - sorry couldnt have explained myself as well as i thought
what i was wondering is if you thought his settings were better in your testing ?
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I think homerjay was speaking of modifying the level of motion detection in QMF. The stock settings don't pick up hi-speed until the action is very intense.
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