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Old 1st May 2008, 14:43   #61  |  Link
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Firstly, try VirtualDub 1.8. It's unstable, but has better colourspace support. Secondly, in Lagarith's config, select RGBA as the output.
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Old 6th May 2008, 04:24   #62  |  Link
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Hi, thanks for the reply.

I tried VirtualDub 1.8.0 with the same results as 1.7.8. It still says Dummy Alpha Channel in the color depth options for 32 bit RGB. And I have the mode set to RGBA in the Lagarith configuration.

I suppose I will have to look writing an app to compress my own avi from images or uncompressed avi with Lagarith.
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Old 6th May 2008, 16:14   #63  |  Link
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Avisynth supports RGBA and you could use avs2avi to encode it to lagarith, in that very same thread you can also find a GUI for it (avs2avidrop).

It just occurred to me, did you set virtualdub to work in fast processing mode?
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I have often created lagarith files containing alpha channel with Adobe After Effects or Adobe Premiere. I think free trial versions may be available. Avisynth can also generate video with alpha channel like [P]ako said, and thats probably the easier way to just test it.
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Old 26th August 2008, 00:20   #65  |  Link
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I have noticed that the Lagarith codec has been updated to version 1.3.18! Thanks for the updates Ben Greenwood

http://lags.leetcode.net/codec.html
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Old 26th August 2008, 00:42   #66  |  Link
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Hi!

Version 1.3.17, and 1.3.18 uninstall function is bad.

if I use lagarith.inf form 1.3.15, uninstall works.
Different is "setupapi.dll" - "setupx.dll"

My system is XP, 32 bit.
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So, I'm very annoyed by the Adobe video apps (I've seen this in Premiere Pro and After Effects CS3) inabilty to actually take settings with Lagarith. I can choose the options like normal, but when I close the dialog and go back, it's always RGB without multithreading, and regardless of what I set the options to, the output is always RGB single-threaded.

Anyone know of any workaround for this? A reg key I can set for default behavior or something?
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Take a look at c:\windows\lagarith.ini.
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Old 5th September 2008, 23:16   #69  |  Link
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I have been trying out the newest version of MLC and the newest Lagarith, and Lagarith has been my winner!
Capturing from a NTSC Laserdisc at 29.97 720x480 YV12 using virtualvcr and through S-Video to S-Video via BT878a based board. Capturing audio as PCM 44100 stereo.
My PC has a SL9KE chip which is a P4 3.2ghz HT 2mb and 1gb PC3200 2-2-2-5 ram. XP SP2 running clean and defragged.

39 minutes of video resulted in a 12.6GB file!

MLC was too slow to be usable even on the fastest setting. Lagarith is excellent!

Capture Stats
Frames Captured: 70261
Frames Dropped1: 0
Frames Dropped2: 1
Time : 00:39:04
Time Left: 07:08:19
Free Space: 148,803,293,184
Video Bytes: 13,163,442,847
Audio Bytes: 413,569,800
Total Bytes: 13,577,012,647
Video Bytes Sec: 5,613,729
Audio Bytes Sec: 176,372
Total Bytes Sec: 5,790,101
Video Compression: 2.767
Video Rate: 29.970013
Audio Rate: 44100.241432
AV Diff: -0.000005
AV Adjust: 0.000000
AV Actual: 0.000000
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Take a look at c:\windows\lagarith.ini.
I don't see any way to set default modes in there, but in my ~\AppData\Local\VirtualStore I see

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[settings]
multithreading=1
lossy_option=3
Anyone know what the right numbers are for multithreaded and YV12?
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I don't see any way to set default modes in there
Well, wherever settings go when WritePrivateProfileInt/String is used.
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Anyone know what the right numbers are for multithreaded and YV12?
multithreading=1 means use multithreading (who would have guessed?).
lossy_option=3 means YV12. (0:RGBA, 1:RGB (Default), 2:YUY2, 3:YV12, 4:Reduced Resolution)
suggest=1 means always suggest RGB for output.
nullframes=1 means enable Null frames.

From the sounds of it this isn't going to fix your problem though.

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Bummer. So I've got it set correctly, but Premiere and After Effects are somehow overriding the defaults!
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my workaround is to use huffyuv with adobe apps (for RGB and for RGBA), after the project is finnished i would reconvert those huffs to lags for backups.
(ask for bat which controls vdub.exe and converts *.avi to *_lags.avi))
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smok3, you can use the command-line utility avs2avi.exe (http://www.moitah.net/).

I've drafted a batch file (totally untested):
Code:
SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION

if "%~1"=="" (
    echo Usage: "%~f0" <source avi>
    echo        Defaults to RGBA output
    echo        For RGB24, name it as "blahblah_rgb.avi"
    goto :EOF
)

set HOMEDIR=%~sdp0
set WORKDIR=%~sdp1

set PIXTYPE=%~n1
set PIXTYPE=%PIXTYPE:~-4%

if /i "%PIXTYPE%"=="_RGB" (
    set PIXTYPE=RGB24
) else (
    set PIXTYPE=RGB32
)

set SRCFILE=%~sf1
set AVSFILE=%~sdpn1_%PIXTYPE%.avs
set DSTFILE=%~sdpn1_lags_%PIXTYPE%.avi
set LAGSCFG=%HOMEDIR%lags_%PIXTYPE%.cfg

echo AVISource^("%SRCFILE%",pixel_type="%PIXTYPE%"^)>"%AVSFILE%"


if exist "%LAGSCFG%" (
    "%HOMEDIR%avs2avi.exe" "%AVSFILE%" "%DSTFILE%" -w -p 0 -l "%LAGSCFG%"
) else (
    "%HOMEDIR%avs2avi.exe" "%AVSFILE%" "%DSTFILE%" -w -p 0 -s "%LAGSCFG%"
)

:EOF

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henryho_hk: oh, sorry for confusion, i allready have a batch, what i meant is if somebody needs an example, i can provide. However, good batches are always welcome.

edit1: why do you need avisynth for this?
edit2: ok, i just realized my batches wont do RGBA to RGBA but for some reason it ends with RGB lags, must take a look into this..
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why do you need avisynth for this?
I use AVISynth because I use avs2avi. It seems difficult to fiddle with Virtualdub's (<1.6) VFW config in batch files. Mencoder supports VFW compression too but for unknown reasons it runs slower than avs2avi in my computer.

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how can i install for vista64?? the bat wont work for me
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how can i install for vista64?? the bat wont work for me
Sorry, I dun have any Vista (32 or 64) for testing. But you can send me the error messages (seems out-of-topic for this thread) and see if I can help.
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well vista u need the admin rights or something which the bat doesnt give
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well vista u need the admin rights or something which the bat doesnt give
What if you run it from an Admin account?
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