the picture is misformed at 720x240 resolution

[mightyspawn]

what should i do with this. i think the original 720x567 image is also not correct, if you check that car, yes its a old one, but too small if you check the windows, or the aircraft windows on the background. But the xvid rip in 720x240 makes the car way too big, also that guy in the orange suite is too big. What can i do about this. Its some old horror 70's flick, so you cant expect a high fidelity widescreen original master tape to be used for the dvd release. Forcing a resolution is not a option i think, using 2cd's is way overkill for 88 minutes running time.

http://members.lycos.nl/mightyspawn/dvd.png
dvd original source


http://members.lycos.nl/mightyspawn/xvid.png
xvid source


[1-11-2005 11:08:58] AutoGK 2.20
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] OS: WinXP (5.1.2600).2
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Job started.
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Input file: I:\city\VTS_01_0.IFO
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Output file: I:\citynight\city.avi
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Output codec: XviD
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Audio 1: Unknown language AC3 2ch
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Subtitles 1: Nederlands : Normal
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Format: .AVI
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Target size: 700Mb
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Custom audio settings: VBR MP3 with average bitrate: 128Kbps
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Started encoding.
[1-11-2005 11:08:58] Demuxing and indexing.
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Processing file: I:\city\VTS_01_1.VOB
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Processing file: I:\city\VTS_01_2.VOB
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Processing file: I:\city\VTS_01_3.VOB
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Processing file: I:\city\VTS_01_4.VOB
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Processing file: I:\city\VTS_01_5.VOB
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Processing file: I:\city\VTS_01_6.VOB
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Source resolution: 720x576
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Found PAL source.
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Source aspect ratio: 4:3
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Manual aspect ratio: 16:9
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Analyzing source.
[1-11-2005 11:17:00] Source has percentage of interlacing in motion areas: 0,10
[1-11-2005 11:17:00] Source is considered to be progressive.
[1-11-2005 11:17:00] Output will contain 132282 frames
[1-11-2005 11:17:00] Decoding audio.
[1-11-2005 11:18:13] Normalizing audio.
[1-11-2005 11:19:32] Encoding audio.
[1-11-2005 11:24:31] Preparing subtitles.
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Compressing subtitles.
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Audio1 size: 89,801,856 bytes (85.64 Mb)
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Overhead: 5,291,264 bytes (5.05 Mb)
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Subtitles size: 229,304 bytes (0.22 Mb)
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Video size: 638,680,776 bytes (609.09 Mb)
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Running compressibility test.
[1-11-2005 11:26:38] Writing the following script to I:\citynight\agk_tmp\city_comptest.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AUTOGK~1\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AUTOGK~1\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AUTOGK~1\filters\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("I:\citynight\agk_tmp\city.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1.42222222222222
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 640
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
SelectRangeEvery(300,15)
===========================================================
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Duration was: 2 minutes 44 seconds
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Speed was: 40,14 fps.
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Compressibility percentage is: 101,79
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Chosen resolution is: 720x240 ( AR: 3,00 )
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Predicted comptest value is: 78,42
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Running first pass.
[1-11-2005 11:29:23] Writing the following script to I:\citynight\agk_tmp\city_movie.avs
===========================================================
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AUTOGK~1\DGMPGDec\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AUTOGK~1\filters\autocrop.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\AUTOGK~1\filters\RemoveGrainSSE2.dll")

movie = mpeg2source("I:\citynight\agk_tmp\city.d2v")
cropclip = autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=0,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
fixed_aspect = 1.42222222222222
c_width = width(cropclip)
c_height = round(height(cropclip) / fixed_aspect)
input_par = float(c_width)/float(c_height)
input_par = (input_par > 1.4) || (input_par < 1.25) ? input_par : (4.0/3.0)
out_width = 720
out_height = round(float(out_width) / input_par)
hmod = out_height - (floor(out_height / 16 ) * 16)
out_height = (hmod > 4) ? (out_height + (16 - hmod)) : (out_height - hmod)
new_aspect = (float(out_width) / float(out_height)) / fixed_aspect
autocrop(movie,mode=0,wmultof=4,hmultof=4,samples=10,aspect=new_aspect,threshold=34,samplestartframe=0,leftadd=0,rightadd=0,topadd=0,bottomadd=0)
LanczosResize(out_width,out_height)
RemoveGrain(mode=2)
===========================================================
[1-11-2005 12:07:59] Duration was: 38 minutes 36 seconds
[1-11-2005 12:07:59] Speed was: 57,11 fps.
[1-11-2005 12:08:00] Expected quality of first pass size: 82,79
[1-11-2005 12:08:00] Running second pass.
[1-11-2005 13:12:53] Duration was: 1 hour, 4 minutes 53 seconds
[1-11-2005 13:12:54] Speed was: 33,97 fps.
[1-11-2005 13:12:54] Job finished. Total time: 2 hours 3 minutes 55 seconds

[scharfis_brain]

720x296 will be the correct resolution

[mightyspawn]

should i just force it?

[scharfis_brain]

[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Source aspect ratio: 4:3
[1-11-2005 11:13:44] Manual aspect ratio: 16:9

I guess that is the reason why you got the wrong AR!
Set the AR to 4x3 again, and it'll went right.

[mightyspawn]

oops wrong log file, i did that the second time to see if there were any differences. but no, still same situation :(

[laserfan]

I would first use DVD Shrink to "reauthor" a small section out of the movie to test with, then I would try CTRL-F9 and modify the cropping setting to start searching further into the movie i.e. 2000 frames or something. Maybe the beginning of the thing (where it looks for aspect) is different than the main movie perhaps.

Just a guess. I only learned about autocrop yesterday, and still don't know it!