Encode EVO HD files to AVI/MKV/MP4/MPG 1/2 etc.? [Archive] - Page 7

jmrenrav

27th January 2008, 19:39

Ok guys! After playing around for several hours, I have now finished Seabiscuit and The Hulk.

I'm using the guide from the main page, but I've found a couple things I think help.

1st off:

Use the COUNTED frames and not the calculated frames. I let it do a full scan, and go off the counted and I haven't had an audio sync issue so far.

2nd off:

I'm not sure how this effects my movies, but I've been using ffdshow for VC-1 and H.264 encoded movies. I like ffdshow video decoder because it can do just about everything.

3rd:

I encode my audio to ac3 using the -libav command.

4th:

I use a bitrate calculator and determine the bitrate to be able to store my movies on a DVD9 - works like a charm ;)

5th: I've been REBUILDING the video and audio completely separate. I tried demuxing the video one time and got a error when going into graph edit, does not seem to do this when you rebuild, also when you rebuild audio, the file is larger then when you demux. I have had good luck rebuilding them separate!

and finally:

Windows Media Classic/Media Player seems to play back the movie better than VLC player. VLC took forever to find the spot when skipping forward, with MPC I have no problems skipping forward and audio stays in sync.

Thanks for all the help, I think i've found my way to backup my HD DVD collection, I'll try Bluray later ;)

Tegeril

27th January 2008, 20:51

I'm also using the method on the first page. My only digressions from that guide were to utilize eac3to to convert my audio since I then have access to the TrueHD tracks and better eac3 conversions using the Nero plugin (Haali also is somewhat borked in 64bit and didn't like my files when the video had audio in them, so it's good that I work with video and audio separately). I also do 12MBit video quality and 640kbit audio quality. Everything else I do (save only using one audio track instead of the multiple he used) is as it is in the guide on the first page.

One time so far, the audio rebuild failed, and when I used eac3to to convert it, I got silence/noise. This was 300, but when I gave eac3to the original EVOs, it converted fine.

Have now completed 300, Corpse Bride, Happy Feet, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Planet Earth Disc 1 EP 1-3, Poseidon, and V for Vendetta. I use the much more advanced h.264 settings that were presented on the first page, and my longest encode so far came very close to 24 hours.

Threedcoder

27th January 2008, 22:30

Use the COUNTED frames and not the calculated frames. I let it do a full scan, and go off the counted and I haven't had an audio sync issue so far.

Can we get a final word on this? I've been using calculated frames and also have not experienced any sync issues.

I've finally decided to go with WMV-HD. It would be nice if Sony could get their WMA Pro audio playback sorted out. But even if they don't, I already have three 360s and a Vista Media Center PC, so WMV-HD makes the most sense for me personally.

With that being said. I've started encoding movies on the Media Center machine which is a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (original Intel dual core P4s). I encoded a normal 2 hour movie yesterday and it took about 15 hours. The quality is superb.

By the way, I'm using Windows Media Encoder for the encodes. It's actually pretty nice.

P.S. On some of the newer HD-DVDs I've noticed that EvoDemux gives HUGE (impossible) time offsets for the start of the audio tracks. What should be done in that case? Assume an actual offset of 0 ms and hope for the best?

sbcale

27th January 2008, 23:13

can you explain this part for me?

Setup the video.grf and audio.grf
video.grf = video.vc1 -> Sonic HD Demuxer -> Sonic Video Decoder 4.3
audio.grf = audio.ac3 -> Sonic HD Demuxer -> AC3Filter
setup audio.avs to reference audio.grf
setup video.avs to reference video.grf
setup audio_video.avs to reference both audio.avs & video.avs
load audio_video.avs into VirtualDub and setup audio and video encoding.

Im new to graphedit

Yes, that would be very helpful for me as well. Especially what is contained in the audio.avs and the audio_video.avs and how you load it into VirtualDub.

:thanks:

Tegeril

27th January 2008, 23:38

Can we get a final word on this? I've been using calculated frames and also have not experienced any sync issues.

I've finally decided to go with WMV-HD. It would be nice if Sony could get their WMA Pro audio playback sorted out. But even if they don't, I already have three 360s and a Vista Media Center PC, so WMV-HD makes the most sense for me personally.

With that being said. I've started encoding movies on the Media Center machine which is a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition (original Intel dual core P4s). I encoded a normal 2 hour movie yesterday and it took about 15 hours. The quality is superb.

By the way, I'm using Windows Media Encoder for the encodes. It's actually pretty nice.

P.S. On some of the newer HD-DVDs I've noticed that EvoDemux gives HUGE (impossible) time offsets for the start of the audio tracks. What should be done in that case? Assume an actual offset of 0 ms and hope for the best?

I've been using calculated frames...and I've never needed to set a time offset.

Threedcoder

28th January 2008, 00:09

Yes, that would be very helpful for me as well. Especially what is contained in the audio.avs and the audio_video.avs and how you load it into VirtualDub.

:thanks:

audio.avs
--------------
DirectShowSource("audio.grf", audio=true, video=false)

video.avs
--------------
DirectShowSource("Video.grf", audio=false, seek=true, seekzero=false, fps=23.976, framecount=xxxxxx)

Note that for xxxxxx I've been using the CALCULATED frames that EvoDemux reports back after reading the .EVO.

audio_video.avs
--------------
video = import("video.avs")
audio = import("audio.avs")
AudioDub(video,audio)

From there you should be able to load audio_video.avs into VirtualDub and do your thing.

laserfan

28th January 2008, 03:24

DirectShowSource("Video.grf", audio=false, seek=true, seekzero=false, fps=23.976, framecount=xxxxxx)I've searched and looked at the Avisynth wiki but don't understand: can you or anyone else here explain please the reason & significance of using the seek=true and seekzero=false arguments? Thanks!

Threedcoder

28th January 2008, 15:57

I've searched and looked at the Avisynth wiki but don't understand: can you or anyone else here explain please the reason & significance of using the seek=true and seekzero=false arguments? Thanks!

Good question. Honestly, I don't know what the significance of those parameters are. I did however, start using them because someone recommended it either from this thread or the HD-DVD to WMV-HD thread.

At the very least, I don't think those parameters are hurting anything.

sbcale

28th January 2008, 16:16

audio.avs
--------------
DirectShowSource("audio.grf", audio=true, video=false)

video.avs
--------------
DirectShowSource("Video.grf", audio=false, seek=true, seekzero=false, fps=23.976, framecount=xxxxxx)

Note that for xxxxxx I've been using the CALCULATED frames that EvoDemux reports back after reading the .EVO.

audio_video.avs
--------------
video = import("video.avs")
audio = import("audio.avs")
AudioDub(video,audio)

From there you should be able to load audio_video.avs into VirtualDub and do your thing.

Thank you very much. I have a few questions/problems I need help with though. I have the Transformers HD DVD and it has a h.264 main feature and not a vc-1.

http://scale.smugmug.com/photos/248321650-M.jpg

I select that and get a .mpv. I load that into graphedit:

http://scale.smugmug.com/photos/248321655-M.jpg

I then load VirtualDub and open audio_video.avs. I go to video and select compression and select Divx 6.8 2 logical cpus. I click configure and set up 1080p compression. Click OK and get back to VirtualDub. I then click File->Save as AVI... give it a name and location and get this:

http://scale.smugmug.com/photos/248321660-L.jpg

What am I doing wrong? I have tried renaming the .mpv to .ts and .avi and it still doesn't work. Please help :)

p.s. I can preview input and preview output and run a video analysis pass just fine...

Threedcoder

28th January 2008, 18:00

http://scale.smugmug.com/photos/248321660-L.jpg

What am I doing wrong?

VirtualDub is picky (for some reason) with DivX 6.8. I assume you're selecting the default 1080p DivX certified profile right?

VirtualDub doesn't like that. If you look at the command line parameters in the "advanced" screen for DivX you'll see something in there like -prof 5 or something -- remove that.

Another option is to choose "unconstrained" from the drop down list of available profiles and setup your 1080p encode how you want.

Either of those two methods should allow the encode to proceed.

Get back to us if it doesn't.

sbcale

28th January 2008, 18:08

VirtualDub is picky (for some reason) with DivX 6.8. I assume you're selecting the default 1080p DivX certified profile right?

VirtualDub doesn't like that. If you look at the command line parameters in the "advanced" screen for DivX you'll see something in there like -prof 5 or something -- remove that.

Another option is to choose "unconstrained" from the drop down list of available profiles and setup your 1080p encode how you want.

Either of those two methods should allow the encode to proceed.

Get back to us if it doesn't.

Yes, I did. I removed the -profile 5 and it is encoding now. Thank you very much for all your help Threedcoder, I really appreciate it! It looks like it is going to be a lot faster than the WMV encoder option but it is estimating a 12-13GB file. How did you get KK down to 8.6? I did Ratatouille and it came out at 4.24GB. Thanks!!!

p.s.
What does the -profile 5 parameter do? It said my encode would not play on Divx certified devices?

Threedcoder

28th January 2008, 18:12

No problem.

How did you get KK down to 8.6? I did Ratatouille and it came out at 4.24GB. Thanks!!!

Ha! Funny you ask, because I'm currently waiting on my KK WMV encode to finish and it's already at 11+ GB and has been running for 18+ hours.

For the DivX version I set it to 1-pass and set the max bitrate to 6000 I believe. Also, in the resize section, make sure to select no resize or whatever the check box is. It helps speed things up a little bit since all the DivX encoder will be doing is resizing the image from 1920x1088 to 1920x1080 -- and that takes time.

sbcale

28th January 2008, 18:19

No problem.

Ha! Funny you ask, because I'm currently waiting on my KK WMV encode to finish and it's already at 11+ GB and has been running for 18+ hours.

For the DivX version I set it to 1-pass and set the max bitrate to 6000 I believe. Also, in the resize section, make sure to select no resize or whatever the check box is. It helps speed things up a little bit since all the DivX encoder will be doing is resizing the image from 1920x1088 to 1920x1080 -- and that takes time.

I did all that and it is still estimating a 13GB file. I can't believe transformers is a larger movie than KK. Maybe it will turn out not to be that large. My WMV encode took around 20+ hours as well. Thanks again, I will let you know how it turns out.

rory83

28th January 2008, 22:22

video.avs
--------------
DirectShowSource("Video.grf", audio=false, seek=true, seekzero=false, fps=23.976, framecount=xxxxxx)

For me this step fails, whether I use the Sonic decoder, or the Cyberlink one. I always get an 'incompatible pin' Avisynth error on the video avs when I load it into Vdub. No idea why this is happening...:confused:

Threedcoder

28th January 2008, 22:43

For me this step fails, whether I use the Sonic decoder, or the Cyberlink one. I always get an 'incompatible pin' Avisynth error on the video avs when I load it into Vdub. No idea why this is happening...:confused:

For the Sonic Decoder -- did you set the registry key "AllowAllRenderers" to 1?

rory83

28th January 2008, 23:01

For the Sonic Decoder -- did you set the registry key "AllowAllRenderers" to 1?
Erm.. no, missed that, I'll try!

Edit: Got it! Great stuff Thanks Threed:):):):):)

It's here, for anyone else:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sonic\CommonMPEGDecoders\4.2\VideoDecoder
Change AllowAllRenderers from 0 to 1.

Edit edit: And this is the US Phantom, which does not work with the Haali splitter but does with the Sonic one. Excellent, banging along at 10fps at the moment...

moremore

29th January 2008, 09:54

It's here, for anyone else:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Sonic\CommonMPEGDecoders\4.2\VideoDecoder
Change AllowAllRenderers from 0 to 1.

What about Vista, I cannot see this key. I'm using Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Thx!

rory83

29th January 2008, 10:19

What about Vista, I cannot see this key. I'm using Vista Ultimate 64-bit.

Thx!
See if adding 'Allowallrenderers' as a new DWORD value works...Although I assume the 64bit version of the Sonic stuff may well be different in any case or they might have detected Vista during the installation and prevented it as part of Vista's DRM infestation policies. You could upgrade to XP.

Threedcoder

29th January 2008, 14:20

See if adding 'Allowallrenderers' as a new DWORD value works...Although I assume the 64bit version of the Sonic stuff may well be different in any case or they might have detected Vista during the installation and prevented it as part of Vista's DRM infestation policies. You could upgrade to XP.

There is no 64-bit version of the Sonic software. It's still 32-bit however, it's being installed on a 64-bit OS, which there is a provision for.

I believe 32-bit software registry entries reside under the:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Sonic\CommonMPEGDecoders\4.2

sbcale

29th January 2008, 17:35

My Divx encode did not end well. It was 13GB for Transformers, the sound was all wonky, and it wouldn't stream to the Xbox 360. Oh well, I am waiting on a WMV 38 hour encode to see if I can at least get it to a WMV. Then maybe I will try Divx again...

Sephiroth0000

29th January 2008, 17:47

sbcale

29th January 2008, 18:17

How are you doing it to DIVX?

Mostly the way Threedcoder described it here:

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1091702&postcount=294

I am going to try some different decoders in GraphEdit and tweak some other settings.

Threedcoder

29th January 2008, 18:48

So far, the two 2 hours movies that I've encoded to WMV-HD have taken roughly 15 hours each. This is not bad at all. Usually I can set the encode up when I get home in the evening and it will be almost done when I wake up in the morning. This is running on an older Pentium D 3.2 GHz. King Kong did take a long time to encode for some reason -- not sure why. Also, it's average bitrate was double the other two movies' bitrates.

I am definitely sticking with WMV-HD at this point as the quality of the encodes is pretty damn good.

Once I pick up a new Q9450 (as soon as they become available) I suspect encodes of whatever type will speed up significantly.

rory83

29th January 2008, 18:50

My Poto Divx AVI was successful and constraining the Divx bit rate to 12Mbps, the Virtual Dub took 7 hours using all 4 cores with Divx6.8 Pro. I generated the source video vc1, and ac3 audio using the current version of eac3to. I used the calculated framecount in the avs that Evodemux had given me on a previous attempt.
I actually made the Vdub AVI as video only and used AviMuxGui to add the AC3 track and split the avi into 2GB parts at the end of the process.

Blue_MiSfit

29th January 2008, 19:25

I was looking at 40+ hours to do a standard 2 hour HD-DVD into DVD9 sized MKV[x264+AC3] with my old 3800+ X2 with 2 gigs of DDR400.

I got a Q6600, and 4 gigs of DDR2 800, clocked it up to 3 GHz, and it now takes 12-18 hours :)

Significant improvement, and it rips through SD stuff like a hot knife through butter. I did a full movie into CRF20, including fft3dgpu filtering in under an hour. Impressive.

~Misfit

tyee

29th January 2008, 19:59

I've got a Q6600 sitting in a box right beside me along with Abit IP35 Pro MB, crucial RAM, new PS, cooler, HD, all just waiting for me to decide on a new video card.

I see ATI cards offload all AVC/x264 and VC1 decoding to the video cards! No CPU loading, for playback anyway.

Any suggestions on an excellent video card from ATI. Maybe the new 3450's. I understand nvidia does only offload AVC/x264 decoding but not VC1! BTW, I have a Dell 30" monitor so I was told to get 512MB video card? yes/no??

Threedcoder

29th January 2008, 21:09

I just bought a new ATI 3870 ($249) -- more for development purposes. But if you're looking strictly for home theater and movie viewing purposes then I would say the 3850 is more than adequate and little cheaper.

EDIT: 512 MB will be a waste if the card is being used for home theater purposes. To decode a video stream probably requires less than a 32 to 64 MB buffer. I don't know if you can find video cards these days with as little as 128MB of video ram -- but that would be ideal. If not, then 256 should be fine, and even then, overkill.

Iskondi

31st January 2008, 21:37

Hey Threedcoder,

Sorry for the long response but I got the local flu then had a crazy network issue here at the office I had to figure out, but I'm back!

Ran through the brief guide you put together and my Divx encode is proceeding now. Based on your more recent experience with Windows Media Encoder which would you recommend? (End goals being ease of playback on the Xbox 360 and computers)

Thanks again for everyone's assistance getting this going, I'm pretty excited to have finally gotten it all going. (I've "upgrade" my OS from 64bit Vista to 32bit XP as well, wasn't sure if that was causing me grief or not but things seem smoother in XP, could just be me.)

The Movie I'd been playing with was KingKong and Divx is saying a 6.something gig movie. Is that because I didn't adjust the bitrates correctly for ideal quality?

Which settings should I use inside the AC3Filter/Divx to make sure I'm not loosing out on much quality for my smaller file size?

Thanks again all,

Iskondi

Iskondi

1st February 2008, 02:10

Hey guys,

I'm sure I'm doing something stupid, when I use Threedcoder's simple walkthrough on backing up an HD-DVD my 2 minute test encode works like a champ, sound/video etc.
However, when I do the full encode it won't play... What stupid thing am I doing or not doing that might cause that? It crashes Windows Media Player and won't play at all in Nero/Virtual Dub.
I'm thinking that perhaps I messed it up by changing from 1 pass in DIVX to Multipass pass 1 in Divx. (I admit that I'm not 100% sure what the differences are, although the multipass output a file size of 6.5GB and the Single Pass is estimating 14GB with the same processing time? Means I did something wrong for sure....)

Thanks guys,

Iskondi

jimmie

4th February 2008, 18:42

lo there guys,

thanks for the nice guide on page #1.... i am trying to follow the guide but i still got issues that drive me nuts....

i got it all working, except for one thing.... when i do the x264 encoding (i used the hq commandlines) the movie encodes just fine until 22:15 minutes. after that time i have a grey screen (on playback) and nothing else.... what might cause that? any ideas?

i would do a encoding of the feature1.evo and after that the feature2.evo (without using evodemux to rebuild) as it works great... but i am not able to join the two parts to a working .mkv - when i try to do it (mkvmerge append / avimuxgui) i get fucked up video at the point where the second part comes in.....

please help me, i am trying for weeks now and i dunno if i can handly any more defeat ;(

tia,

jimmie

eas4uk

4th February 2008, 22:54

Why dont you try joining the .evos using eac3to instead of evodemux

jimmie

5th February 2008, 06:35

lo,

oh... didnt know eac3to doees that too.... will try it!

thx! jimmie

sbcale

5th February 2008, 13:56

Gotcha.

HD-DVD to Divx w/AC3
----------------------
DVDFab to get the contents off the disk onto the hard drive
EvoDemux the .EVO files to a .vc1 (video) and .ddp (audio) file
eac3to the .ddp file to a .ac3 file
Setup the video.grf and audio.grf
video.grf = video.vc1 -> Sonic HD Demuxer -> Sonic Video Decoder 4.3
audio.grf = audio.ac3 -> Sonic HD Demuxer -> AC3Filter
setup audio.avs to reference audio.grf
setup video.avs to reference video.grf
setup audio_video.avs to reference both audio.avs & video.avs
load audio_video.avs into VirtualDub and setup audio and video encoding.

Make sure AC3ACM is installed as you'll use it to encode the audio.
Make sure that either DivX or Xvid are installed for video encoding.

I'm running a brand new machine that's currently gimped by an old P4 3.8GHz processor while I wait for the new (Penryn) Q9450 quad cores to become available.

Your Core 2 Duo should be substantially faster than my P4 for the encoding.

I am able to do it this way but I get wierd green/purple blocky parts in high action scenes and I have to remove the -profile 5 for it to work which I think is causing it to not be playable on the Xbox 360. I am going to try another decoder and see if the Sonic one is causing the video anomalies.

Does anyone have an idea on why the 360 would not play the file? Thanks.

p.s. Also for the life of me I can't find the allowallrenders in the registry. I have searched the whole thing and it isn't there!

Iskondi

5th February 2008, 19:25

I couldn't find that registry entry either but I added it and didn't seem to have any issues. I'm using the Sonic 4.2 package and my only question is how I might be able to get the size down. It's currently sitting right around 13.5gig and if I recall correctly, Threecoder had it closer to 8gig for the same King Kong movie using the same procedure. (Which says to me that I'm obviously missing something or choosing something wrong)

Iskondi

sbcale

5th February 2008, 21:22

rory83

6th February 2008, 20:43

I am looking for a good working h.264 decoder. The sonic one introduces green blocky parts and the Cyberlink one crashes TMPGEnc and Windows Media Encoder. Transformers is killing me! Anyone?

:thanks:
It's not the decoder. The Haali splitter has troubles with some files. Use eac3to instead: Madshi has done a lot of work recently on his internal splitter. Eac3to is no longer just an audio application:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966&highlight=eac3to

jimmie

7th February 2008, 07:21

Yeah!

Eac3to solved my problems! Not rebuilding with evodemux (to a new *.evo), but with eac3to (to .mkv) made things work like a charm..... Thanx for the info...

commandline is some like:

eac3to "path/to/file/1.evo"+"path/to/file/2.evo" output/path.mkv

THANKS!

jimmie

laserfan

7th February 2008, 17:01

Does anyone here know why Haali Media Splitter chokes on video-only .evo files? It seems to insist there be at least one audio stream therein before it will work with it. :confused:

firepowr

7th February 2008, 21:11

Hello, I've been reading this thread for quite some time. Now I've finally registered to post.

Thanks to all the posters here that provided the info for me to get my encoding to work. I've been looking for a way to get my HD DVD to a file format for my media center to easily play for over a year. As of right now I have two successful encodes; Mission Impossible 3 and Batman Begins. I was able to encode these movies from evo files to Divx 1080p format with the original AC3 audio. I converted the rebuild evo audio with eac3to at 448kbps 5.1 ac3. (I muxed the audio and video using AVI MUX GUI).

For the video encode I used Tmpgenc Xpress 4.0. I had to use the Avi Output Format Template, so I can use the 1080p resolution. For the codec I'm using Divx 6.8. Here are the following settings:

1080HD Profile
1-pass quality-based with Target quant. of 3
Encoding mode of Balance
SSE Full search Disabled
Checked Enhanced Multithreading

After encoding, the video is great, but the file size file fluctuates between the two movies. MI3 is around 9GB and Batman Begin is about 4.5GB. The size difference is caused by MI3 having more action scenes (I think). I wanted my movie files to be a bit more consistent. So re-encoded my movies with 1-pass with a bitrate of 8000 kbps. But the videos didn't look as good as my previous encode. So I tried to do a multipass with 8000 kbps. SO here is my problem. I can't get 2-pass to work with tmpgenc xpress. The video would finish encoding and I would get a non-working video file that is 6MB in size. I think its because there is no setting to let Tpmgenc know you're doing a multipass. It seems the first pass was used to create the stats file and tmpgenc would not continue with the second pass.

Anyone know how I can do a Divx 1080p 2-pass encode with Tmpgenc Xpress? 1-pass CBR and quality-based works flawlessly.

Again, thanks for all the help on this thread.

firepowr

7th February 2008, 21:39

I'm an idiot, and I didn't realize the Divx template had a selection for "No Profile" for me to set.

I'm now starting to encode with 2pass at 8000kbps. It seems like tmpgenc limits the file size to be 4gb files sizes. if the files are seperated I think they can be ammended with virtualdub.

It sucks how there's always one little issue when there are any new process of encoding is used.

firepowr

8th February 2008, 18:14

I've completed encoding MI3 and Batman Begins to Divx HD (2-pass @ 8000kbps). The quality is great and is preserved with 5.1 surround. My friends can't tell the difference from the HD DVD source, but what do they know? They spend most their hours at work watching YouTube vids anyway.

So here is my process to get HD DVD to Divx HD.

Applications used:
-AnyDVD HD
-Sonic Cineplayer Decoder (regedit to allowallrenders)
-EvoDemux
-Eac3to + Gui
-Tmpgenc Xpress
-VirtualDub
-AviMuxGui

Process:
-Rip movie to your hard disk
-Rebuild the evo video stream with evodemux
-Rebuild the evo audio stream with evodemux
-Convert evo audio stream to AC3 with Eac3to + Gui
-Add evo video to Tmpgenc (cropping video recommended)
-Select Divx Template, use 'no profile' with 'Advance mode'
-Set your encoding settings and encode your video.
-Videos may be seperated to 4GB files.
-Append videos with Virtualdub.
-Take the newly appended video and mux the AC3 audio with AviMuxGui.

I know it's not very detailed, but its pretty much an outlined process of how I got my encodes done. With a 2-pass @ 8Mbps encode any movie under 2hrs 35mins can fit on a dual layer dvd.

Hope this helps.

sbcale

8th February 2008, 20:34

It's not the decoder. The Haali splitter has troubles with some files. Use eac3to instead: Madshi has done a lot of work recently on his internal splitter. Eac3to is no longer just an audio application:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=125966&highlight=eac3to

I am not using Haali. I am using a graph and feeding it to
Windows Media Encoder via zambelli's wmcmd.vbs. The sonic video decoder introduces green and purple blocky parts to the resulting wmv. I need a h.264 decoder that will work.

http://scale.smugmug.com/photos/252191616_msUFE-L.jpg

firepowr

8th February 2008, 20:53

Have you tried the sonic decoder 4.3?

sbcale

8th February 2008, 21:00

Have you tried the sonic decoder 4.3?

I can't find it anywhere. It took me forever to find 4.2. :confused:

Iskondi

8th February 2008, 22:01

Hey firepowr,

Any idea why my rebuilt video only evo file wouldn't load inside Tmpgenc? (I get a "Cannot open the file" error)

If I demux the evo to a vc1 file and create a video.grf and corresponding video.avs file I can load it inside Tmpgenc but if I could avoid creating the graphs that would be great...

Thanks,

Iskondi

firepowr

8th February 2008, 23:15

sbcale - PM me your email.

Iskondi - In order for Tmpgenc to import evo files you will need to install the Sonic Cineplayer Decoder. Once install it you need to edit the registry to enable "allowallrenders". The steps are in sepheroth's document listed somewhere on this thread. You don't need to demux the vc1 video from the evo files. You just need to rebuild it with your selected video stream.

Iskondi

9th February 2008, 00:48

Firepowr,

Thanks man, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong then. I have the 4.2 version of the Sonic Cineplayer Decoder and have searched high and low in my registry for that key, didn't find it so I created it exactly as had been described.

Still no joy. I'll see if I can't figure out where I'm going wrong with my registry change.

Thanks for the quick response.

Iskondi

Tegeril

9th February 2008, 00:57

Does anyone here know why Haali Media Splitter chokes on video-only .evo files? It seems to insist there be at least one audio stream therein before it will work with it. :confused:
I am not seeing that behavior at all. In fact, just the opposite. In 64bit Vista, I was unable to get a successful encode when I fed the Haali splitter with an EVO with audio and video in it (got green flashyness). After removing the audio, I have had great success using Haali -> WMVDecoder DMO and passing that into x264.

sbcale

9th February 2008, 01:01