Blacks only look good with Converttoyuy2()

[steve77]

Ok, so I've just realized that my x264 encodes are a little light, and I don't know how to fix it.

I'll have a script:

Mpeg2SourcE("TI2BFF169.d2v")
Crop(4,4,-4,-4)
Spline36Resize(720,400)

that I can use and put into meGUI, which works fine. However, the intro of my movie is supposed to be pitch black, but it isn't.

So then add Converttoyuy2(), and it looks perfect. Problem is, that function won't work with meGUI and x264.

So I played around with the video renderer settings, to no avail. I reset everything on factory default, FYI.

In order to watch the script, I simply open the .avs file in Media Player Classic... the diffrence is really easy to tell when you go in fullscreen (centered) mode, where you can see that the video (720x400) playing in the middle of the screen, is lighter than the surrounding black borders.

How the heck do I fix this? Is it when I made the D2V file, is it something with AVISynth, something with Media Player Classic...

I'm simply don't know.

Thanks for your help, as always.
:thanks:

steve

EDIT: to illustrate, see how in the first picture the video is definately lighter:

http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/4476/exampleaz6.th.jpg (http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=exampleaz6.jpg)

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/7753/example2ik5.th.jpg (http://img204.imageshack.us/my.php?image=example2ik5.jpg)

[steve77]

Ok, so by installing XviD, I don't have any problems with the AviSynth scripts, and with FFDSHOW outputting at RGB32, I don't have any problems with x264 and MPC.

Apparently it's a Microsoft thing with VMR9... I tried other renderers but still had the same problem.

Does this hapen often?