VC1 anyhow?

[guru1968]

is there any way to successfully convert a VC1 coded High-Def movie into divX yet?

I succeeded in at least open it in an avs script using graphedit, but due to the lack of an "DGVC1index" it's too short an out of sync after encoding
- and the final mux via divXMux also failed, rendering a non-playable file :-(

What other ways exist (if any) to convert a VC1 movie into something of more use?

greetings,
guru

p.s.
intention is to have the divx file play on the PS3, with multiple audio and (thanks to fw 2.20) multiple subtitles...

[buzzqw]

you can try the new BETA of automkv, i added DivX support

do the video encoding, then you can mux manually as you prefer

BHH

[guru1968]

well, thanks - but:

I prefer the divx codec, could you add it please?

subtitles seems not to work - at least I cannot select any...
(and for the 2nd sub the browse button is missing)

I need more than 2 audio/subtitle streams...

'Test Deint' does not work (vc1), it says:
Source is hybrid bff and tff at 0 bff and 0tff.
the next three lines: 0 -1.#J%
the rest: -1.#J% 0

Well, it doe not work with VC1, error "No video sequence header found!"

10:28:57 0.93 - - - - - - - - - - - - - START JOBS - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10:28:57 OS Version: Windows XP
10:28:57 Selected Input file: N:\Temp\00000.track_4113.vc1
10:28:57 Selected Output dir: N:\High-Def\temp\
10:28:57 Selected Final Name: test
10:28:57 Selected Container type: AVI
10:28:57 Selected Encoder: XviD
10:28:57 Selected Size: Don't care about size / 1
10:28:57 Selected Profile: 2_Pass_Better_Quality.xml
10:28:57 Selected Resizer: NONE / Original
10:28:57 Selected Filters: RemoveGrain(mode=2)
10:28:57 Selected Deinterlacer: AUTO
10:28:57 Selected Field Order: AUTO
10:28:57 Enabled CRF/CQ AutoRes at 2 value
10:28:57 Using Matrix: Didees SixOfNine-HVS.cqm
10:28:57 Track Language 1: All Audio Tracks
10:28:57 Audio Codec 1: Copy Original
10:28:57 Track Language 2:
10:28:57 Audio Codec 2: Copy Original
10:28:57

<EDIT>
00000.track_4113.vc1 is VC1 elementary stream, demuxed via tsMuxeR
when I press the preview button (advanced tab, auto crop section), the movie plays fine, so the stream seems okay

[buzzqw]

use the latest BETA 0.96

BHH

[guru1968]

...if you'd send me a link to that version, your signature only leads to 0.93...

[buzzqw]

here http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=136007

BHH

[guru1968]

no change - doesn't work either

same error: No video sequence header found

<Edit>
also using the original (i.e. not demuxed) m2ts does not work:
gives the error:
Cannot find audio or video data. Ensure that your PIDs are set correctly in the Stream menu.
Refer to the User Manual for details.

What does this mean?
- I believe this error is from DGIndex - this prog does not work for VC1; there currently is no Indexer that can handle VC1, this was why I started this thread......

[Beastie Boy]

How about muxing the video to mkv using eac3to, and then loading the mkv into Avisynth via DirectShowSource.
This worked for me with VC1 video from HD-DVD.

Cheers, Beastie.

[poisondeathray]

Avisynth & directshowsource worked for me on VC-1 sources as well

[buzzqw]

@guru1968

pardon me, i confused vc1 with avc :o

using automkv you can check in advanced settings "DSS for a/v"
or try checking "use ffmpegsource"

BHH

[guru1968]

DirectShowSource() never worked for me, for neither input format, always results in the video being a lot shorter than the audio - only way to get audio and video in sync is to use DGindexed videos; this is not possible for VC-1 yet so I guess I just need to be quiet and wait until DGVC1Index becomes available...

[poisondeathray]

Not sure why it doesn't work for you guru1968, perhaps you have changed the frame rate in your script, and did the audio separately?

Another way that works is enabling vc-1 in the ffdshow vfw interface configuration, and opening directly into virtualdub. From there you can encode to DivX or something else

[Ranguvar]

DirectShowSource() never worked for me, for neither input format, always results in the video being a lot shorter than the audio - only way to get audio and video in sync is to use DGindexed videos; this is not possible for VC-1 yet so I guess I just need to be quiet and wait until DGVC1Index becomes available...
Many ASF (WMV) videos contain VFR (Variable Frame-Rate) video. The AVI container does not support this. It is possible to create a DivX or other codec, MKV or MP4 that is VFR.

Google for more.

[guru1968]

Many ASF (WMV) videos contain VFR (Variable Frame-Rate) video. The AVI container does not support this. It is possible to create a DivX or other codec, MKV or MP4 that is VFR.

It's actually neither ASF nor AVI - it's a VC-1 elementary stream demuxed directly from a Blu-Rays m2ts file...

I did not change anything, it seems DirectShowSource only 'sees' the keyframes, because in VirtualDub the fileinfo shows only keyframes and no deltaframes - thus the video is a lot shorter (e.g. 47 minutes where it should be 1:17 hours)...
But: when playing in VirtualDub, I cannot say if the deltframes really are missing, video seems flawless; on the other hand: if using this video together with separate audio (using AudioDub in avs script), it gets out of sync rather fast...

[Ranguvar]

It's actually neither ASF nor AVI - it's a VC-1 elementary stream demuxed directly from a Blu-Rays m2ts file...

I did not change anything, it seems DirectShowSource only 'sees' the keyframes, because in VirtualDub the fileinfo shows only keyframes and no deltaframes - thus the video is a lot shorter (e.g. 47 minutes where it should be 1:17 hours)...
But: when playing in VirtualDub, I cannot say if the deltframes really are missing, video seems flawless; on the other hand: if using this video together with separate audio (using AudioDub in avs script), it gets out of sync rather fast...
If the amount of offsync is variable, it's most likely VFR.

[Beastie Boy]

If the amount of offsync is variable, it's most likely VFR.

Does Blu-ray use VFR?

[guru1968]

I got the encoding problems sorted out - LINK (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1122547#post1122547)
next issue is upon muxing: different topic, different thread...