Crop losing sound

[sspotts]

I'm new to ripping DVD's and used [spam] to rip hundreds of my DVD's to AVI so I can easily access them through my TiVo.

Unfortunately, I used a single default aspect ratio for all of the movies, 700x400, 1200kbps video bitrate, 128kbps audio bitrate, MPEG4 video codec. Most of the movies have a black band top and bottom, and I wanted to use Avisynth to remove the bands. I tried a simple crop command, which did remove the bands, but the resulting AVI has no sound.

Is there some trick to this? I just want to remove the bands and keep everything else the same.

[Didée]

Please give more detailed information - exact Avisynth script, which application, what settings.

The only thing I can tell you for sure is this: the crop() command of Avisynth does keep audio intact. The error necessarily must be somewhere else.

[Guest]

Is there some trick to this? I just want to remove the bands and keep everything else the same. Yes, you have to dub the audio and video back together in your script. E.g.:

vid=AVISource(...).Crop()
aud=... # your audio source filter
AudioDub(vid,aud)

[MatLz]

Doesn't avisource keep the audio ? :confused:

[Guest]

I don't know. I never use it. :)

[MatLz]

You joker :D
It does...

But, for optimal quality, even if it is long to do that, he should start from his DVDs, not from his AVIs.

btw, to have assign the same bitrate to all movies is bad....recode a maybe bad encoding may be more bad...:devil:

[Guest]

But, for optimal quality, even if it is long to do that, he should start from his DVDs, not from his AVIs. Of course you're right, which explains why I never use AVISource(). :)

[sspotts]

Okay, so if assigning the same bitrate is bad, how do you get the right numbers? Is there a simple way to rip 6-700 DVD's to AVI?

I also just tried using VirtualDub to process the scripts, and it blew up the size of the file no matter what I tried. The scripts I've been trying are simple:

AVISource("E:\Video\SciFi\Pitch Black.avi")
Crop(0, 44, -0, -48)

[Guest]

In VirtualDub you have to set an output compression with Video/Compression, otherwise uncompressed RGB will be used.

[MatLz]

Well, your audio issue is strange and should be investigated, but that's not a problem here because you don't need to process audio at all. Your audio is already compressed.
Just mux it after to have processed the video.
But I suggest you to use AVC to limit the quality loss.

[MatLz]

So, if I were you :
-identification of similar 'cropping values' videos
Put all of them in the same folder
-do a .bat launcher for each folder to write all the scripts ( avisource().deblock().crop() )
-after that put all in the same folder and make an other launcher to encode and remux

As it is low res, it will be relatively fast to process, so you can use really high settings for the encoder with low quality based value (crf 17-18)

[sspotts]

I wish I knew what you two just said... :)