Shadows in DVD2AVI

[fredoman]

Hello everybody,

as you might have noticed, this is my first post here so consider me to be a newbie. However, I have done some time ago on my old computer some DivX encoding with DVD2AVI/Nandub/Graphedit so I might not be a complete newbie and maybe my question is not completely stupid...

So now to my problem: when I start DVD2AVI from Gnot and do the cropping/resizing, everything looks fine. But when I'm starting the Frameserver there is a kind of ghost image (or shadow, I don't know how to call it) above all bright areas in the image. I might post a screen shot if this helps. When encoding the movie I find exactly the same artefact in the DivX movie.

I tried two different DVDs, both show the same problem. Encoding with other tools (i.e. NeoDivX) works without problem.

Any idea how to fix this problem? Thanks in advance!

[hakko504]

Screenshot will help, the .avs even more so. (Open the .avs in notepad and use copy & paste)

[fredoman]

hakko504, thanks for your interest!

I put a screenshot of the Dreamworks intro at http://people.freenet.de/mould/shadow.jpg .
The shadow is very visible above the letters. Less visible on this image, but always present nevertheless, is also a shadow line near the bottom of the image.


Here is the .avs file:

#
# Created with Gordian Knot
#
# http://thewef.nav.to
#
# PLUGINS
# get them from http://users.win.be/dividee
LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\mpeg2dec.dll")
#LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\InverseTelecine.dll")
#LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\Avisynth_Spatial.dll")
#LoadPlugin("C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\GreedyHMA.dll")
#LoadPlugin("C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\vobsub.dll")
#
# SOURCE
mpeg2source("D:\mousehunt\mousehunttst.d2v")
#
# TRIM
#trim(startframe,endframe)
#
# IVTC
#InverseTelecine(40,10,15)
# or use
#GreedyHMA(1,0,4,0,0,0,0,0)
#
# CROPPING
crop(3,0,714,520)
#
# DEINTERLACING
#SmartDeinterlace(2,15,true,true,true)
# or use
#VerticalReduceBy2
# or maybe
#GreedyHMA(1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
#
# SUBTITLES
#VobSub("FileName")
#
# RESIZING
BicubicResize(640,320,0,0.5)
#
# DENOISING: choose one combination (or none)
# 1) little noise (fast)
#TemporalSmoother(2,1)
#
# 2) medium noise (slow)
#SpatialSoftenMMX(1,4,6,false,false,4,4,6,8)
#TemporalSmoother(2)
#
# 3) heavy noise (very slow, you have been warned)
#SpatialSoftenMMX(2,4,6,false,false,4,4,6,8)
#TemporalSmoother(3)
#SpatialSoftenMMX(1,4,6,false,false,4,4,6,8)
#
# BORDERS
#AddBorders(left,top,right,bottom)
#
# COMPRESSIBILITY CHECK
# !Snip Size has to be 13 for use in GKnot!
#SelectRangeEvery(260,13)
#
# FOOL CCEnc
#ResampleAudio(44100)

[TheWEF]

you must not crop in dvd2avi (i guess that's what you did).

wef.

[fredoman]

wef,
you must not crop in dvd2avi (i guess that's what you did)
You are absolutely right, that's what I did... I don't know why I did this, I thought that was a valid way to go .:confused: :confused:

Thanks anyway for your help, I will try again this night and let you know if the problem is solved.