aLu
24th September 2002, 03:24
I was wondering why I don't read about this - is this 'normal', or am I the only one? I know Flask is sort of 'special', but it doesn't have this problem with DIVX.
Flask v5 can still use the 1st-pass status file after crashing (and restarting), but v6 can't (it seems to corrupt it). Flask 5 has some other strange problem with some movies (like 'Highlander' german, 'Die fabelhafte Welt der Amelie'), it repeats/ replaces every 11th frame, although PAL 25 fps, no "force film" is selected ("force file" isn't selected and greyed out, either). Flask 6 can deal with those movies and even use the first pass stats file from v5, but unfortunately it doen't treat the movie exactly the same - so the result isn't 'perfect'.
Has anyone experienced this problem and found a workaround? Like using XMPEG? I don't know the latest versions, but the one I tested was even more likely to crash than Flask6 (does it still take minutes to determine the optimizations on every startup, btw? ;-/). DVD2AVI is not my thing, I want accurate resizing.
P.S.: I read in one Doom9 tutorial that I had to 'tell Flask the length of the movie' and I'm still wondering HOW that could be done, I haven't found any button to configure this.
Flask v5 can still use the 1st-pass status file after crashing (and restarting), but v6 can't (it seems to corrupt it). Flask 5 has some other strange problem with some movies (like 'Highlander' german, 'Die fabelhafte Welt der Amelie'), it repeats/ replaces every 11th frame, although PAL 25 fps, no "force film" is selected ("force file" isn't selected and greyed out, either). Flask 6 can deal with those movies and even use the first pass stats file from v5, but unfortunately it doen't treat the movie exactly the same - so the result isn't 'perfect'.
Has anyone experienced this problem and found a workaround? Like using XMPEG? I don't know the latest versions, but the one I tested was even more likely to crash than Flask6 (does it still take minutes to determine the optimizations on every startup, btw? ;-/). DVD2AVI is not my thing, I want accurate resizing.
P.S.: I read in one Doom9 tutorial that I had to 'tell Flask the length of the movie' and I'm still wondering HOW that could be done, I haven't found any button to configure this.