Field Order and .AVS files

[vhdlman]

Hi All

Two questions:
1) Does anyone know of a program that can CORRECTLY detect the
field order in a VOB or M2V file? I have re-encoded a lot of
extras and keep finding that although DVD2DVDR and Bitrate.exe
report the m2v files as "top field first", I nearly always
have to use pulldown.exe to change the encoded m2v's to bottom
field first.

2) When using DVD2DVDR, the package makes a .AVS file which
seems to make CCE-2.5 encode faster. (0.95 without, 1.4 with).
Does anyone know how to make an AVS manually? For example, if
I use DVD2AVI to make .d2v from VOB set and vapfi(?) reader
to create the .vaf/avi file, what would the .AVS file look like
and how would I get CCE to use it?

Many thanks for any responses

JayDee

[Navellint]

hi,
to start you could open .avs with notepad to take a look. Avisynth is used to make AVisynth Scripts. I guess you can edit them with notepad if you save it as 'all files' not 'text file'. I'm not really sure, but i thought i'd give a hint. LTR!

[benf2]

a basic script without using filters would be similar to this one, i use notepad for mine.

LoadPlugin("C:\mpeg2dec.dll")
mpeg2source("D:\MOVIE.D2V")
ResampleAudio(44100)

you will substitute the plugin name as needed(u might have mpeg2dec3.dll) or what ever. Also make sure ur path to the file is correct.

as for the mpeg2source...it will very on the name of the d2v u made in dvd2avi

Depending on the version of cce u may have to use ResampleAudio(44100) in your script even though u are not doing audio. I personally use KillAudio() in my script.

Finally when ur ready to save the script PUT " " around the name u give it....such as "movie.avs" hit save and u now have a avs file and not a txt file.

[auenf]

Originally posted by vhdlman
1) Does anyone know of a program that can CORRECTLY detect the
field order in a VOB or M2V file? I have re-encoded a lot of
extras and keep finding that although DVD2DVDR and Bitrate.exe
report the m2v files as "top field first", I nearly always
have to use pulldown.exe to change the encoded m2v's to bottom
field first.

the problem isnt that you havent detected the TFF flag right, its just that CCE handles the TFF flag differently, check the CCE forum for the right setting.

if you really want, you can use AssumeFrameBased and ComplementParity to swap the field order in avs scripts

Enf...