Frustration

[chipvideo]

I am using cce for the first time and I am having problems with the 2 gig limit that cce can encode. I have ntfs. Using virtuldub to capture. I have gone and looked at all guides and it just doesnt work. I am not an expert, so I wish there was a simple way around this. Starting the frameserve in vdub and seems to do nothing. Even in the guide it talks about going to the vdub directory and right clicking one of the exe files. Well there is no files other than the virtuldub.exe. Please help. If somone has a detailed foolproof guide step by step I would be in HEAVEN. These are captures from tv. Have been using tmpge, but the damn encode time is around 24 hours for a movie, so I would like to use cce to speed up stuff.

[rolonzos2]

I hope this helps.

I'm not sure which format you're trying to convert from (AVI or DV) -> to (VCD or SVCD?).

If you're converting from avi to SVCD, this guide might help:
http://www.users.qwest.net/~rolonzos/AVI2SVCD/

If you're converting from MPEG or DVD to SVCD, this guide might help:
http://www.users.qwest.net/~rolonzos/DVD2SVCD/

I suppose I could write an avi to VCD tutorial too, but it'd use TMPGEnc because I've read that it's got better VCD picture quality.

[auenf]

Originally posted by chipvideo
I am using cce for the first time and I am having problems with the 2 gig limit that cce can encode. I have ntfs. Using virtuldub to capture. I have gone and looked at all guides and it just doesnt work. I am not an expert, so I wish there was a simple way around this. Starting the frameserve in vdub and seems to do nothing. Even in the guide it talks about going to the vdub directory and right clicking one of the exe files. Well there is no files other than the virtuldub.exe. Please help. If somone has a detailed foolproof guide step by step I would be in HEAVEN. These are captures from tv. Have been using tmpge, but the damn encode time is around 24 hours for a movie, so I would like to use cce to speed up stuff.

to overcome the 2gb limit in CCE, you will need to use a DirectShow AVI, (VirtualDub only outputs a VFW AVI) or frameserve the avi to CCE (Avisynth is the most popular)

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[chipvideo]

I am capturing at 720X480 and then using these captures to burn onto a DVD.

[rolonzos2]

Ok, what you could do is use VirtualDub to split the AVI file at about the point you'd reach 2GIG in CCE. So, you'd have two halves. I think you can then author the DVD to run the two together seemlessly just like VOBs do on DVDs. I hope this makes sense.
AVISynth can also specify points to begin and end when reading an AVI. So, you could create two AVISynth files, which would specify it ends near the 2GIG limit and then create another AVISynth file that specifies it starts where the other one ends. Then, you'd have to merge the two files again just like the first method of using VirtualDub, which is why I'd just recommend using VirtualDub to split the files.

I hope this helps. Perhaps someone knows which program might be best to merge the two files created by CCE so they play seemlessly like VOBs would on a DVD?

[bb]

As auenf pointed out, AviSynth is the solution to the problem. Don't split your files, that's a hassle and just costs time. Just install AviSynth, and create an AVS script like:
AviSource("C:\blabla\capture.avi")
or, if your capture is segmented:
SegmentedAviSource("C:\blabla\capture000.avi")
Do not include the segment counter, i.e. do not write SegmentedAviSource("C:\blabla\capture000.00.avi").

If you don't want to resize or apply any filtering, then this one-liner is all you need. Open the AVS file in CCE, choose your settings and encode.

bb

[rolonzos2]

He's right. My bad. I did some more research after I posted my reply. It's really best to do it his way...

Next time I'll look before I leap! :confused: