Loading Files Into CCE

[yamyam]

Up until now i have been using tmpgenc but i have seen in various posts that cce is far better quality wise. I have just installed cce (lite 2.64) and cant seem to open mpeg2 files it wont open d2v files either. Can somebody tell me how i can open mpeg2 files please.

[wmansir]

Your better off sticking with TMPenc as opposed to CCE lite. For superior quality you need CCE SP. As for the file loading problem, CCE needs a frameserver for mpeg2 video, such as Avisynth or vfapi.

check out doom's guides. I would give you a link but the site is screwy for me right now, from the front page go to Guides->Vcd/Svcd->Dvd2avi->CCE guide. That will give you the setup with vfapi. If you want to get more speed you can move on to avisynth, look for the mpeg2dec frameserving link on the vcd/svcd guides page.

[yamyam]

What i am trying to do is copy a dvd 9 to a dvd-5 by re-encoding the mpeg2 stream & then remux with ifoedit preserving the whole disc so i need an mpeg2 encoder that will give good quality at low bitrates (tmpg is good but it wont give me the quality at the bitrates i need) thats why i need cce because from what ive read it is the best mpeg2 encoder you can get. I have a copy of cce sp but have trouble frameserving (from virtualdub just gives me an error), i dont know how to write avisynth scripts so can anyone help me any further ?

[YODAS]

u can use do it fast 4 u which will demux your files and will give u also an av script to load to CCE:-)

[yamyam]

can i specify or load GOP structures into cce as this is an essential part of remuxing with ifoedit ? (if there is i cant see how to do it)

[yamyam]

by the way i have a copy of cce sp

[SaveOldMovies]

When I try to load an avs script in CCE it just tells me that it is not an AVI. I find no other posts reporting a problem like this. Is there a solution?

[yamyam]

only the latest versions of cce support avisynth scripts, i have version 2.66 and it accepts scripts no problem my guess is you are using version 2.50 or earlier.

[SaveOldMovies]

I have version 2.62. Very frustrating to fall in the gap like that. If I had 2.66 I would know it should work and if I had 2.5 or earlier I would know that it shouldn't but 2.62 leaves me in limbo. On the other hand you probably noticed that was my very first post and I thank you profusly for the quick response!!

[wmansir]

You can't use .avs directly in CCE 2.62. As a workaround you can use the program link2, http://www.videotools.net/. It works like vfapi, creating a virtual avi file, but keeps the color in yuv so it doesn't slow down encoding.