Movie alternates Progressive and Interlaced

[Sp33d]

The movie is Below (a new submarine/thriller movie), when I preview the vob's in DVD2Avi, the video type goes from Progressive to Interlaced over and over (very rapidly). How do I setup DVD2AVI and will this cause issues when it's time to use CCE?

Thanks!

[MickeyNBK]

You could use DoitFast4U and it will create an AviSynth script for you. It sounds like your material is hybrid (mixed interlaced and film). DoItFast4U should give you more accurate results.

Or since you already have it ripped, try this:

1. In DVD2AVI do NOT turn on forced film
2. Use AviSynth to frameserve to CCE (plent of info in the forums on using this)
Judging from your description use the following AVS script:

---------------------------------------------------------------
#####################
# This is a script that DoItFast4U created for me, then I modified it
# to work with AviSynth 2.50
# LoadPlugin should reflect the location of the dll files on your PC
# Mine are not in the default location.
# This AVS file should be in the same directory as your video source
#####################

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\mpeg2dec3.dll")

#####################
# decomb.dll is needed for interlaced/hybrid material
#####################
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\decomb.dll")

#####################
# MPeg2Source should contain the name of your d2v file that was
# created by DVD2AVI
#####################
Mpeg2Source("VTS__01_P01.4~3_1.d2v")

#####################
# Telecide and Decimate are only needed for interlaced or hybrid
# (combination of interlaced and film material)
#####################
Telecide()
Decimate(cycle=5)

#####################
# ConvertToYUY2 and add audio are needed for AviSynth 2.5x.
# Do a search in the forum about addaudio
#####################
ConvertToYUY2()
addaudio()

[Sp33d]

I'm familiar with everything you posted. I'll give it a shot. I've just never seen a film that switched between the two so rapidly. I wonder if it's flagged wrong. I'll try it a few ways and see which one comes out the best. It'd be interesting to see if DVD2One would handle it properly.

[Eyes`Only]

MickeyNBK:

I bet you're REALLY getting a good use out of my new AVS Script editor, eh? :D I added it for users like yourself.

BTW: Can you just add addaudio()? I thought you had to have some addaudio.avsi in your plugins dir?

[Sp33d]

I used DVD2One 1.1.1 and it came out fine. When I have some more time I'll have to experiment with DVD2AVI/CCE.

[MickeyNBK]

You still have to addaudio.avsi in your plugins directory that's why my comments said to do a search on it :p

You added a script editor? <Slaps forehead> here I've been editing my scripts by hand all this time. I'll have to check it out. Which version(s) have the editor? I may need to upgrade.

[Eyes`Only]

some of the beta builds of 1.0.9.x had it, but now it's in my newest major build: DoItFast4U! version 1.1.0

I plan to add AVS2.5 support to a future version (after I do some long, extensive tests on it). Would you mind if I hit you up for your knowledge/experiences when I go to do this?

[MickeyNBK]

Eye's, I'll try to help as much as I can but I've only been using AviSynth for 6 weeks, maybe 2 months. I started using it because of DoItFast4U. I'll be glad to do some testing.

[Eyes`Only]

Thanks MickeyNBZ. I'm just interesting in snags/bug workarounds. In other words, when it is added to DoItFast4U, I want it to be foolproof so that others don't receive errors because of 'not knowing what they're doing'. I see I'm going to have to detect and/or install addaudio.avsi :( I just don't understand why backwards-compatibility wasn't kept? It would be different if the old ResampleAudio bug was caught early and then the developers fixed it ASAP and gave us a working version, but instead they chose to not fix it, so we had to implement the workaround for over a year now! And now they decide to make it to where the workaround crashes your CCE? That's not cool. :mad:

[Sp33d]

Bach, my files were right off the disc. These were not altered with pulldown.exe.

[Eyes`Only]

MickeyNBK:

OK I'm finally embarking on this quest, and I'm concerned about this whole addaudio.avsi thing. I don't want users to have to put that in their scripts manually, as that leaves room for error. Can I put an addaudio.avsi file in my install and then just use the line LoadPlugin("<path>\addaudio.avsi") to my scripts? There's gotta be a way to eliminate errors, and no, I don't want to have the user specify their plugin directory during install either. I'm looking for a fully automated, no-margin-for-error method!

[MickeyNBK]

I'm not at home at the moment but I'll play with it tonight and let you know if it will work or not.

[MickeyNBK]

Ooops, nope that didn't work right either. It looks like addaudio.avsi needs to be in the Avisynth plugin folder. Adding the folder to the path statement wasn't enough. If I come up with anything I'll post. If you want to use it as a plug-in then you will need a DLL file that does the same function and I'm not even sure if that would take care of it.

I tried playing around with the addaudio.avsi. It won't work with LoadPlugin. If you put the file in a folder that is part of your Path statement for windows (like c:\windows\system32) it will work. So you either need to add "C:\Program Files\DoItFast4U" to the user's path statement or you can drop addaudio.avsi in a system folder.

I think the best method would be to edit the path statement.