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Prettz
15th July 2003, 16:57
When encoding a clip from avisynth to xvid using vdubmod, I noticed these lines at the beginning of the debug output for the first pass:

[Virtuald] ICM_DECOMPRESS_QUERY
[Virtuald] ICM_DECOMPRESS_BEGIN
[Virtuald] colorspace conversion: YV12 (planar) -> RGB24,flipped
[Virtuald] ICM_DECOMPRESS_END
[Virtuald] ICM_DECOMPRESS_BEGIN

Note that the output of the avisynth script was YV12 and that 'Fast Recompress' was checked. Does this mean that virtualdub actually did do a color conversion? I've never seen the debug output say that since I started using vdubmod, and it also did not say that when it started up the second pass. I need to know if it did in fact do a colorspace conversion so I know whether I have to redo the first pass.

sh0dan
15th July 2003, 22:07
VDub(Mod)initially requests RGB24 for preview in the display. When you actually do the compression, the file is opened again in YV12, and passed directly to Xvid.

Prettz
16th July 2003, 03:37
Ah, thank you very much. You've just saved me another 6 hours of encoding.