Help encoding PSX movie files?

[rhayman]

Sorry for the strange subject.

I am trying to encode final fantasy fmv's and put them on dvd for my cousin (big fan).

The only tool that will work with me is "PSX Multi Convertor", most of the other programs keep crashing.

anyway psx multi convertor and other tools that i have got to work only export to either avi or ortginal .STR format.

when it outputs to avi the quality is really not very good and i know i could get 5 times better quality if there was a way of loading the original .STR file in to tmpgenc/cce and ecoding a half- res mpeg2file.

unfortunatly these srt/avi files have a framerate of 15fps. if i use avisynth i can get quite good results when changing the framerate from 15fps to 25fps using the line:
ConvertFPS(25)

i am very doubtfull but i was wondering:

1) Is there a better way to change the framerate.

2) is there some kind of avicodec that acts as a frameserver so that i can export from psx multi convertor.

3) Finally, i found this site http://www.tmpgenc.net/e_vfapi.html that has the STR file reader on it.
But when i click on the link it just just give a web page i dont understand :(
Is there anywhere to download this?

[killingspree]

1) try avisynths asumefps() function - unfortunately i do not know which is which, but one of the two function just duplicates frames and the other one blends... so when adding 10fps you should get less yerky movement by blending the frame
2)vfapi codec
3)www.doom9.org :)

hth - steve

[unmei]

this tool might be what you need
psxvideo (http://www.feldoncentral.com/psxvideo/psxv120.zip) , i havent used it tho, since i have no ps or videos in these formats. i saw it outputs AVI, only with PCM sound but any VCM codec (xvid, divx whatever.. and configurable)

[rhayman]

Thakyou For the replies.
I may of misunderstood killingspree but is the str file reader supposed to be on to doom9 download page because i cannot find it :(

I may alos be expexting to muxh of vfapi but in PSX multi convertor i chose VFAPI reader as the codec and it just gave me an empty file?

[Soulhunter]

Why you dont use PSX Multi Converter, and compress the video lossles to Huffyuv...? Later you can use different filter to enhance the quality of the video (I did it with the FF8 Intro some time ago...)

As the res. of the video is so low you should size it up 2x bigger than youre result should be, then use filters to enhance the picture, then scale it to your disired res. and encode it to MPEG2...

Bye

[rhayman]

Is it just me or does huffyvuv give better quality output than uncompressed AVI. thanks :)