Reprocessing avi question

[Valkenaer]

I've created a couple of perfect looking avi's which I wanted burn to a cd, but unfortunately all of them are a couple of megs too large to fit on a (overburn) 90 min writable. I don't have the *.vob files anymore, so I wondered if it is possible to reprocess the existing avi's. I tried, the result after 5,5 hours of heavy calculating was an unreadable avi of only a few megs in size. What did I do wrong?

[Angelus]

there's a guide right on the divx website about splitting .avi files that are too big.

http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/gknot-main3.htm

You can set the specific size you want the .avi to be and then process it via VDub.

[killingspree]

2 more points:
- if they're just a few megs oversized, why not simply cut away some credits?
- how can you make a backup of a DVD you own if you do not have the vobs and therefore do not have the DVD anymore? pls remember rule 6 (http://forum.doom9.org/forum-rules.htm) - thanks

steVe

[Valkenaer]

There aren't any credits yet, it's not a retail DVD but digitalized filmschool project I was involved in a few years ago. I was just curious if you could reprocess an already encoded avi file, and now I know you can. Many thanks for your help!

[manono]

Hi-

If you just have an unreadable avi of only a few megs in size, then it sounds like you only ran one pass of a two pass process and only created the useless dummy .avi. Maybe you should read a guide or two to help you on your way.

[Valkenaer]

I tried this last night: opened the original avi file, added the vbr mp3 audio track and used divx311 to create a 2 pass 786 MB file. The first run took almost two hours and went as normal. The second run immediately generated an error 'target avi is too small', if I remember correctly. My apologies for these newbie questions, but I can't seem to find a topic that addresses this issue.

[jggimi]

:logfile: It's called <movie>_Gknot.log.

[Valkenaer]

21-8-2003 19:58:48: Job " 1" started.

o DivX3-First Pass: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs
o DivX3-Second Pass: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs
o Mux Audio.
End of Job 1 ( 1).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gordian Knot -
Encoding Job Data:

Type: EncD3_Both
Number: 1
Name: 1
Platform: Win2000 (5.0.2195).2

Files:
VirtualDubModExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\VirtualDubMod.exe
NandubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\Nandub.exe
AviFinal: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1.avi
AviMovie: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1_Movie.avi
AviCredits: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1_Credits.avi
MovieFS: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs
CreditsFS:
Log : F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1.log
Stats: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1.stats
Ecf : F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1.ecf

Options:
Quality/DRF: 0
CreditsStart: 119372
UseEcf: 1
CreditsIVTC: 0
CreditsAppend: 0
DeleteInterm.: 0
EnforceBitrate: 0
AntiShit: 0

Calculator:
VideoSize: 724279 kbyte.
Audio1Size: 74476 kbyte.
Audio2Size: 0 kbyte.
Overhead: 6108 kbyte.
AviSize: 804864 kbyte (786 mbyte).
FilesSize: 0 kbyte.
TotalSize: 804864 kbyte (786 mbyte).
Interleaving: 1stream
Bitrate: 1118 k(=1024)Bits/s
Frames: 129568
FPS: 25.000
Duration: 126:23
Quality: 0.203 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck3: 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck5: 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
Resolution: 640 x 352

Audio 1:
Mode: Just Mux Source File.
SourceFile: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek.mp3
WavFile: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek.wav
Mp3File: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek_1.mp3
Azid:
Lame:
Delay: 0
Interval: 1
Preload: 500
Mux: 1
Recalc: 1
DeleteWav: 1

Audio 2:
none.

19:58:48: Audio 1, determined: 74476 kb
19:58:48: Audio 1, calc: 74476 kb
19:58:48: New Bitrate for Movie = 1118 k(=1024)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX3-First Pass"
// $input "F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs"
// $output "F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311_1_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("F:\\DivX\\Shrek\\shrek311.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.audio2.SetSource(0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetInterleave(1,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.audio2.SetVolume();
VirtualDub.audio2.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDivX(6000,9999);
VirtualDub.video.SetQualityControl(0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetMotionDetection(8,10,300,300);
VirtualDub.video.SetCrispness(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SpaceKF(24);
VirtualDub.video.InternalSCD(100);
VirtualDub.video.SetMinKBPS(270);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveFile("");
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveMcFactor(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveCompression(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveFilter(0,9999);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveCredits(0,350);
VirtualDub.video.SetLumaCorrectionAmp(0,10,30);
VirtualDub.video.SetCurveRedist(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsMain(2,2);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsA(300,2,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsB(300,2,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsC(300,2,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsD(300,2,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelsE(300,2,16);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompLevelK(2,4);
VirtualDub.video.SetBitsReservoir(0,100,0,100,45,100);
VirtualDub.video.SetLowBrCorrection(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.NoAVIOutput(1);
VirtualDub.video.GenStats("F:\\DivX\\Shrek\\shrek311_1.stats",1);
VirtualDub.video.SetEncodingControl("");
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("F:\\DivX\\Shrek\\shrek311_1_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

19:58:48: Started DivX3-First Pass: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs
21:57:55: Finished DivX3-First Pass: Duration: 1 hour, 59 minutes, 6 seconds.
21:57:56: Speed: 18.129 Frames per Second.
21:57:57: Error:
Total Encoding Time: 1 hour, 59 minutes, 8 seconds.
21-8-2003 21:57:57: Job " 1" finished.
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

[mothman]

Originally posted by Valkenaer
There aren't any credits yet, it's not a retail DVD but digitalized filmschool project I was involved in a few years ago. I was just curious if you could reprocess an already encoded avi file, and now I know you can. Many thanks for your help!

Originally posted by Valkenaer
o DivX3-First Pass: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs
o DivX3-Second Pass: F:\DivX\Shrek\shrek311.avs

[/B]

school project?....
WOW could you give yourself away anymore

[Valkenaer]

Not quite that stupid, thank you very much ;) As I posted earlier I have several avi's that are oversized. I do own the Shrek DVD, so I can create another divx avi from that anytime, but I do not have the DVD on which my filmschool project was tranferred. I posted the shrek logfile because it generated the same error when reprocessing as the project did. I just figured the error was a result of it not being a fully qualified 'retail DVD' but given that the shrek.avi won't reprocess either, I knew that couldn't be the problem. Does somebody have an idea what went wrong? I guess buying a DVD burner would solve my problem too :)