Batch encoding with filters

[bugmenot]

Hello everybody. I have been encoding videos now for a couple of years now, and I consider myself an intermediate-level encoder. Now I need help to finish a large project that I have been neglecting for a while:

I have lots of mpeg2 recorded tv shows that I have extracted and cleaned from my ReplayTV. These files are very large however, and fairly noisy. I want to compress all of the files into XVID, and I know the size and framerate that I want, but I also want to add virtualdub filters and do them in batches, so that I can run them overnight. I have been fairly happy with the program DVX, but it doesn't do batch processing. I also like AutoGK, but it can't use filters. Is there another program which is fairly simple to set up like AutoGK, but that can also use filters? I have searched the forums for a long time, and I haven't been able to find one. I would appreciate any advice on this.

By the way, the filters I want to use are a denoiser and a sharpener.

[ObiKenobi]

Just use Avisynth with VDub or Vdubmod

[bugmenot]

Since I'm encoding from mpeg2, virtualdub won't work. I've tried Vdubmod before, but it hasn't worked out. is there a good tutorial for running it. Iam already familiar with virtualdub.

[ObiKenobi]

Originally posted by bugmenot
Since I'm encoding from mpeg2, virtualdub won't work. I've tried Vdubmod before, but it hasn't worked out. is there a good tutorial for running it. Iam already familiar with virtualdub.

That what Avisynth is for. Use DGDecode to import the mpeg2 file into the script and there are a number of Avisynth plugins to do the filtering you want.