XviD Motion Search makes video skip

[TMLewiss2]

Well I use level 6 motion search and of course it makes the quality much much better. What I don't understand is when I do that, the video skips when I play it? Could it be a hardware issue? My system specs are:

1 gig of DDR Ram
AMD XP 3400+ @ 2400 ghz
GeForce4 TI 4600
200 gb hd @ 7200 rpm / 8 mb cache

The rest isn't important since the video doesn't even have sound yet or anything. Also the video is a NTSC mpg being converted through AVISynth with:

MPEG2Source("sga.d2v",cpu=4,iPP=true,idct=4)
Telecide(order=1,guide=0)
Decimate()
Crop(8, 56, -8, -60).BicubicResize(624, 352)

If you need any more info please just ask. Thanks in advance for any help.

PS: Does anyone know where a good guide for XviD is, because there are alot of options that I have no clue what they even do!

[jon.schaffer]

Originally posted by TMLewiss2
Does anyone know where a good guide for XviD is, because there are alot of options that I have no clue what they even do!

Crusty's FAQ:
http://ronald.vslcatena.nl/docs/xvidfaq.html

Doom9 Guide:
http://www.doom9.org/xvid.htm

[ChronoCross]

Level 6 motion search? *pulls up xvid config* if your talking about VHQ there are 4 level of VHQ. There's a setting called Chroma Motion which doesn't involve levels. Could you give more information about your settings? btw stuttering video can also be caused by packed bitstream or even the Decimate your using if the clip is a hybrid 30fps and 24fps clip.

[TMLewiss2]

no it only skips when I change Motion Search to anything. If I leave it off its perfect, except the quality sucks.

[b00zed]

Originally posted by ChronoCross
Level 6 motion search? *pulls up xvid config* if your talking about VHQ there are 4 level of VHQ. There's a setting called Chroma Motion which doesn't involve levels.
Level 6 motion search, right above VHQ:
http://www.doom9.org/images/xvid/xvid1-advanced-motion.png

TMLewiss2: With a 2400GHz CPU I wouldn't think you'd have much trouble with anything :P
Actually, the fact it's overclocked might be a problem (for stability reasons,) since those settings shouldn't cause any playback trouble with even 5 year old equipment.

[ChronoCross]

IDK why your system would have trouble playing it at all. your CPU is way more powerful than mine *see sig*. Are you using xvid to decode it? or are you using something else? it just seems odd that it's only affected by setting the motion search to anything but 0. Anyone else got any idea what it could be?

[TMLewiss2]

Originally posted by TMLewiss2
no it only skips when I change Motion Search to anything. If I leave it off its perfect, except the quality sucks.

On that image, mine looks like almost the same, its just that it doesnt have that option "Use VHQ for bframes too".

Can someone post the link for the newest Decoder and Ecoder so I know I have the right versions.

Also my CPU isn't overclocked, AMD's whole ****+ thing is just performence status. See my processor is only 2.4 ghz, but it outpreforms intels 3.4. Thats why I said 3400+ @ 2.4 ghz

[Didée]

Originally posted by TMLewiss2
no it only skips when I change Motion Search to anything. If I leave it off its perfect, except the quality sucks.
Your video gets decoded by a decoder that has problems with Bframes and/or packed bitstream. Assumingly you have a too old version of ffdshow installed.

Either

a) get the newest ffdshow compile from e.g. here (http://ebola.gamersrevolt.it/celticdruid/ffdshow/). (And ignore c) ).

b) disable "packed bitstream" in XviD's encoder config.

c) Under ffdshow/codecs, set "XviD to "disabled" (or to "XviD", if available) plus "raw" to "all supported".

[TMLewiss2]

Cool, that fixed it. Thanks dude. Hey I didn't even know you needed ffdshow. How come some need it and some don't. Because I know I have videos in XviD that ran fine before I got it. Anyways, thanks for helping me.

PS: Does anyone know what it going on with this: whenever I run 2 video sterams at once, the second one get a yellowish and blueish film over it...

[Asmodian]

PS: Does anyone know what it going on with this: whenever I run 2 video sterams at once, the second one get a yellowish and blueish film over it...

I bet this is because the hardware overlay features can only deal with one video at a time so the second video gets rendered in a different way.

[ObiKenobi]

Originally posted by TMLewiss2
Cool, that fixed it. Thanks dude. Hey I didn't even know you needed ffdshow. How come some need it and some don't. Because I know I have videos in XviD that ran fine before I got it. Anyways, thanks for helping me.

You don't need it, but people use it if they don't want to use the XviD decoder (usually because of the vast amounts of post-processing options that FFDshow provides).