Will CCE accept a 960x528 avi via avs?

[ohhowhappy]

I've done a good bit of the simple stuff, but have never used an avs script with CCE.
I'm using CCE 2.67 to convert a 960x528 avi of a TV show to a DVD playable on my Liteon (for some reason the Liteon won't play this avi). From reading Doom9's avi to dvd guide I thought I could put together a very simple avs script to perform a bicubic resize to a size that CCE will accept. Very simple, as in:

AVISOURCE("movie.avi")
BicubicResize(720,480)

When I drop the avs into CCE it says it will not accept a frame size larger than 720x576. Do I need to first resize in Vdubmod or am I missing something obvious?

Thank you for your help.

[Matthew]

That error message is due to a bad script or some other avisynth problem, rather than the dimensions of the original avi.

Perhaps you should use FitCd to write your avs, it will ensure correct resizing etc.

But I notice you've missed parameters from bicubic resize. SOmething like this is more correct.

AVISource("H:\test\test.avi",audio=false)
BicubicResize(720,480,0.0,0.6)
ConvertToYUY2()

Bear in mind though that for precise resizing just using 720x480 isn't perfect in almost any circumstance, and flat out incorrect in many. For 960x528 being converted into a 16:9 DVD it is almost correct though.

[ohhowhappy]

Interesting. Fitcd is pretty cool. Here's its output:

# -= AviSynth v2.5.5.0 script by FitCD v1.2.4 =-
AVISource("O:\movie.avi")
BicubicResize(688,352,0,0.6,10,0,940,528)
AddBorders(16,64,16,64)
#Trim(0,61369).FadeOut(150)

CCE still wouldn't accept that. However, the audio=false from your script worked! Along with the YUY2 conversion (that line didn't make a difference):

# -= AviSynth v2.5.5.0 script by FitCD v1.2.4 =-
AVISource("O:\movie.avi",audio=false)
BicubicResize(688,352,0,0.6,10,0,940,528)
AddBorders(16,64,16,64)
#Trim(0,61369).FadeOut(150)
ConvertToYUY2()

Here's the info on the audio from Gspot

48000Hz 384 kb/s total (5 chnls) , and there's a comment about audio frames being split across the interleaves.

I tried generating an avs from another Tv program and putting that into CCE without audio=false. It accepted that. Checking with Gspot shows that the audio is aligned on the interleaves. So is the difference between the audio files producing the CCE complaint about frame size??

Further, when I forget to uncheck the audio output box in CCE, it crashes. So the script doesn't override it?

Thank you for your help!

[Matthew]

I vaguely recall having issues with avisynth/CCE and AC3 audio (but not mp3) when audio=false was not included. I have no idea about how CCE decides whether to check the box or not.

The frame size error should be a result of an error message being sent to CCE, not the real video. The words "frame size" by themselves mean nothing.

As CCE should always be bypassed for the audio (poor quality), I wouldn't worry too much about the why. So long as you use audio=false and uncheck the audio box in CCE, you shouldn't have issues.

Any troubles with the audio can be detected by running the ac3 through BeSpliced/BeSplit and checking the log.

[ohhowhappy]

As CCE should always be bypassed for the audio (poor quality), I wouldn't worry too much about the why. So long as you use audio=false and uncheck the audio box in CCE, you shouldn't have issues.

I hear you. Thanks again.