AviSubDetector v0.6.0.5

[Shalcker]

AVISubDetector is a tool for extraction and recognition of hard-burned subtitles from various video sources.

Latest version is available here:
http://animeburg.omake.ru/download/utils/AVISubDetector_english.zip
http://animeburg.omake.ru/download/utils/AVISubDetector_english.rar

Source Code (GPL):
http://animeburg.omake.ru/download/utils/AVISubDetector_0605src.zip

Older thread about this program is available here:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56062

[gubi-gubi]

Whats the changes?

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by gubi-gubi
Whats the changes?
Only a few minor changes from 0.6.0.2.

A bit of localization support (See "File\Language").
Few visualization fixes (there was several >= while actual program used >).
Option to capture subtitle images with full frame width - since sometimes program fails to properly set subtitle edges and some part of subtitle is cut.

..and now you can download sources too :)

[seewen]

This tool is EXCELLENT.
I'll try it at once. Thanks.

[seewen]

There's no readme file at all with this tool ?

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by seewen
There's no readme file at all with this tool ?
Yes, there is no readme. There was one but it pointed to aforementioned older thread. There was even older one with basic settings but that one is also explained in older thread.

Most settings have "hints" that should appear fairly fast as you hover over them. It's hard for me to explain them better then i've done in that thread - but if you still have questions about interface you should ask them and hopefully i'll be able to make it clearer.

[gubi-gubi]

This is truley an awesome tool. It does deserve a proper tutorial though... Anyone fancy it? :D

[johner23]

I really enjoy your program. :p

Very useful to "rip" subtitles from my old VHS collection ( currenty stored into AVI ou MPEG-2 formats in my dvd collection ).

The only thing that worry me is that AVISubDetector is very fully about features and become a little bit "hard" to manage for beginners.

If someone wanna try to create a General Guide for it, it will be very useful.

PS: do you code it using Assembly, C/ C++ or wich language ? BTW, congratulations for these very handy and nice software.

Best Regards.

johner

[Shalcker]

PS: do you code it using Assembly, C/ C++ or wich language ?
Program was created in Delphi (Pascal) - since in the beginning it was more like a test of one simple idea, and the faster i could get working thing, the better... and in the end it was too big for major rewrite :D

I can probably manage to move some functions into DLL and write those in C/C++ or assembler for speed.

[johner23]

Hi, Shalcker.

I'm trying to extract a hardcoded subtitle from an avi.

But the problem is that stupid subtitles are very white and pale. And the movie is very clear too. Many "lights" around the scenes.

When I did the same with "yellow-golden" colored subtitles, in other movies, no problem. :D

But now, with those white and pale ones, ASD can't recogize them. :(

What should I do ? Any setting trick ?

If you could help, I will be very grateful.

Thanks in advance.

johner

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by johner23
But now, with those white and pale ones, ASD can't recogize them. :(

What should I do ? Any setting trick ?

There is too many variations of video, "description" in most cases is not enough. Can you post image with example somewhere and give link here?

[Mouse]

Shalcker, GREAT Software!

Question;

Can you possible add support for Swedish chars ?
(we use them stupied dots over a and o ) :) - look like this ;

(hope this translates OK ?)

å Uppercase = Å
ä Uppercase = Ä
ö Uppercase = Ö

I'll add an image, just in case.

[Mouse]

Image...

[svcdprayer]

Hello! Anyone can tell me if theres anyone wrote a guide how to properly use this great software?

Thanks

Congratulations to the author of the software!

[MickRC]

OCR is freezing up after some time. Could u please fix that?
Great program, anyway!

[johner23]

Hi, my friend Shalcker.

A very great program, no doubt. :)

Do you remember me ? I sent you some pictures from white-pale subtitle hard burned in a movie.

ASD can't read them properly ( don't recognize them )and I sent you some pics to analise it.

If you get time, progress and patience for solve those problems, let me know, ok ? ;)

I repeat: when I use an yellow/golden subs to rip, ASD solve the task without any problem. But the blue/white pales ones, it doesn't.

Thank you very much.

johner

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by johner23
If you get time, progress and patience for solve those problems, let me know, ok ? ;)
Well, just lower Drop settings to 60 instead of default 100... since there is no outline around these subtitles AND they are from low-resolution video. Either that or changing "shift" from 1 to 3. Program should be able to detect them then (or at least it does for samples you provided to me).

[MickRC]

I'm having a problem with subtitles that are in interlace.
Sometimes, first line of subtitle that appears is lower line. Upper is unrecognizable, presented with those interlace lines. On the next frame, both lines are complete. So, I had to reduce "Skip Change if Distance is Less than" to 0, to be able to get both lines. Now, program detects change and result is like this:


4
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:47,520
starac, morat ces me slusati.

5
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,320
Ako kanis postati smezurani
starac, morat ces me slusati.



As you can see, time difference between subs 4 and 5 is only one frame.
Later I have to manually delete subs like 4 since they are not required. I was just thinking, something like option "Start OCR X Frames After Change is Detected" would solve the problem.

Other problem is with local East European letters. We have S with \/ on top of it. Couldn't find a way to configure S and \/ as one letter.

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by MickRC
As you can see, time difference between subs 4 and 5 is only one frame.
Later I have to manually delete subs like 4 since they are not required. I was just thinking, something like option "Start OCR X Frames After Change is Detected" would solve the problem.

Well, you can also deinterlace using avisynth before feeding such source to AVISubDetector, if i get you right... or tweak detection settings if by "interlaced" you mean something different...


Other problem is with local East European letters. We have S with \/ on top of it. Couldn't find a way to configure S and \/ as one letter.
"Areas" are united into one symbol when they are no farther then "OCR/Main/Symbol Rects/Max Diacritic Distance" vertically. Increase or decrease it to match your font size. Default 32 is around 8 real pixels, so it should be sufficient unless there are really big fonts used.

[MickRC]

I've been experimenting with your cool program lately, and would like to share my experience.
Source material is capture from digital Satellite TV, mpeg2, picture is sharp and clear, and so is the subtitle. Letters are white, on grey background. Input video resolution is 704x576.
First, I filter the picture in VirtualDub.
-resize to 4:3 aspect ratio
-mask unncessary areas with grey, using logoaway filter with solid fill option. Chosen color is 0x373737, color close to background of letters.
(First logoaway filter from top of the screen to top of first line of subtitles, second logoaway filter from bottom of 1st line of subs to top of 2nd line of subs, third from bottom of 2nd line of subs to bottom of the screen. Fourth and fifth mask left and right of where subs appear.)
Why? Well, I'm interrested only in subtitles, and that is what I want AVISubDetector to see. It gives OCR an easier job, less artefacts and resulting ripped subtitle has less garbage in it. :)

Then, using frame server option in VirtualDub, I load filtered video in AVISubDetector.
Options that are different than default are:
-settings-crop
-Drop Values-Shift 4
-Blocks-Value 780
-DLC 17
-L/RMB 60
-OCR-Main-Clearing settings-Alternative base, unchecked all three of Remove open Area From Text Mask, and (020) Match Text Mask to Outline Mask. (I guess that in theory this is used for removing garbage from the picture, but in practice they remove normal letters as well. So, I don't use them, sry.)
-OCR-Main-OCR Setting-Required Similarity 95%.


Once I defined all symbols, I started to use REMOVE Unknown-All. And Required Similarity to 90%.

And now it is pure pleasure to watch your great program in action!

[MickRC]

Originally posted by Shalcker

"Areas" are united into one symbol when they are no farther then "OCR/Main/Symbol Rects/Max Diacritic Distance" vertically. Increase or decrease it to match your font size. Default 32 is around 8 real pixels, so it should be sufficient unless there are really big fonts used.

Well, this works for small letters, like i. Connecting | and . to create i. Here I need to connect capital S with small \/ on top of it. Distance between those two areas is even smaller than distance on i. I've changed Max Diacritics Distance, even to the extremes like 2 and 100. Still can't define it properly.

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by MickRC
Well, this works for small letters, like i. Connecting | and . to create i. Here I need to connect capital S with small \/ on top of it. Distance between those two areas is even smaller than distance on i. I've changed Max Diacritics Distance, even to the extremes like 2 and 100. Still can't define it properly.
Oh... now as you mentioned that i can see it too. Guess since they are in a different horizontal "stripe" they are never checked for proximity... Will fix it today. :)

[MickRC]

Originally posted by Shalcker
Well, you can also deinterlace using avisynth before feeding such source to AVISubDetector, if i get you right... or tweak detection settings if by "interlaced" you mean something different...



By interlaced I mean really in interlace.
The way subs appear is something like this:
Frame 1: No Subs
Frame 2: Subs partially appear. Every second horizontal line is presented.
Frame 3: Subs are OK, solid, looking the way they should look

Some appear like this:
Frame 1: No Subs
Frame 2: Subs are solid

But, when there are 2 lines of subtitles, they can appear like this
Frame 1: No Subs
Frame 2: Lower line of subtitle is solid. Upper is partial, horizonatal lines
Frame 3: Both lines are solid


AVISubDetecor works well with 1st and 2nd example, but not with 3rd. If I don't set "Skip Change if Distance is Less" to 0, I get only lower line of subs. And when I set it to 0, I get two subtitles, at frames 2 and 3. And subtitle on frame 2 in only partial,useless, and have to delete it manually later. In this case, OCR is needed on frame 3, not 2.

Tryed all sorts of Deinterlace filters in VirtualDub, still couldn't get it right.

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by MickRC
By interlaced I mean really in interlace.
...
Tryed all sorts of Deinterlace filters in VirtualDub, still couldn't get it right.

Try AviSynth with this script (create text file with AVS extension after installing avisynth):
-- cut --
AVISource("path\to\your.avi",audio=false)
TDeint(mode=1)
BlendBob()
ConvertTORGB24()
-- cut --
Then open it in AVISubDetector (or VirtualDub(Mod), if you prefer it that way).
That's what i use for most of my interlaced sources.

BlendBob and TDeint can be downloaded here:
http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/
just put dlls into plugins folder of AviSynth.

[MickRC]

Now is that upper line very transparent, can't OCR it. Changed settings and experimented. But thx for deinterlace tip!

[konik]

Hi,I used AVISub Detector on divx movie and I get signs like this:
1
00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:17,240
! Frame=1729:DLC=19;MED=171;MBC=21;LBC=6881348;MBX=7;LMB=174;RMB=424;

2
00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:22,600
! Frame=1961:DLC=8;MED=246;MBC=29;LBC=6881348;MBX=1;LMB=114;RMB=480;
3
00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:22,720
* Frame=2065:DLC=8;MED=251;MBC=29;LBC=6881348;MBX=4;LMB=114;RMB=488;

What's that?
How can I get words from it?
And last time why are end of line #2 and start of #3 same?Both are
00:01:22,600
I think it will not work properly!
Thanks for help!

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by konik
Hi,I used AVISub Detector on divx movie and I get signs like this:
1
00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:17,240
! Frame=1729:DLC=19;MED=171;MBC=21;LBC=6881348;MBX=7;LMB=174;RMB=424;

What's that?
Frame decision data. Generally "Automatic Mode" is used to gather subtitle timing data to type words later in whatever subtitle editing program you like.

How can I get words from it?
If you need words, you either type them manually (in Manual Mode) or use OCR (in OCR Mode - you'll still have to type letters manually a few times).


And last time why are end of line #2 and start of #3 same?
Both are
00:01:22,600

That's because program percieves that there is a subtitle change and there aren't any frames without subtitles between them (you can see that by * (subtitle change) mark instead of ! (subtitle start)).

[konik]

Originally posted by Shalcker
If you need words, you either type them manually (in Manual Mode) or use OCR (in OCR Mode - you'll still have to type letters manually a few times).


Hi,thanks for answer,but I thought if it can rip subtitles from movie(I meant rip them with words and exact time) to be ready for translate in other program? Is it possible? I'm noob in that!

konik

[MickRC]

Originally posted by konik
Hi,thanks for answer,but I thought if it can rip subtitles from movie(I meant rip them with words and exact time) to be ready for translate in other program?

konik

Yes, it can rip words and exact timing. To rip words, you have to use OCR option. Then you'll have to define found symbols as letters. Some more than once.
Program has lots of options, and no manual. Take your time and experiment until you get it right. And one other thing, current version is known to freeze after some time. Then you have to save subtitle, load program again, set it up and continue ripping.

[Krizzz989]

I'm new to this, How can I ignore the inside of letters? Thanks in advance. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/krizzzopolis/dot.png

[Joe_smish]

What does this program do exactly? can it remove subtitles from avi files??

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by Joe_smish
What does this program do exactly? can it remove subtitles from avi files??
No, removing hard-burned subs from avi is quite difficult and there is no program for that yet as far as I know.

This tool is used to produce softsubs (text files with timecodes) based on hard-burned subs.

[Joe_smish]

oohh ok.. Thanks. :) I hope there is one of those programs for removing hard code subs soon. They got there somehow and arent a part of the original picture, so there must be a way to get them out as well; I would think anywyas, I dont know too much about this stuff.

[johner23]

And what about video filters? See an example above.

---> http://compression.ru/video/subtitles_removal/index_en.html

They are not capable to remove some kind of permanent subtitles from the movie?

Of course, the results will be not 100% perfect and the video get some "defects" after the operation too.

But, at least, the subs were be removed, I hope.

best regards

johner

[johner23]

Hi, Shalcker.

I have one more doubt about ASD.

I was ripping one AVI hardsubbed subtitle movie, in manual mode.

It takes me more than 2 hour, because this movie was VERY big.

I use to save the stats, stop some minutes to rest and continue. I save stats 3 times. When I finished typing the letters and go to save srt, ASD crash and I lost everything. :eek:

What should I do to avoid those crashes?

I think that saving only the status was enough to save my all my work after that. But, when I try to open the status in ASD, the scanning start from beginning, not the point where I stopped before !!

Any help will be apreciated.

Thanks in advance.

[Shalcker]

Originally posted by johner23
I use to save the stats, stop some minutes to rest and continue. I save stats 3 times. When I finished typing the letters and go to save srt, ASD crash and I lost everything. :eek:

What should I do to avoid those crashes?
Press "Save everything marked for AutoSave" on Project tab at intermediate points (that also happens when you press "Stop", but doesn't happen when you "Pause")... and certainly mark subtitles to be autosaved - then partial work will be saved in project directory and they will also be saved when you close program.
Or just save subtitles from "Subtitles" tab.


I think that saving only the status was enough to save my all my work after that. But, when I try to open the status in ASD, the scanning start from beginning, not the point where I stopped before !!
Stats are only used to speed up frame decisions (no subtitle/subtitle/subtitle change) in case you need to redo it or change some detection/change thresholds without reprocessing each frame. Actual work is only saved as subtitles.

And last processed point is not saved anywhere but in subtitles - so you'll need to go to subtitles tab and set starting point from end of last subtitle there in case you'll need to continue (done by Right-clicking on required line and setting that frame as starting one).

[MickRC]

Shalcker, could you please fix that freezing issue?
Here is screenshot:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y112/MickRC/test2.jpg

And description:
I've found optimal settings, defined characters, loaded the AVI. Now, what I want is to leave ASD to process all frames and give me ripped subtitles.
So I press REMOVE Unkown-ALL and start ripping with Start (Full). All that I need to do is to leave ASD to work, come back after 3 hours and choose name for my newly ripped subtitles. That is in theory.
In practice, however, this never happens. More complicated picture is for OCR to analyze, sooner will ASD freeze up. As if someone pressed pause during analyzing. And ASD will stay blocked until I press OK. Then it moves on, but freezes again very soon when something complicated comes along. Then I have to shut down ASD, start it again, load partially ripped subtitles and resume with ripping. Later on, ASD freezes again...
For 45 minutes of material, I usually have to restart ASD for about 4 times. If movie is dark, ASD can rip subtitles in one go. But when more analyzing is needed, more it blocks and more restarting is also needed.

On the screenshot you can see how ASD is frozen when it should be ripping.
Cheers!

[Shalcker]

Yes, i know about this issue and i am working to fix it. Hopefully new version will be available somewhere next week.

BTW, judging from screenshot, if there is only one color of subtitles you should set these colors manually and turn off auto-color for faster OCR (color search is quite slow).

[MickRC]

Thx, you mean ejecting AUTO-COLOR button once first subtitle is found and color are analyzed?
One more thing- every time when rip subtitles, I change values under OCR submenu (Clearing Settings, Minimum Width, Height, Max Diacritics Distance, Required Similarity, Space Distance, Auto Color). Would it be possible that they are saved with Save Settings?

[ai4spam]

Shameless plug: have you tried the new SubRip? It's not as versatile as ASD, but is simpler to use and probably just as effective. See http://zuggy.wz.cz/redir.php?co=101 for a guide and a quick look at what it can do. Comments are welcome in the SubRip topic http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=93680

Also, I'm trying to modify the DeLogo VirtualDub filter to work with the bitmaps I save in SubRip for subtitle removal. Unfortunately, I'm having trouble debugging it (as in, I have no idea how to do it, other than popping up error message dialogs), and although I had it somewhat working at some point (I managed to break it in the meantime), I couldn't get it to work in the main window, it only worked in preview mode from the filter properties. I think there's some problem with passing parameters to/from the filter, but I don't know enough to solve the problem. Can anyone help? Please send me a PM if you can.

Thanks.

[ChiffaFox]

What's happened with Shalker? His page responds with "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" message... :( Guys, can anybody help me with any documentation on AVISubDetector?

[Shalcker]

What's happened with Shalcker? His page responds with "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded" message... :(
Well... omake.ru is a site we share with quite a number of people... it worked fine before for a few years, now i guess either one of them used too much (and limit was around 20 GBytes per month) or people just forgotten to pay to extend the service... or maybe it's a temporal glitch... we'll see, hopefully it'll be fixed next week.

Either way, program is also available at http://web.etel.ru/~shalcker/ (but without sources, as there is only one megabyte available there).

As for documentation... ask, and i'll answer any question.

[ChiffaFox]

Thanks for your answer. :) But to say about questions... Can you just tell me, what to do step by step to extract and OCR subtitles?

There are so many settings and parameters in AVISubDetector - I've lost in there completely... :(

[ericf]

Yeah, I've tried to understand some of what has been discussed in the earlier thread about the settings but I guess I failed in most respects.
I do have the ability to use the levers in the settings window but I never used the numerical values at the bottom before. I don't get the "number of lines/blocks" explanations either.
Sorry.
Documentation of manual/OCR modes would be very welcome.
ericf

[Shalcker]

Yeah, I've tried to understand some of what has been discussed in the earlier thread about the settings but I guess I failed in most respects.
I do have the ability to use the levers in the settings window but I never used the numerical values at the bottom before. I don't get the "number of lines/blocks" explanations either.
Let's see... How about this - each time there is block/line exceeding threshold, their counter is incremented by 1. Each time there is a break between blocks/lines (one or more below threshold) counter is decremented by 1. Is this easier to get? :)

Blocks/lines above threshold are marked as yellow (in color modes), and once counter exceeds threshold for them ("Block Count" for blocks, "Line Count" for lines) they turn green.
Blocks/lines above threshold but right after "break" are marked as red to indicate possible "decrement".

Once you see green block you can be sure that line with this block is above "Block Count" (and thus counted in "Line Count"), and once you see green line you can be sure that this subtitle is "detected" (line counter is also saved as "DLC" for detecting subtitle changes later).

As for OCR... which questions do you think this documentation should cover? :)

[ericf]

For OCR: do I have to do anything at all to make it work? I've tried it before on Win 98 and I always got stuck on the same characters again and again. I have tried to read the information here but I'm not computer-language literate so I guess much of it goes above my head. The OCR read Everything as subtitles: Things around the subtitles, inside the subtitles, far outside the subtitles...

To tell the truth I've only tried it a couple of times but with so many checkboxes that I don't have the slightest idea of what they do, I'm at a loss. I don't know the meaning of Mask in this program so I don't know what to do. I've only recently started to use Win XP but in Win 98 the OCR kept crashing. Also, It seems I have to use the resolution 1024x768, oterwise I can't see what the text on the button to the right of the Clear-Ignore points button. It starts with Pa, Mabye it's Pause?

When the subs are on an old TV-show AVI with fuzzy subs, what do I do when the program substitutes a with o and a with s, F with i and so on?
How do I delete symbols added to the program? How do I delete all symbols?

As you can read I'm all confused about this.
I imagine that may others are as well.

Using Manual mode is what I've done up until now. I have found that I can use the checkboxes at the bottom of the settings window for making adjustments to subtitlechecking. I always used the levers on the 3 video windows before. I've no idea what the preprocessing color checkboxes but I've found that unchecking the T (black) box and the one without a symbol does help the subtitle check in the program.

So, please, what do I do with the OCR when it doesn't recognize the letters for what they really are?
ericf

EDIT: With OCR auto settings it seems like there are only a few problems with very clear subtitles. I'd like a few hints as to how to set the controls for fuzzy/clear subs so I can change them as I need to, though.
Thanks.
ericf

[ericf]

OK. Problem: I have a video with fuzzy subs.
When I press start after pressing OCR (experimental) the video plays past at least 5 subtitles until it comes to a very clear subtitle with black outline. When it stops, it just stops. No asking for characters to write into a symbol matrix. (note: Must be because it has auto-ocr on at the beginning, right?)
But then, sometimes it does get the small fuzzy subs and does open the symbol window for me to write in the letters.

Any idea why it works sometimes and not always? Are there any particular settings that will enable me to always have the symbols window open upon the unclear subtitles?
Edit: Even on clear subtitles it seems that the symbol window doesn't open much of the time. Then we have the fact that much of the time only half the symbols are detected, some are blanked out. How do I make all letters seen in the symbol adding window? End edit.

Also, the Alternatives: Auto-clolor, auto-ocr and auto-search.
It seems like the program does auto-search even though I have unchecked it. I need to check that the text is correctly read by the program as it reads and that is problematic. I get 5 small graphics of the subtitle area at the bottom left but most of the time they are so small that I can't read the text. Can I make those graphics bigger?
Edit:
When changing resolution to 1024x768 I got the images to get big.
So how do I use those 5 graphics? When I click on them I get a reaction but I only have one that seems to get all the letters. How do I make sure the program reads that way? It's the one that is black and white. Is it possible?
End Edit.

AVS scripts: I do have some mpg files that I'd like to search for subtitles. I have seen some of the script ideas you have put up here and in the old thread but how about putting up a few that might work with most AVI/Xvid/MKV/MPG files?

I do realize I'm asking a lot but it's a great program when used in Manual mode (I've always done that since I check the subs visually to make suer none are missed) but I'd like to start using it with the OCR function as well. When the subs are very clear it seems to be OK (apart from some problems with the symbols window that doesn't always open on unknown subs) but it seems like the program does loose most functions but OCRing in some cases. I worked with the program for about 3 hrs last night and sometimes I had to just shut it down because the only area I could watch was the main part of the OCR area with the Clearing Settings. When clicking on the other parts of the program nothing happended.

Also, the symbol matrix seems to have a few problems. I tried to change the corresponding letter on a few of those symbols I inputted because I had made a couple of mistakes but when I clicked on the symbol I wanted to change the whole set of symbols moved baco to the top and I couldn't change them. If I saved the matrix and ordered it and then opened the saved matrix, I could make the changes.
Edit: Attempting the edit thing now but it only works on some symbols, not on the whole matrix.I have 35 symbols in it right now but I can't do anything abbout the symbols after symbol no. 33 (it's in the bottom part of the window right now). Is there a need for there to be whole lines of symbols to be able to edit them? The up and down lever on the right keeps blinking dark/light during the editing as well. Is that indication that something is wrong?

The window on the right bottom of the program in OCR mode where the text is written has an OK button on the left for oking what the program has OCR-ed. But it also has a button that says OCR. Its text it fat black while the other buttons are thin black. Nothing happens when I push that button. If I get the wron OCR, isn't that for changing the OCRed symbols or something? Could you explain that area a little bit? The clear ignore-points and Build Masks part as well?
How do I clear the symbols matrix without closing the program?
End Edit.

That's it for now.
Thanks.
ericf

[ericf]

How do I make the OCR recognize subs that are white without a border?
ericf

[ericf]

Another thing:
QUOTE
"Try AviSynth with this script (create text file with AVS extension after installing avisynth):
-- cut --
AVISource("path\to\your.avi",audio=false)
TDeint(mode=1)
BlendBob()
ConvertTORGB24()
-- cut --
Then open it in AVISubDetector (or VirtualDub(Mod), if you prefer it that way).
That's what i use for most of my interlaced sources.

BlendBob and TDeint can be downloaded here:
http://www.avisynth.org/warpenterprises/
just put dlls into plugins folder of AviSynth." UNQUOTE

I put the DLL files into the pluginfolder and put the path to my avi in the script. All that happens it that AVISubDetector opens the script and starts OCRing the text file.
What am I doing wrong?
When I put the avi and avs right on C:\ I get a message saying Script Error: there is no function named "TDeint".
Also, in the brackets at the end after the avi information it says: , line 2).
Is that something that causes trouble?
Thanks.
ericf

[ericf]

I found that I can't use AVS scripts in Avisubdetector because all my avis' get flipped vertically.

Using this script:

AVISource("path\to\your.avi",audio=false)
TDeint(mode=1)
BlendBob()
ConvertTORGB24()

with FlipVertical()

doesn't help.

Does anyone know what is wrong?
Can you help me?
Is it a problem with Xvid? If so, how do I get by it?
Thanks.
ericf