Avs file and only 240 frames

[Joe Satriani]

Hi, I'm trying to compress The Godfather 2 using CCE 2.66.01.07 but whenever I load the .avs file, CCE only reads a movie (.d2v file) whose duration is 10 sec and frames ONLY 240.
This happens with every movie I try to backup!!

Everything is fine if I use DVD-RB, instead!

Any suggestion ??

Thanks in advance
Joe

[fccHandler]

Try opening the .avs in VirtualDub, it may reveal an Avisynth error message.

[Joe Satriani]

Originally posted by fccHandler
Try opening the .avs in VirtualDub, it may reveal an Avisynth error message. That's what I have done....(my experience comes from divx...I know these tricks as well :-) ) and got an error, so I downloaded the DGDecode.dll file again!
Now CCE loads the .avs file fine, but I get another error message: "Couldn't find appropriate video codec for YV12"...
Can anyone tell me why ??

Thanks!
Joe

[buzzqw]

install xvid !

BHH

[Joe Satriani]

Originally posted by buzzqw
install xvid !

BHH ?????????????????????????????????????????????????

[Axed]

The reason that person posted to install XviD is because it includes a YV12 decoder. Alternatively, you could also install the Helix YV12 (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=56972&highlight=helix+yv12) decoder if you dont want to install XviD.

[Boulder]

Use ConverttoYUY2() as the last item in your script. No need to let any codec do the colorspace conversion.

[Joe Satriani]

Thanks to everybody: that was the problem!!!
I only added "ConverttoYUY2()" to the .avs script to fix everything!

Thanks again
Joe

[ohhowhappy]

I'm having the same problem, but with a twist:

I first CCE'd the file and when I played the mpv -- I had no problems -- I realized that I needed to resize it. I generated an .avs with FitCD

AVISource("abcd.avi",audio=false)
LanczosResize(592,480,0,0,432,320)
AddBorders(64,48,64,48)
#Trim(0,39339).FadeOut(150)
ConvertToYUY2() # For VirtualDub or CCE

Now I'm getting the 240 frames error. When I load the avs into Vdub I get an error, can't decompress frame 0.

I've been able to use FitCD before with some success, and I haven't seen this before.

Thanks for your help.

[buzzqw]

may be the B frames lag...
try someting like trim(1,0)

BHH

[Boulder]

The error message means that you don't have the required codec.

[ohhowhappy]

thanks for responding.

Changing to Trim(1,0) didn't work.

If I don't have the required codec, wouldn't that have made it impossible for me to do the first encoding which I tried to improve on? Gspot tells me the codecs are installed, too.

LanczosResize(592,480,0,0,432,320)
AddBorders(64,48,64,48)
Trim(1,0)
ConvertToYUY2() # For VirtualDub or CCE

[Joe Satriani]

Originally posted by Boulder
The error message means that you don't have the required codec. Boulder is right!!!!! From my personal experience, the codec you have to use not to get the "240 frames error" is the SAME ONE you used with "DgIndex" to create the .d2v file: in other words, the .dll file you findhere (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Decoders/dgmpgdec121.zip)


Joe

[ohhowhappy]

the codec you have to use not to get the "240 frames error" is the SAME ONE you used with "DgIndex" to create the .d2v file

Thanks. Sorry if I'm being dense. I downloaded that file, and it contains the same files that I already have installed as part of my Avisynth setup. But are you suggesting that they are not being used? Again, what throws me is that I've never seen this error before when using .avs files in cce.

Here's the Gspot video info (it's a very low quality TV rip)

ideo Codec Type(e.g. "DIV3"): DIVX
Video Codec Name(e.g. "DivX 3, Low-Motion"): DivX 4 (OpenDivX)
Video Codec Status(e.g. "Codec Is Installed"): Codec(s) are Installed
Duration (hh:mm:ss): 00:26:14
Frame Count: 39340
Frame Width (pixels): 432
Frame Height (pixels): 320
Frame Aspect Ratio (e.g "1.3333"):
Frame Aspect Ratio (e.g. "4:3"):
Pixel Aspect Ratio ("SAR"):
Display Aspect Ratio ("DAR"): 1.350
Frames Per Second: 25fps
Video Bitrate (kbps): 2
MPEG-4 ("MPEG-4" or ""): MPEG-4

[Boulder]

If you feed the file directly to CCE, it uses DirectShow to decode it. If you open a file with Avisynth, you need a VfW-capable decoder. You don't have one installed and that's why you get the error.

If you can open the file (not the script) in WMP but not in VirtualDub, that's exactly the case. GSpot deals only with DirectShow.

Install DivX 5.2.1 and you should be ok.

[aiataga]

DirectShowSource("abcd.avi", 25, true, false, true)

can open your source with DirectShow w/o installing the right (divx3) codec

[Boulder]

DirectShowSource often gives more problems than it solves so AVISource is the best bet. You don't need to install the crappy hacked DivX3, DivX5 can decode all DivX content.