DVD2SVCD Newbie

[c-dub-]

I have to apologize in the beginning, I am new at this and will probably sound like an idiot...

I have 2 questions:

1. I use hauppauge usb2.0 external capture card to capture tv programs (mostly college football). I have successfully ecoded 2 full games but find that the edge around the picture is lost when I play it back on my dvd player (top, bottom, and both sides; about 1 inch is lost). I encode in 4:3 aspect ratio and that is what my player is set to show. Any help? I don't capture in 720 x 480 if that helps. I use cce 2.50 (trial version for now because I heard 2.6x is not as easy to use) and everything else is basically defaults.

2. The second question is when I don't deinterlace I have some mosquito noise (I think, it is the salt and pepper around players and objects). If I do deinterlace, it gets rid of all that noise and looks great, but tends to be a little blury on fast motion shots. I use blendfields because besides the blur it looks great! however, I don't like all the running backs and recievers looking like they are the flash (blurry streaks when the run fast). If anyone has any suggestions on how I can minimize the mosquito noise and avoid blurring as much as possible I would appreciate any help.

One last comment to the creators of dvd2svcd. Awesome job! the program is easy to use and is top notch quality! I am very impressed and will be sending a donation shortly! thanks a ton.

[Manngo]

Let's see:

1. Can be a playback problem, if you watch it on TV. Overscan area cuts the edges of the picture. In this case you can see the 'missing' parts when playing on computer. Solution: add borders in the avisynth script. Using the autofitcd plugin, you can manually set the size of the borders.

2. maybe someone else will give you some advice about deinterlacing. I don't know much about it ...

cheers
Manngo

[c-dub-]

Thanks manngo, that must be the problem because I can see the missing parts when playing the disc on a computer. I am not to skilled with avisynth, but I guess this is as good a time as any if I want to learn how to use it. I will give the autofitcd plugin a try.

[c-dub-]

I am trying to use the autofitcd plugin and whenever I go to the preview video (still picture) and then click on autofitcd I get the following error:

Directshowsource: could not open as audio or video

Video returned: "Directshowsource: couldn't open file :
An object or name was not found."

Audio returned: "Directshowsource: couldn't open file :
An object or name was not found."

(C:\program files\dvd2svcd\temp\preview.avs, line 4)


When I open the preview.avs it looks like this:

LoadPlugin"C:\PROGRA~1DVD2SVCD\AVISYN~1.5PL\Mpeg2dec\MPEG2D~1.DLL")
MPEG2Source("C:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\TEMP\preview.d2v")
# -= AviSynth v2.5.5.0 script by FitCD v1.2.4 =-
DirectShowSource("")
BicubicResize(688,400,0,0.6,9,0,704,410)
AddBorders(16,40,16,40)
Trim(2,2)
ConvertToRGB()

any ideas how I can correct this?

[Manngo]

DirectShowSource("")

This line should contain the avi file name and the path.
Are you sure, you opened the avi file, in the conversion tab?

[c-dub-]

I am actually trying to encode an mpeg2 file so that might be my problem. Is there anyway to use autofitcd with an mpeg file or is it limited to avi files?

[Manngo]

AVI2DVD was found out to convert AVIs to DVDs. Not mpeg. That's all.