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11th July 2010, 22:18 | #1 | Link |
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Crop losing sound
I'm new to ripping DVD's and used [spam] to rip hundreds of my DVD's to AVI so I can easily access them through my TiVo.
Unfortunately, I used a single default aspect ratio for all of the movies, 700x400, 1200kbps video bitrate, 128kbps audio bitrate, MPEG4 video codec. Most of the movies have a black band top and bottom, and I wanted to use Avisynth to remove the bands. I tried a simple crop command, which did remove the bands, but the resulting AVI has no sound. Is there some trick to this? I just want to remove the bands and keep everything else the same. Last edited by Guest; 11th July 2010 at 23:11. Reason: 5 |
11th July 2010, 22:26 | #2 | Link |
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Please give more detailed information - exact Avisynth script, which application, what settings.
The only thing I can tell you for sure is this: the crop() command of Avisynth does keep audio intact. The error necessarily must be somewhere else.
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11th July 2010, 23:49 | #6 | Link |
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You joker
It does... But, for optimal quality, even if it is long to do that, he should start from his DVDs, not from his AVIs. btw, to have assign the same bitrate to all movies is bad....recode a maybe bad encoding may be more bad...
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12th July 2010, 00:35 | #8 | Link |
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Okay, so if assigning the same bitrate is bad, how do you get the right numbers? Is there a simple way to rip 6-700 DVD's to AVI?
I also just tried using VirtualDub to process the scripts, and it blew up the size of the file no matter what I tried. The scripts I've been trying are simple: AVISource("E:\Video\SciFi\Pitch Black.avi") Crop(0, 44, -0, -48) |
12th July 2010, 01:31 | #10 | Link |
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Well, your audio issue is strange and should be investigated, but that's not a problem here because you don't need to process audio at all. Your audio is already compressed.
Just mux it after to have processed the video. But I suggest you to use AVC to limit the quality loss. |
12th July 2010, 01:51 | #11 | Link |
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So, if I were you :
-identification of similar 'cropping values' videos Put all of them in the same folder -do a .bat launcher for each folder to write all the scripts ( avisource().deblock().crop() ) -after that put all in the same folder and make an other launcher to encode and remux As it is low res, it will be relatively fast to process, so you can use really high settings for the encoder with low quality based value (crf 17-18) |
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