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Old 28th July 2009, 10:19   #21  |  Link
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SeeMoreDigital - nearly missed the links at the bottom of the post, had quick look, going to have to set aside time to study the info there, looks like it will clarify a lot of what I need to know.

My DVD player is a cheap "Philips DVP3120", (I should learn to be clearer)

I found I had the same problem with Video convertion as I did with Networks, a lot of history, specs and revisions, mixed with varied comformity, all working as a moving train crash

Internet searches did not realy help, most of the keywords I could use brought up commercial software rather than information, and trawling through them, is both time consuming and frustrating.

As a personal point, has this thred helped anyone other than me, just interested ..... Cheers to every one
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Old 28th July 2009, 10:24   #22  |  Link
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SeeMoreDigital - nearly missed the links at the bottom of the post, had quick look, going to have to set aside time to study the info there, looks like it will clarify a lot of what I need to know.

My DVD player is a cheap "Philips DVP3120", (I should learn to be clearer)

I found I had the same problem with Video convertion as I did with Networks, a lot of history, specs and revisions, mixed with varied comformity, all working as a moving train crash

Internet searches did not realy help, most of the keywords I could use brought up commercial software rather than information, and trawling through them, is both time consuming and frustrating.

As a personal point, has this thred helped anyone other than me, just interested ..... Cheers to every one
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Old 1st August 2009, 17:48   #23  |  Link
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Hi evry body, just cheaking in

sorry about the double post, my fault - oops.

I tried MPEG4 Modifier, did what it said on the tin, GSPOT, said 16:9, however, my media player did not read the tin, the best I got was a play back that was nearer 3:1 or 4:1, a narrow band accross the middle of the screen, totaly out of aspect, well I was warned about such things happening. but now I know for certain.

Any way - shortly after all my playback decoders went wackadoodle, and would not play video on anything, with all the messing with programes I've done over the past few weeks, I decided on a fresh install of Windows. and re-install of programes. ( Always fun)

Any advice an whats the best MPEG2 codec(encoder), I have been using the one in "nero vision express 2 - (nero ver6), but its encoding at 2 times the file time. there is no update for it. And I sure it does not use Petium4 code. I know some are faster, but I do need to set DVD standard bit rates for the video.

So to all the people in England, enjoying the summer weather ( for every one else you have to be here).
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Old 1st August 2009, 22:09   #24  |  Link
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What does GSpot show for the following dvbt files you have, before and after PVAStrumento

before (source files)
720x576 - SAR - PAR - DAR
704x576 - SAR - PAR - DAR
544x576 - SAR - PAR - DAR
Others.. - SAR - PAR - DAR


after (converted files)
720x576 - SAR - PAR - DAR
704x576 - SAR - PAR - DAR
544x576 - SAR - PAR - DAR
Others.. - SAR - PAR - DAR
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Old 2nd August 2009, 13:08   #25  |  Link
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Err.. Ive bin doing a cleanup, and getting rid of the temp and test files I was using.

But as I recall ....

Before 720 x 576 - square pixel (DAR PAR, 4:3)

After "720 x 576 - PAR 16:9" and "720 x 576 - DAR 16:9" there is no SAR setting in MPEG4 Modifier v1.4.4.

Personaly I blame my cheep player, when I say I was warned it was that I was told not all players, (esp the cheep chines ones), conform to displaying correctly, as they dont always take notice of the settings in files.

I still dont have a spec for the AVI stream.

I may give it another try when I get my apps and codecs sorted properly.
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Old 2nd August 2009, 15:33   #26  |  Link
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PVAstromento doesn't change the DAR/SAR/PAR it simply changes the container by remuxing the streams in a different format.

It is possible that you recorded a multiDAR/SAR broadcast (usual eg film in 169, commercials in 43) and that tricked the software used to cut out the latter.
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After "720 x 576 - PAR 16:9" and "720 x 576 - DAR 16:9" there is no SAR setting in MPEG4 Modifier v1.4.4.
SAR is the same thing as PAR...

Please try the following (MPEG-4 (ASP) 720x576 with 16:9 aspect ratio signalling) sample in your player and report back: -

http://www.one.seemoredigital.net/Do..._AC3_in_AVI.7z


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SeeMoreDigital - the pic was fine thank you, displayed 16:9

No audio but I only got a sterio player.

on another matter I got the latest version of tmpgenc when I tried to recencode a file with a max frames of GOP of 8 I got his message in the logg file "Multiplex buffer underflow!! packet: 143711", but did not get any errors when I let it do a stream copy.
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SeeMoreDigital - Ive down loaded - MPEG_Mediator_1.5.7z twice from your link!
MPEG_Mediator_1.5.7z: CRC failed in MPEGmediator (v1.5).exe. The file is corrupt. - from Winrar 3.40.

tried using MPEG_Mediator_SE_v1.4.5.9 - from a 720 x 576 ar 16:9 ,it output 720 x 416 set for 16:9 I "gess" it calcs this to get a stable 16:9, I is getting

(where' s smily for pulling out your hair)
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SeeMoreDigital - Ive down loaded - MPEG_Mediator_1.5.7z twice from your link!
MPEG_Mediator_1.5.7z: CRC failed in MPEGmediator (v1.5).exe. The file is corrupt. - from Winrar 3.40.
Yep... It's corrupt alright

Thanks for letting me know. It should be working okay now
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Yep... It's corrupt alright

Thanks for letting me know. It should be working okay now
nope getting an NTL page saying not available ... I will try again tmoz.
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Ghitulescu - I was using a 720x576 16:9 clip cut from a BBC recording (no ads)

I use DVD patcher, to alter aspect ratios, if its iffy I will patch the whole file , not just the first header.

I noticed, an observation, that it tends to work the other way, programe in 4:3 addverts in 16:9, not set in stone though.
though somtimes there is a lag in the transition of the display, during the transistion between one and the other.
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nope getting an NTL page saying not available ... I will try again tmoz.
It's working now...
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It's working now...
Yes it is got no crc error, thank you, got to try it now.

with "7z" file I have to use MS-IE to download it, norm I use firefox, which tries to open the file in a page, just a note not a critic, lack of knowlage on my part I suspect.

Bin out of this bussiness way too long, chatching up....
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quicky - does anyone know if PVAStrumento corrects the audio sync to make it compatable with Avidemux 2.5, to produce a correctly synced output. cheers.
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I did get the 720 x 576 AR 16:9 going.........

As I thought it was the original Xvid codec I was using that mixed up the displaying of the picture correctly

I have tried two media players the first is a HDD player approx 3 years old, and did not play the AR-16:9 at 16:9, and crashed when I tried playing the file patched to DAR 4:3. the rest it played fine at I presume square pixel.

The second is a USB drive player that playes AVIs, that I got this year.
This played all the files at correct aspect, though it did produce flashes of horizontal banding, ( I'm sure theres a name for this )


Files -
1-fred avi- test.avi
Gspot "sez" -

720 x 576 Square Pixel. XviD ISO MPEG-4 , 1Mbps - Video,
sar 1.250 (5:4) - par 1.000 (1:1) - dar1.250 (5:4)

MPEG-1 Layer 3 , 48000Hz 128 kb/s tot , Stereo - Audio.

Patched Files -

2-fred avi- patched PAR 4:3 PAL - test.avi
3-fred avi- patched DAR 4:3 - test.avi
4-fred avi- patched PAR 16:9 PAL - test.avi
5-fred avi- patched DAR 16:9 - test.avi



Apps -

Avidemux 2.5 - "avidemux2_qt4.exe" - For Mpg -> Avi convertion ( available from SourceForge )

MPEG4Modifier v1.4.4 - to change / set the Apect Ratio.
( see post #20 on this thred for link.)

Thanks Every one
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