Issue Compressing H.264``

2006-06-23 07:11:57 pm

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I'm using Mediacoder http://mediacoder.sourceforge.net/ to encode DV video I captured to H.264 at 2000 kbps. Whenever I try to encode a video over 2GB, the file is unable to finish (I have 2GB of RAM and am assuming this may be the issue). In any case, what program do you guys recommend using to encode the DV video I captured?

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ballofsnow

2006-06-23 09:20:13 pm

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In any case, what program do you guys recommend using to encode the DV video I captured?

Avisynth and Megui.

Weatherton

2006-06-23 09:36:48 pm

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Hmm, I don't mean to sound dense but I read through a lot of the avisynth literature and saw nothing about how to transcode my video files. Is there, perhaps, a GUI you can recommend? Also, is that x.264 just a control panel for codec settings? If so, how can I use x.264 to transcode my files?

*sorry for being a newb*

ballofsnow

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ballofsnow: 2006-06-23 10:08:18 pm

2006-06-23 10:01:41 pm

hehe, no you're not dense. Avisynth is not easy to learn at all. I just wanted to see your reaction. Wink

What kind of source file are you working with? You captured the dv to what format? Avi?

edit- sorry, I asked the questions above assuming you even wanted to learn avisynth. If what you really want is some big payware media encoder type thing.. then I can't help you with that.

Weatherton

2006-06-23 10:32:19 pm

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

Yeah, my DV files are .avi . Are you saying there is no good freeware transcoder? I thought mediacoder was pretty good for my purposes (other than this 2GB issue I've run into).

ballofsnow

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ballofsnow: 2006-06-24 12:30:11 am

2006-06-24 12:29:37 am

Well, you'd use avisynth to make a script file so that you can use Megui, which is an excellent H.264 encoder, to make your videos.

If you're into video encoding, you should give avisynth a try. And really.. once you get the hang of it, it's not THAT complicated.

This would be the pseudocode for a script. A script is simply a text file with an avs extension instead of txt. Notepad is used to edit it.

- load the dv footage
- load audio if it's separate, probably not.
- deinterlace it
- trim it (remove sections/frames), optional of course
- resize, optional.

And oh wow.. that's it. Tongue

It's up to you if you want to try.

btw, are you weatherton from the-elite.net ?

Weatherton

2006-06-24 04:02:50 am

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

I'll try to read through and write the script if I get time later on this evening.

PS. Yeah, I'm weatherton from t-e.n and also mk64

ballofsnow

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ballofsnow: 2006-06-24 04:58:25 pm

2006-06-24 04:58:08 pm

Make sure to look at the Recording & Compression FAQ at the top of this forum. It has a section for encoding from dvd sources, but you can adapt that for dv footage. Note that any deinterlacing section you see on this website will be geared towards game footage. If you're deinterlacing a movie, or footage of real life, then you should use different deinterlacers.