Using VirtualDub to improve your AMV conversions.

[deepakrr]

i would like to add the following.

for people who experience skipping problems in videos, try the following -

1. For avi files with 29 fps, use medium fps setting in amv converter.

2. For avi files with 25 fps, use high/low fps setting in amv converter

hope this helps

[booboo773]

Virtual Dub is AWESOME! So is the how to guide! The overall video quality has improved 100%. No more black bars on the top and bottom and the image is a lot clearer. Thanks!

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[tadad1]

booboo773, It may take a little longer but I think the effort is well worth it, glad you found it helpful

[guivarrichio]

Tada1, hey man, how are you doing?...

I'm back after 1 year....

best regards

[ALiBEY]

Originally Posted by tadad1";p=&quot

k.r.i.s.s.i,
For 1.5 LCD you need to change the Resize Filter setting to 128x96 for widescreen or 128x128 for full screen.
If you are going to use 128x128 you need to crop more of the sides as well otherwise the picture will become to compressed and the image will be tall and thin.
Here are some settings I use for 128x128. Copy them into notepad and save. Then rename the file 128x128.vcf. then you can load the settings into VirtualDub by pressing CTRL+L on your keyboard
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Hi mate,

can you make those settings for smoother video on glacier 2", 220*176, id be thankful.

[Th3_uN1Qu3]

Originally Posted by ALiBEY

Hi mate,

can you make those settings for smoother video on glacier 2", 220*176, id be thankful.

Read this: http://www.mympxplayer.org/howto-the...mv-vt6858.html

Hopefully tadad1 will help me update the sticky as well.

[santiagokq]

With all due respect, I think my method is much easier and faster. With ffdshow, you can apply all these filters on-the-fly (while converting), without the need for pre-processing; and obtaining the same quality:
http://www.mympxplayer.org/howto-mak...ng-vt7156.html

[Psycogeek]

Tadad1.
in virtual dub you prefer to deinterlace anything that NEEDS deinterlacing prior to a resize of any sort, as resizing will have already blended the feilds together.
this could be dependant on other settings.

ORDER of the filters Can be important, depending on what your trying to accomplish, the move-up move down will order things.

[dvd4me]

Originally Posted by santiagokq";p=&quot

With all due respect, I think my method is much easier and faster. With ffdshow, you can apply all these filters on-the-fly (while converting), without the need for pre-processing; and obtaining the same quality:
http://www.mympxplayer.org/howto-mak...ng-vt7156.html

It's true, no need to get the huge avi file and also a super cool bonus is the perfect sync of Mpeg2 sat streams converting.
I'm talking after a week of various tryouts to get in sync audio of converted mpeg2 sat streams, none of the glorious apps, including Vdub in doing this conversion properly, except for Mpeg Streamclip or Alive Video Convertor, the last one you can rebuild the Mpeg2 stream with no more errors in it and you can use Vdub after to reconvert with no more sync issues.

But why pass thru 2-3 conversions and get the same result when ffdshow and AMV converting tool can do directly from the mpeg2 stream!!!

Super great, someone should try to make a guide and also this method should be sticky.

[freddyzdead]

@tadad1:
I am using ancient (and free) tools such as DVD2AVI to make extremely good DVD rips into 700 MB AVI. I use Xvid 2-pass encode, which takes longer but is more than worth the wait.

I'm amazed that you're using VirtualDub like this, so much is unnecessary when the target is such a tiny screen. I make Xvid movies for my Pocket PC that are typically 70-75 MB for 2-hour movie. The picture is no good on a big screen, but quite watchable on the tiny one. And the PPC has a much bigger screen than those on our Chipods.

I would never encourage anyone to make uncompressed AVIs, it just makes no sense. There are many low-loss codecs you can use.

Also, in your example, the aspect of the output picture looks wrong, and I seriously doubt the wisdom of using so many filters. Especially the sharpen one, which is going to have the main effect of increasing noise. This just makes more work for the final encoder, and also increases the filesize. You don't need sharpening for such a tiny screen; you would never see the difference.