Endless Paradigm

For PSP encoding, XviD4PSP, try Quantizer 23-26 AVC.

nope just for pc

Asus M2N-SLI Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+(65W) Windsor 2.4GHz Socket AM2
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro
2x 1GB PC800 Dual Channel Memory
Geforce 7600GT x1 for right now
Dual 19in Wide Screen Monitors
Creative XtreamMusic X-FI Sound Card
320GB SATAII Hard Drive
2x 120mm Fans 1x 80mm fans
Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX Revolution Mouse
Allsop gaming mouse pad

think this is my 6th or so PC built by me

Ok, AutoGK is very self explanatory, and very easy to use. I suggest u use that if u haven't done any encoding before.


If u want to use MeGUI (imo best tool out there for encoding), then here is a basic outline of the procedure.

(if ur converting not from dvd, and something else instead, go to step 2, and skip step 3.)

1. Rip ur dvd onto HDD. Do this with DVD decrypter. Use IFO mode. If dvd dycryptor doesn't work, (some very new dvds have new protection technologies) then use rip4me.
2. Install MeGUI and update it, so u have all the newest tools.
3. Go to tools»dv2 creator. select the vob file u ripped previously that u want to convert. Select the audio tracks u want, hit queue. Close the dv2 creator, and in the que tab of MeGUI, click start, and wait for it to finish.
4. Go to tools»Avisynth Script creator. Under video input, load the dv2 file (or any other video input, such as divx). Change the cropping and resizing value is u want, Go to the filters tab, select "source is anime" if that's what it is. Click analyze and let it do it's job. If ur source is interlaced, under de-interlace, select TomsMoComp for best quality, but that requires ur output width and length both to be multiples of 4. Otherwise, use LeakKernal. change resize filter to lanczos. Click save when all that is done.
5. Back at the input tab, under video encoding, avisynth script, select the previously made one (if not done automatically for u) set/change ur video output, select ur codec, and profile, or make ur own profile, and then hit queue.
6. Under audio, do the same as for video previously. Hit queue.
7. Click on the queue tab, click start, and do something else while it encodes.
8. After it finishes, go to tools»muxer»mkv muxer (mp4 if u want to use that container instead, but mkv supports more stuff.) Select all your inputs, hit queue, go back to queue, and hit start. Wait until it finishes, and everything is done. :)

If u want subtitles, use the vobsubber tools under tools in megui. If u want chapters, under DVD decryptor, select the option to create a chapter file (ogm style) when decrypting, and then during the muxing stage, select the chapter file.


Ok, this is very messy and crappy, and no-one will probably understand what I'm going on about, but that's basically the general process of using MeGUI.

If that is way too complicated, just use AutoGK.

Cool guide im gonna try it later.

yeah yeah that's basicly what i did except at step 7 it didnt encode cause of an error. it was something else but now i did it again and it does this:

Log for job job1-1

Error:
MeGUI.AviSynthException: DirectShowSource: Could not open as video or audio.

Video returned:  "DirectShowSource: couldn't open file D:\simpsons\VTS_05_1.d2v:
Cannot play back the file.  The format is not supported."

Audio returned:  "DirectShowSource: couldn't open file D:\simpsons\VTS_05_1.d2v:
Cannot play back the file.  The format is not supported."

   at MeGUI.AviSynthClip..ctor(String func, String arg, AviSynthColorspace forceColorspace, AviSynthScriptEnvironment env)
   at MeGUI.AviSynthAudioEncoder.encode()
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The current job contains errors. Skipping chained jobs


i ripped one episode of a Simpsons DVD i have with dvd decryptor which seemed to work cause the preview window works...

ExBu Wrote:Cool guide im gonna try it later.

That's a VERY BASIC walkthrough of what to do, and i didn't actually expect anyone to use it... I wouldn't really classify it as a guide.

thanks for the compliment!

So yeah, I can write a better "guide" for u if u want, which will explain everything properly. It's likely to take like 3+ pages though.

its not too complicated i just hate when it doesn't work and it gives me bullchocolate instead of a solution

@Assassinator, its ok i know how to do most of this, thanks anyway.

Ge64, try installing ffdshow.  If you have it installed, open the video config, and make sure MPEG-2 isn't disabled.

One thing though - I'm surprised that there isn't a good app which allows you to split videos by chapters...
And MeGUI requires installing on the computer through a download - I hate that... (so I can't use it :( )