ffdshow

[Neojag]

Do you find any advantage on using FFdshow over the DivX 3 - 5 codecs? Besides the filters, that is...
I've had some problems with XviD files so i just disabled ffdshow for XviD, but DivX seems to be working fine through it and i wonder if it has any advantades over the DivX codec :)

[vivrantpig]

its just easier.. u dont have to worry about getting the right codeccs.. blablabla.. :)

[Badaro]

Originally posted by Neojag
Do you find any advantage on using FFdshow over the DivX 3 - 5 codecs? Besides the filters, that is...
I've had some problems with XviD files so i just disabled ffdshow for XviD, but DivX seems to be working fine through it and i wonder if it has any advantades over the DivX codec :)

1) It registers more MPEG4 FourCCs then the standard DivX;
2) Lots of options to play around;
3) It's not as processor-intensive as DivX (very important if you are below 1GHz like me);
4) Some pretty interesting and useful built-in functions, like the de-interlacer and the overlay.

[]s Badaro

[Galway no Sora]

And, anyone here know how to rip the DVD subtitle using ffdshow ? I owned the DVD, and want to make backup but it seem complicated to rip it with the subtitle [english].

[Kane]

Use Vobsub.

[Kazuya]

Btw, what its overlay?
Also, when i tried to put my own made subtitles to a movie virtualdub (with the subtitler filter) made the subtitles really small (almost impossible to read) and it didn't matter what size of letter i used in the subtitles (with substation alpha). Any way to solve this problem?

[Kane]

>Btw, what its overlay?

The overlay is a hardware accelerated 2d surface IIRC

>Also, when i tried to put my own made subtitles to a movie virtualdub (with the subtitler filter) made the subtitles really small (almost impossible to read) and it didn't matter what size of letter i used in the subtitles (with substation alpha). Any way to solve this problem?

I don't bother doing it that way. It cause more problems than I could be bothered with. I just rip the subs and leave then in the same directory as the film for MPlayer Classic to pick up.

[Kazuya]

Yeah i do that sometimes. But there are some movies i like to see in my standalone dvd and im the only one who can understand english.

[Galway no Sora]

I don't bother doing it that way. It cause more problems than I could be bothered with. I just rip the subs and leave then in the same directory as the film for MPlayer Classic to pick up.
So, that only happend if the subtitle in the same folder. What I want is to merge the subtitle into the movie, is that possible ? I want to make it into mpeg, NOT into VCD.

[Badaro]

Originally posted by Neojag
Do you find any advantage on using FFdshow over the DivX 3 - 5 codecs? Besides the filters, that is...
I've had some problems with XviD files so i just disabled ffdshow for XviD, but DivX seems to be working fine through it and i wonder if it has any advantades over the DivX codec :)

One thing I forgot to mention. If you copy xvid.dll to the ffdshow folder, you can tell it to use either the standard decoder (libavcoded) or xvid's for each format. :) Check the screenshot.

[]s Badaro

[Neojag]

Yeah, discovered that yesterday ^_^
btw, what exactly are the libavcodecs?

[Badaro]

Originally posted by Neojag
Yeah, discovered that yesterday ^_^
btw, what exactly are the libavcodecs?

IIRC it's a decoder library from FFmpeg project:

http://www.ffmpeg.org

[]s Badaro

[Kane]

>So, that only happend if the subtitle in the same folder. What I want is to merge the subtitle into the movie, is that possible ? I want to make it into mpeg, NOT into VCD.

.....Why? Mpeg 1 files are poorly compressed and low quality...

[Kazuya]

As i said sometimes people want to see the encoded movie in a stand alone dvd player, and until the divx players with dvd included be popular people will have to stick to vcds.

[Noxious Ninja]

Originally posted by Lord Kane
>So, that only happend if the subtitle in the same folder. What I want is to merge the subtitle into the movie, is that possible ? I want to make it into mpeg, NOT into VCD.

.....Why? Mpeg 1 files are poorly compressed and low quality...

Also there is the fact that VCD uses MPEG for it's video... if you look on a VCD, there should be a rather large .DAT file, I forget where exactly, that contains the video. Copy it to your HD, rename it to .mpg, and it works fine.

[Galway no Sora]

.....Why? Mpeg 1 files are poorly compressed and low quality...
For some reason, the FFX movie ripped from the DVD have better quality in mpeg. If I burn it into SVCD or VCD the quality lower than it has before.

[Kane]

>For some reason, the FFX movie ripped from the DVD have better quality in mpeg. If I burn it into SVCD or VCD the quality lower than it has before.

The FFX movie ripped will be MPEG-2 I'd think. S/VCD is MPEG-1

[Kazuya]

---the FFX movie ripped from the DVD have better quality in mpeg. If I burn it into SVCD or VCD the quality lower than it has before.

Actually converting mpeg to .dat and .dat to mpeg doesn't alter the quality of the encoded movie as it doesn't reencode it. It just change the name of the file. Thats all.

Maybe you had a mpeg2 and convert it to vcd (mpeg1) Thats why you see a difference in the quality. Or the encoded mpg movie had a better resolution than the needed in a vcd.

[Galway no Sora]

Uh, yeah ... sorry forgot to mentioned that. I didn't realized it until I check the file that it was converted into mpeg2. This what I want, converting DVD into mpeg2.

[Kazuya]

We are in the same place. Both of us want to merge subtitles in a mpg but dont know why. the onyl one i know of is virtual dub but as i said the subtitler filter makes the subtitles really really small. Even if i change the size of the font when doing the subtitles.

[Noxious Ninja]

To convert DVD into MPEG2, all you need to do is a direct stream copy of the video, and transcode the audio from AC3-->MP3 if you want.