I have asked many questions on this forum in search of answers and am happy to say that everybody has been very helpful. I have a video capture card that I use to record music videos. The codec I use is Huffyuv as it preserves the best video quality.
Now here are my problems:
1-Video is interlaced. I refered myself to 100fps.com for advice and have found a very good way to deinterlace (as outlined in "What to do next", 4b). This is REALLY time consuming. In order to apply filters I have to go into full processing mode and the resulting avi's are huge.
2-After the process, I want to encode MPEG2 files for eventual backup to DVD. I undersand that HC 0.15 is the best freeware encoder available, but am having difficulty using it. I created a basic avs file in notepad:
AviSource("MusicVidTest.avi")
and open with HCGUI_015.exe. It always crashes.
I'm not so worried about problem 1, but problem 2 is causing me problems. The other choice I have is not to encode to MPEG2, but rather some form of MPEG4 (DivX, Xvid, WMV etc.) but then when I author a DVD (with NeroVision) it will necessairly decompress and recompress to MPEG2 (right? I'm not entirely sure here)
I'm basically looking for a step by step guide as what to do with my captured avi file. If possible, I'd rather use freeware tools.
First, if you are going to burn these to DVD, then don't bother deinterlacing.
Interlaced video only appears bad on a computer monitor. A TV can play interlaced material with no problems.
If you use Nerovision in this way, it WILL re-encode your file. Another waste of time.
Actually, I own a copy of TMPG Plus. What do I do with it though? Just recode the captured AVI to MPEG2? Then what? I'm guessing there is guides available here at afterdawn or at doom9.org, so really I just need a bit of guidance as to what to do.
I looked up the programs that you recommended, but do I just copy the MPEG2 files do a DVD (data DVD) and that's it? I don't think so, but maybe sombody could enlighten me.
nr. of gops: 4849
nr. of frames: 61723
nr. of I-frames: 4849
nr. of P-frames: 19179
nr. of B-frames: 37695
average quant (non linear): 4.557
VBV underflows detected: 12
VBV underflows fixed: 12
minimum bitrate: 675
maximum bitrate: 9499
average bitrate: 7500
This is the problem: the resulting m2v file doesn't play in Windows Media Player, VLC player, Nero Showtime and Jetaudio. It doesn't play at all! In fact, the minute I try to load the file it crashes my PC. Seeing as HC 0.15 is supposed to be the very best in encoding MPEG2 files, I really want to figure out this problem.
