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meatwagon
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27. July 2007 @ 13:26 |
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Thanks, Coldet, I don't know why I didn't think of posting a summary of directions as you did. I also want to pass on my thanks to several people in the group, but especially Markus for translating from the original Polish.
Will be interesting to hear what kind of results we get. I just compressed a 700+MB file to 175MB with pretty decent quality.
Thanks all,
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celtic_d
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27. July 2007 @ 21:58 |
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No real directions there (I mean default settings?) and I don't see what is wrong with newer builds. With 1.2.x for instance you get SMP support. Still can't see how you can get quality with less than 30% the original filesize. You should at least be resizing down and maybe applying some heavy filtering.
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coldet
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28. July 2007 @ 11:31 |
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@celtic and I suppose anyone else - Hey dude I've just summarised the "asd's" "how to guide".
They DO get amazing results, or we wouldn't all be trying so hard to find out how they do it.
I must say here that I tried ripping a dvd last night. I used DVDx and a recent version of Xvid. I pretty much used the settings from their guide and was able to rip direct from a 119 minute DVD to a 320mb avi file. The results were very acceptable when played from my Divx Player onto a 72cm Flatscreen TV.
I often download 750mb dvdrips and even 2x750mb dvdrips that are of dubious quality. I'd be pretty chuffed if I could download movies to the quality I was able to obtain with my very first try using their settings.
I'm not a dvdrip pro, how it all works, I really can't say. That it does work - well, you wouldn't be reading this thread otherwise. Good luck & happy ripping.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 31. July 2007 @ 09:42
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coldet
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28. July 2007 @ 11:47 |
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btw - ANY DVD runs in the background to bypass the copy protections.
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Boerseun
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6. August 2007 @ 03:41 |
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Hello jamesrruk[/b]. Have you managed to play those XviD.asd files? I'm having the same problem, can't play those .asd movies...! Can you help please? Can anyone help PLEASE...!!!
Thank you for the help.
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coldet
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6. August 2007 @ 21:15 |
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ejputz
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16. August 2007 @ 09:14 |
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I have no way of checking this; but I think at least some of these XviD ASD files use adaptive quantization (xvid profile settings). This gives better compression, but is incompatibile with alot of dvd players. Creative use of B-VOPs also causes problems with hardware players. This could be why they seem to work for some people, and not for others.
If I can add my two cents to the "how-to" discussion; whenever I (re)compress any video for local storage, I use the following 2nd pass settings:
Advanced Simple @ Level 5
All other settings default
!!!bitrate formula: 160000 b/s PER-HOUR of video!!!
(More like 120000/hr, if you're trying to match ASD's compression)
I prefer to use LameACM for audio encoding. It has fewer problems with A/V sync. If I'm doing batch encoding, I re-sample audio to 48kHz (or 24kHz) just to make sure everything is equal.
If you're tying to match ASD's Mp3 compression, you'll have to resample to 24kHz, and use FhG's codec (AFAIK, the Radium version is the only codec that allows 48kbps @ 24kHz). Lame won't let you go lower than 64kbps @ 24kHz in Stereo. I never go that low anyhow. It only saves a handful of MBs per-hour, and sounds like S#!T. Keep audio at 128kbps/48kHz and your ears will thank you!
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ejputz
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16. August 2007 @ 09:20 |
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Did I say "Adaptive Quantization"? I meant to say "Global Motion Compensation".
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celtic_d
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16. August 2007 @ 16:40 |
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GMC only helps in certain situations and it really isn't worth the speed hit. One thing I would point out that if you are going to be encoding at low bitrates, then run your first pass at a higher quant than the default 2.
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ertnemz
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29. September 2007 @ 16:59 |
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English section of the Xvid ASD is here :)
[url=http://www.showtv.fora.pl/lt-img-src-http-showtv-republika-pl-fora-n8-gif-gt-lt-b-gt-in-english-language-lt-b-gt-f19.html][/url]
Remember to read this first, before you register.
[url=http://www.showtv.fora.pl/how-to-register-as-a-new-member-of-this-board-t518.html][/url]
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coldet
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29. September 2007 @ 23:36 |
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Originally posted by ertnemz:
English section of the Xvid ASD is here :)
[url=http://www.showtv.fora.pl/lt-img-src-http-showtv-republika-pl-fora-n8-gif-gt-lt-b-gt-in-english-language-lt-b-gt-f19.html][/url]
Remember to read this first, before you register.
[url=http://www.showtv.fora.pl/how-to-register-as-a-new-member-of-this-board-t518.html][/url]
None of that helps much if they don't allow postings relating to their compression info.
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ertnemz
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1. October 2007 @ 13:45 |
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Quote:
6. How do you guys convert these files?
We do not give out guides anymore, Because we had some fake torrents. For more info check Sticky ''Conversion''.
Well, it's seems that, you have to figure it out by yourself :P
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29. October 2007 @ 23:05 |
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Hey i'm kind of new here, but could someone email me a copy of that english version pdf on guides in how to create an video with the 'Xvid asd' format !!!
thanks in advanced :D
crazy
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GtGonzo
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21. November 2007 @ 13:27 |
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Folks I dont know about converting these XVID ASD files but I went to http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/download/
and downloaded the "Free Download " pack.
If I just try to run the files now they execute with WMP and play fine.
A DIVX player and converter is included in the download pack and the whole lot instals together but I havnt tried them yet.
I will let you know what results I get
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lancem
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8. December 2007 @ 02:55 |
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I attempted the method below and it wouldn't work. The Twopass - first pass would only export audio and second pass would only slightly reduce the size of the file. Would somebody be able to post the PDF or email it to me so i can post it.
Originally posted by coldet:
OK - I'm gonna try to put this to bed. But first - thank you meatwagon for sending me the translated guide in PDF. I have posted the file onto the newsservers at alt.binaries.xvid I unfortunatly dont know of a file hosting site to use.
The asd compression method in a nutshell.
1. They use Video codec XviD 1.1.0-beta2 and warn that newer versions may cause problems!!
2. Sound compressed with standard MPEG-Layer3
3. VirtualDub
4. Start VirtualDub and set Audio - Full processing mode
5. Next select Audio - Compression
6. New Window a)select MPEG-Layer3 b) on right select 48kBIT/s, 24,000Hz Stereo 6KB/s
7. Now select Video - Compression..
8. In the new window choose Xvid MPEG-4 Codec and click on config
9. New window a) click on Load Defaults b) in Encoding type select Twopass - 1st pass apply by clicking on OK.
10. Open the video file you wish to compress (warning can be ignored) then select File-Save as AVI.. give a file name and your compression will start.
11. Once complete Do not close program after first compression or you'll have to start everything from the begining. now it's time for the real compression ie. the second pass.
12. choose Video - Compression..
13. New window click on Configure
14. New window at Encoding type: change to Twopass - 2nd pass Now ....
15. In Target size (kbytes) calculate the following:
Input file size (MB)/3,5 = Target size(kbytes). Example 376MB/3,5 = 107,428 Target size rounded off to 105000. click on OK
16. Now it's time to choose File - Save as AVI.. The compression will then start.
17. Check the new file and make sure that the audio/video synchronisation is correct.
And thats supposedly all there is to it.
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zapph
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26. April 2008 @ 19:54 |
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Hey, guys. I know it's been a while since anyone's posted in this thread but, since it's the reason I decided to sign up, I figured I would go ahead and say what I have to say about this.
First: I love (XviD ASD) files. I think it's great to be able to put an entire season of 24 - plus a couple of movies, too - on a single-layer DVD. I've never had any trouble playing these files on my computer or on my $40 Wal-Mart DivX DVD set-top player. As far as quality is concerned, I'm watching them on a 27" CRT TV and they look fine.
Second: I decided to rip and transcode a couple of my DVD box sets and used settings similar to the (XviD ASD) files. I say "similar to" because, as has been said, how they actually do it is some sort of "trade secret". I put both season 1 and season 2 of "The King Of Queens" onto a single-layer DVD, along with all of the bonus features and the two episodes with commentary tracks - for a grand total of approximately 54 22-minute episodes. They play and look just as good as many of the regular-sized "scene" releases I've gotten.
Third: To get those "similar to" settings, I simply use AutoGourdianKnot, which should be readily available and easy to find. It is a front-end for VirtualDub with a much easier to understand interface and it allows you to specify what size you want the finished product to be. There's a drop-down menu for choosing 1/4 cd, 1/2 cd, etc.. There's also a spot for you to type in what size, in megabytes, you want. I've transcoded many videos, either from DVDrips or to shrink the size of existing AVIs, using AutoGK and have never had any problems with it. No synch issues, or anything. There have been times when an AVI isn't recognised by AutoGK. When that happens, I use SUPER(c) from erightsoft to re-encode the video, first. AutoGK only seems to work with DVDs and AVIs (as far as I know) so, for other file-types, I use SUPER(c), first, to make them AVIs, then use AutoGK.
(Whew! I didn't expect to type that much when I signed up. :) )
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