So I've downloaded some content off my tivo box, converted it to mpg using direct show dump, and now I want to dork around with it. Perhaps serve up some content to my xbox360 via media player, whatever, the details are about me learning what I'm doing, so answers along the lines of "poke around on this site", or "take a look at this tool", are exactly what I'm looking for.
My first pothole is around using dgindex to create an avs script that I can use to load into VirtualDub. My script is simple enough:
I load it up into Virtual dub, and the aspect is stuck in 1:1 (480x480). I tried editing the d2v file, I tried tweaking it in VirtualDub. No joy. Any hints? The mpg looks and plays fine in media player so the source is ok I think, but curiously video inspector lists the AR as 1:1 (480x480), so perhaps my problem is in the source mpg itself? Any tips for modifying that? Or should I use avisynth to fix it??
Bad form to respond to my own post and all, but...
Avisynth rocks. All kinds of very cool rezise functions in avisynth that fix the problem nicely. BilinearResize seemed to be the ideal one for my use case.
BTW I found no indication of DAR, but perhaps I was looking in the wrong place. The only thing video inspector shows is the AR which is listed as (1.00:1). Is there another tool that will analyze the mpeg stream and tell me more about it?
