admin do you know of any issues wrt writing the log file for interlaced VC-1? I have some 1080i TV shows (from BD disc) I'm working with that the log file said were "Frame Structure: Progressive". Using Preview I can see in the Info dialog that there are mostly Frame Interlaced and some Field Interl...

<Here> is a page with some "objective numbers" about various (bob-) deinterlacers. Thanks for the useful link. people happily use slow, slower and evenslower x264 settings to improve 2 percent here, another percent there. But when it's about vastly improved frame quality at vastly reduced birate, t...

Anon17 wrote:

laserfan wrote:I guess we know now why your handle is Anon17!

I don't get it.

Well duh. I asked a simple question, and instead of answering you gave me crap about my ISP.

Thank you. I guess we know now why your handle is Anon17!

Groucho2004 wrote:

laserfan wrote:For those of us with limited bandwidth to dl the samples, is there a clear winner?

Do you use one of these to connect?

Worse. A satellite dish!

For those of us with limited bandwidth to dl the samples, is there a clear winner?

It seems to me that this was discussed elsewhere and that SLI'ed videocards offered no advantage, though I don't recall the reason for it exactly--something to the effect that the decoding is done on an independent ASIC on a card and not the GPU (and not on a doubled GPU).

The primary advantages [include] correct decoding... Well, I like the summary a lot especially that you led with this one. I'd had inexplicable decoding errors myself which found their way (of course) into my encodings and there was no rhyme/reason to it. Very frustrating. But since my exclusive re...

neuron2 wrote:The prime raison d'etre is the...

Say what??!!

I think with minor edits you've just written a nice features/benefits paragraph for your DGDecNV web page!

Vippe wrote:Win 7 SP1 includes nVidia 266.58 driver witch has this error, so lots of new computers will have this version installed by default.

FWIW I installed W7 SP1 and this was not installed. I don't recall making any special exclusions when I let WU install the SP.

neuron2 wrote:Thank you for pointing out this deficiency. I will add two things:

1. A frame number on the FRM lines in the DGI file.

2. Show IDR and I instead of just I in the DGSource() debug output.

Great, thanks a lot DG for your attention--your efforts, skills, and expertise are much appreciated.

While the DGDecNV toolset knows the two types of I-frames possible in h264 videos--regular I-frames, and IDR frames, when I use debug=true I only ever see "I" with "Frame Coding Type:", never "IDR". Is there a way to tell the difference using the debug info? Or (easily) cross-check the VDub screens ...

Deadeye wrote:It appears that I've fallen behind the times, my scripts currently use DGMultiSource(). I'll look into that.

No pressing need to do that as DGMultiSource works the same still.

Hmm, my sarcasm detector just pegged... Or am I misreading your tone? Clearly DG is serious. I've almost forgotten already the daze (sic) when we were using 3 or four different sets of admin's tools (and I had .cmd files to operate each) depending on what codec what being indexed. The consolidated ...

have done a System Restore to a few days before all this started when everything was running fine... seems to have caused more problems though... A SR should not have done that. Maybe a hardware problem--do a diskcheck. Also examine your system event logs to see if anything unusual occurred around ...

I'm hoping this is a common problem It is not. Something in your system has gone haywire. If it were me I'd be inclined to look at CPU usage in Task Mgr/Perf Monitor first to see if x264 is running close to 100% as it usually does or whether any other process is hogging the system. Easiest thing to...

jsj wrote:Windows 7, 64bit
GeForce GTX 460 (MSI N460GTX Hawk) with driver version 260.89

My W7 x64 setup has a 9600GT with 260.99 and same bizarre glitches fwiw.

I tested on Ride with the Devil (Criterion Collection): EAC3TO: 213969 frames DGDecNV: 213970 frames FWIW, I too have found that occasionally eac3to gets the frame count wrong (I've only ever seen it off by one as your example). Dunno what that's about as otherwise it seems always to work as it sho...

Ok, while "local multicast" is still a complete mystery to me, I will tell ZoneAlarm to ignore same... :o Hey Big D, congrats on your spambot filtering efforts, though I must admit the questions are not un-challenging! :shock: :D So far so good, though I prefer the "who's buried in Grant's tomb" kin...

I installed ZoneAlarm some time ago and notice that it pops-up when DGIndexNV is running: "DGIndexNV.exe is trying to access the Internet. Destination IP 224.0.0.252". Whois doesn't tell me anything about this ip--does it really need 'net access or is ZA lying to me? EDIT: OK I just got the exact sa...

I compared the 12/1 version result with the new "fullinfo" option on a 2hr 1080p program: 12/1/2010 version: 10m 53sec 1/14/2011 version: 10m 11sec Didn't expect it to be faster but there you go. I'm running W7 64-bit, but DGDecNV's 32-bit exe. May as well post the logs too. Hey DG would it be easy ...

afaik the only reason for using >1 pass is if you are trying to hit a bitrate (i.e. file size) target. If not then 1-pass with a quality target is the way to go.

I installed version 2037 and unchecked the option "slow first pass" in the configuration of codec x264. Now, my results are as follows: Output file: 1280x720 MKV 45:00 min 1 pass - 75 fps 2 pass - 25 fps My question now is ... is it normal that 2 pass does so much slower? It is not possible to pass...

Serve the video with DGSource(debug=true) and play it in VirtualDub. It gives the frame type and number. Oh, my goodness; what a wonderful thing. Debug=true where have you been all my life! I love it, thanks. I'd looked in the wrong manual I see--it's described in the DGDecodeNV: debug=true/false -...

Trying to find I frames in an h264 video. When open it with DGDecNV and step forward from the beginning, the Information window shows the "Playback #"along with the frame type, so it seems in this way I can find the first-many I frames in the video. But if I want to find an I-frame elsewhere e.g. at...