DVD to AVI to MPEG Help Please!

[problemchild]

I have Gordian Knot to convert my DVD to AVI's. I have used it sucessfully one time. Now everytime that I use it everything goes well but when I open up the AVI the movie plays upside down. I thought I followed the instructions well and I don't know what I am doing wrong I thought someone here could help.

[jcb]

Your going through way too many steps!

Theres no need to convert your DVD's to AVI's before you save them for your PSP. The easiest way is with DGIndex, PSPVideo9 and AVISynth. AVISynth comes with Video9 so it will install both. DGIndex is available at many sites and should be easy to find. Download the PSPVideo package along with DGIndex and install both.

With DGIndex theres also no need to rip the DVD to a single file. Simply select all of the VOB files with DGIndex, crop the video as needed and save the project file. Edit your AVISynth script to point to the DGIndex project files and open the avs file with Video9.

If you need a quick tutorial on using the above programs with AVISynth scripts to edit the video I'll post one.

[problemchild]

Thank You jcb

[jcb]

- Rip the DVD with Decrypter/AnyDVD or any other program you wish.
*There is no need to rip the movie to a single file. Rip it as you normally would for backup purposes.

- Open DGIndex.
- Click File, Open and select all of the VOB files you would like to copy. (The movie files will be the largest) After each file keep clicking ADD until you have them all.

* DGIndex will combine the files you picked into one project file. You can now move the slider at the bottom of the window to scroll through the film.

- Move the slider to your starting point and click [
- Move the slider to where you would like to end the movie and click ]

* Now move the slider to a point in the movie so you can see the top and bottom borders clearly.

- Click Video, Clipping and select the checkbox on the top right of the popup window. As you move the sliders in the popup you'll see the borders change in your movie. Crop the movie as needed and close the window.

- Click Audio, Output Method and select Decode AC3 - WAV
- Click Video, iDCT Algorithm, you can leave the default options. If you'd like to try and improve the quality a bit select either 64-bit floating point or IEEE-1180 Reference
- If the video is interlaced (a TV show on DVD) click Video, Field Operation, Honer Pulldown Flags
- If the video is progressive (a movie) click Video, Forced Film

*When you click File, Play in DGIndex it will give you any and all info you need about the video clip.

You have set your start and stop points, You have clipped your video and have set how you would like to convert the audio.

- Click File, Save Project and choose a location.

Done. You can close DGIndex.

Open notepad or a text editor and copy and paste the following:

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loadplugin("D:\DGDecode\DGDecode.dll")

video = mpeg2source("d:\filename.d2v")
audio = WAVSource("d:\filename T01 3_2ch 448Kbps 48KHz.wav")
AudioDub(video, audio)
Lanczos4Resize(400,192)
AssumeFPS(25, 1, true)
Tweak(sat=1.5)
Sharpen(0.3)
return last

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- Edit loadplugin to point to your DGDecode.dll file. This file will be in your DGIndex directory.
- Edit video and audio to point to the files you saved with DGIndex in the above steps.
- Edit Lanczos4Resize to the resoltion you want. 320, 240 / 368,208 / 400,192 etc
- The AssumeFPS command is optional. I use the setting in the above script because I feel it gives me less ghosting after encoding to 29.97 fps as the PSP requires. You can try it with and without this command to see for yourself.
- You can edit Tweak(sat) from 1.0-2.0 for increased color.
- You can edit Sharpen from .1 to 1.0 depending on what you need. .3 to .5 is advised for best results.
- return last is required by PSPVideo9 so leave it as is.

- Click File, Save As, Select ALL FILES in the file type dropdown and enter filename.avs

Your done. Open PSPVideo9, pick your profile and open the .avs file you just saved with notepad instead of an AVI or MPG file.

Use ( -t 60 ) in the Custom FFMPEG command line to encode a number of seconds first before spending the time on the entire movie. So -t 60 will encode the first 60 seconds of the file.

I use the following profile in PSPVideo9

AVC > FQ-VBR
400x192 resolution
Passes: 1 or 2 Up to you. Start with one pass
Keyframe: 250
Aspect Ratio: 1:1
QScale: 21 or 22
Framerate: 29.97


For Interlaced DVD content use the following AVISynth script instead of the one above:
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loadplugin("D:\DGDecode\DGDecode.dll")

video = mpeg2source("d:\bfilename.d2v")
audio = WAVSource("d:\filename T01 3_2ch 448Kbps 48KHz.wav")
AudioDub(video, audio)
Lanczos4Resize(400,192)
FieldDeinterlace(blend=false)
Tweak(sat=1.5)
Sharpen(0.3)
return last

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FieldDeinterlace(blend=false) is added to deinterlace the video.

**NOTE: The resolution you set in the avs script should be the same as what you have set in PSPVideo9.