maui917 Wrote:Ok I've downloaded MeGui, and I open the AviSynth Creator and when I try to put a video file in the Input Video section, it just hangs or crashes every time. I've tried it several times, with several different files, ranging from .avi's to .mp4's and each time the program just shuts down. I'm using Vista Ultimate, any ideas?

Quote:2. Delete/Uninstall all codecs and codec packs from your computer (including Vista Codec Pack, Combined Community Codec Pack, etc). Then install Haali Media Splitter (http://haali.cs.msu.ru/mkv/), and FFDShow (http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=173941). That might do it for you...

JPSiemer Wrote:Yes, you can go with any resolution, regardless of how stretched it appears, because the aspect ratio corrects this. So you are doing this correctly, however, you don't have to use MKVmerge afterwards to change the aspect. You see, whenever you load your AviSynth script into MeGUI you will get a preview box of your video... And at the bottom of the box you can click the "Show DAR" checkbox and mess with the aspect ratio in the dropdown box beside it.

maui917 Wrote:Ok I've downloaded MeGui, and I open the AviSynth Creator and when I try to put a video file in the Input Video section, it just hangs or crashes every time. I've tried it several times, with several different files, ranging from .avi's to .mp4's and each time the program just shuts down. I'm using Vista Ultimate, any ideas?

Geeba Wrote:Oh another question too..

Am I any better off getting 1080p rips to encode over 720p rips? Obviously theres more info in a 1080p rip but I'm guessing it going to make no difference at the end of the day if I'm encoding it to play on an Xbox?

Jhcheslik Wrote:Oh, a question.

Usually, the bright scene in any video, it seems too weird to me. Like, there's huge amount of glow... I know its not encoding fault. I tested it on my PC attached to HDTV and it looked fine, I'm assuming its xbox. So, how do you deal with something like that? I usually turn the brightness down in video option for xbox until it seemed reasonable.

Is the bright scene normal?

gabbott Wrote:Well I just stumbled upon something. Setting the apect in the AviSynth does work but after you set it you have to close the preview window otherwise the encode doesnt take the setting. That was the one thing I wasnt doing.

So that should save everyone the step of using mkvmerge. Might be a good idea to note that in the wiki. I was just leaving the preview window open and thats why it didnt work.

JPSiemer Wrote:Obviously, in most cases, encodes from 1080P rips are going to look a little better, but it probably won't be noticable. But keep in mind that it also depends on the quality of the rip itself because not all rips are created equal. I have come across one or two 1920x1080 files at 8GB that look worse than 1280x720 files at 4GB, so in the end its best just to use your own judgement in determining these kinds of things.

JPSiemer Wrote:Not sure. Never encountered this, but I would assume that it's just in the way that the Xbox renders the video and not the codec's fault.

Jhcheslik Wrote:Okay, now, you wouldn't believe it. Well, maybe you will.

I have a hacked Wii (homebrew channel), and I thought to give video/audio a shot, to see if it could run anything. Unlucky, the MPlayerWii can't really play any .h264 I throw at it. It would be very slow, choppy... So, finally I decided to try your setting, and it worked PERFECTLY!!! How crazy is that?!

Although... the XBMC is still the way to go.

romi7519 Wrote:step 14/15 in the wiki is misleading and in some ways incorrect.

not all the time would you need to encode the audio.
most hd scene rips/dvd's contain ac3 or dts so step 14/15 would only really be needed if someone wanted to encode down to mp3/aac/ogg etc.

r3skyline Wrote:ok, so im a bit confused. been trying to read / search for this answer. but here goes.

if im taking a BDrip that is originally at 1280x720 (720p, can we use 1080p and will it be the same?), im going to be shrinking it down to 720x400?

if so, how are you guys getting it to be full screen without getting it all blurry? i see comments of it being awesome quality and whatnot.

i have my xbox 1.6 with xbmc at 720p, so its setting movies at 1280x720 and anything else will be smaller and id have to resize = loss of quality/blurry.