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Enhance Video Quality using FFdshow and AVISynth

Reaper-X — Thu, 24 May 2007 04:57:18 +0000

Although previously i’ve tried this step in the past, but at that time i'm still using barton which is not strong enough even just to handle LimitedSharpening filter and caused big slowdown to the movie (read: lag) that’s why i prefer not to use this method at that time … but since i just upgraded my computer processor ( Athlon64 X2 4200+ ) i can use this avisynth script to pre-process video played on Zoom Player via FFDshow using AVISynth Script called BlindDehalo and Limited Sharpen (~~unfortunately it’s still impossible for me to turn them both on at the same time~~)

Btw here’s what the default video looks like :

And here’s what it looks like with some effects from LimitedSharpen (i prefer to use this one rather than the sharpen filter on FFDshow) :

And here’s another screenshot taken using BlindDehalo 2 (i’d definitely use this because in my opinion i really like how the video displayed, ~~if only my processor can handle it without stuttering / lagging~~) :

While below screenshot using BlindDehalo 2 with LimitedSharpen (~~The truth is, my pc is still not strong enough to handle this combo, and in other words this is just for screenshot purpose only~~):

As for the step on how to do it, or more info about this, you can read it at avsforum ;) … but as a side note, i'm using LimitedSharpenFaster instead of the original LimitedSharpen …

and here’s the link to get the avisynth script used (link updated / added) :

Update :

I just noticed that i have BlindDeHalo3 script when i'm doing some cleaning, without doubt i tested it right away and the results is :

Yep with BlindDeHalo3 script i can use them both at the same time without stuttering, i also added another script called Soothe script which is made by Didée

0x87485B96 | Tags : Guide, Multimedia, Tutorials, Video Tools

Movie plays Upside Down when using Haali Video Renderer

Reaper-X — Wed, 16 May 2007 15:12:20 +0000

Okay … so today i just received a new movie and because i'm really interested on watching this movie again (previously i watched this movie in cinema last year), i played it as soon as possible when the last part was completed :P … and at first when i played it, i did not see any problem with it … everything can be played normally like below image as an illustration

And as you already knew that i'm not a native english speaker, and so watching english movie without subtitle can be confusing especially at some part so i decided to search for it’s english subtitle and found one … but … a new problem arise, as illustrated below :

As you can see the video plays upside down !!! and because previously i can play the movie without problem, i decided to disable displaying subtitle first … and guess what ? the movie plays normally

Because it’s seems strange to me, i decided to play around with various settings in Zoom Player (that’s the media player i used) such as playing around with aspect ratio (i'm always using Disabled / Fit to Window aspect ratio), VMR (Video Mixing Renderer) 9 settings, try to flip it, etc … but the same problem still occur. Fortunately i remember that i'm not using VMR9 as my video renderer but i'm using Haali Video Renderer instead, and so i decided to switch the video renderer back to VMR9 Renderless and the problem seems to disappear

But because i prefer to use Haali Video Renderer rather than VMR9 Renderless i decided to mess around with various settings again … and after a while i found what the actual problem is (after getting various error message from various filters) … which is came from DirectVobSub / VSFilter … and to make thing shorter here’s what you should do just in case you experience the same problem like me :

As you can see from the above image, you just need to change the Vertical Padding in DirectVOBSub configuration into Original Height (the default setting is Extend to 16:9, although if it is for me i already changed it before to Extend 4:3)

And here’s the final result :

Haali Video Renderer

That’s it ;) … btw if you ask me why i choose Haali Video Renderer rather than VMR9 as the video renderer, see below (compare it to above image) :

Video Mixing Renderer 9 Renderless

See the differences by yourself :) … as a side note, you might be interested on reading my previous post about important video tools

0x87485B96 | Tags : Guide, Multimedia, Software, Video Tools, Windows

FLV Extractor - Extract Video & Audio from FLV file

Reaper-X — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:36:38 +0000

Previously i have posted about free flv encoder, but for some people (and that’s including me) .. i prefer to extract the audio files within those flash video file so i can do some other thing as well while listening to various song extracted from various video download site such as Google Video and / or Youtube using my favorite audio player (winamp)

So without further adieu .. here’s the download page of Moitah FLV extractor .. (in order to use it you’ll need .Net Framework 2), and you can grab it from here

As for the other thing, Moitah already explained it all in his page, also you can find many other audio video related tools in his site :)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Audio Tools, Freeware, Multimedia, Software, Video Tools, Windows

Riva FLV Encoder

Reaper-X — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:17:42 +0000

Need an easy way on converting your movie files (WMV,MPG,AVI) into Flash Video format (FLV) so you can distribute them online? then you should try using Riva FLV Encoder which is free of course (and i don't mean free trial) because it's really free (and that's why i like it) beside it's really easy to convert your video files using this tool

As you can see the main interface of FLV encoder is self explained, you just simply open your video files and choose from the available presets (DSL, DSL DV, ISDN, or Offline) to encode your movie files into FLV format

For advanced user, you can configure desired video frame rate and video bitrate, audio bitrate and sampling rate and many other options. Although the built-in presets already sufficient for most users (if it's for me i'd rather choose ISDN because it's already gave you a good ratio between it's quality and the output filesize, beside most Youtube viewer doesn't really care about video quality) :P

So do you want to try it too or not ? if you want to try it then you can go to the official site of Riva FLV Encoder

0x87485B96 | Tags : Codecs, Freeware, Software, Video Tools, Windows

How come new software keep getting bigger

Reaper-X — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:41:08 +0000

Intervideo WinDVD 8 has been released to public a while ago and i’ve been thinking on getting it (i mean the trial version of course) ;) .. but after seeing that the trial version file size is 115 Mb, i don't know if i should download it or not.

Because until now i only use WinDVD decoder combined with Cyberlink PowerDVD decoder to be used on Zoom Player to watch my dvd movie collection (not my own collection actually because my sister is the one who bought it)… and i'm just wondering how come every time there’s a new software release the file size keep getting bigger and bigger ? is it just me or did everyone else feel the same way too ?

0x87485B96 | Tags : Multimedia, Personal, Shareware, Software, Video Tools

Haali Splitter 1.6.338.23 Released

Reaper-X — Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:07:49 +0000

Although i'm a little late on posting the new Haali Splitter 1.6.338.23 release (29 October 2006), but it's still better than nothing, right ? anyway since i already post a brief description about Haali Splitter and what it does before, i'm not going to talk about it anymore. Btw you can download it from their page directly, or you can download the Haali Splitter 1.6.338.23 from my site. Well actually because their server is so slow (if it's for me), i decided to put it on my server just in case i / someone need it in the future .. at least for now (by the way the official site will always give you the latest version, so i suggest you to check them first)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Codecs, Freeware, Multimedia, Open Source, Software, Video Tools, Windows

DivX Codec 6.4 and Dr Divx 2.0.1 Beta 2 Released

Reaper-X — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:33:57 +0000

One of the most popular Video Codec for Windows has been updated to the version 6.4. The latest version from this popular codec offer some new features like :

1080HD encoding mode
New fast 1st pass rate control mode
High efficiency resize filters
Improved support for interlaced video
Adaptive noise reduction

And to keep up to the latest version of Divx Codec, Dr. Divx the open source transcoding tools has been updated into version 2.0.1 Beta 2. So it’ll works fine in conjuction with the Divx 6.4 Codec

Haali Splitter Updated

Reaper-X — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:02:23 +0000

Whoa, i didn't know Haali Media Splitter was updated recently ! and i'm still using the old version (it's not that old though) so now the current version of this software is 1.6.224.23 (the one that i'm currently using now after updating the Haali Splitter). And it seems the only new features that can be seen by me (by looking at the Haali Interface / Properties) is that Haali Splitter now support the MPEG-TS container.

But for those who didn't know, Haali Media Splitter in a simple way is a tool to demux a container file so the video / audio within the container can be rendered through the decoder.

Here’s an example on how this Splitter works in a simple way :

Your Video Files / Input => Splitter => Decoder => Renderer

If you still don’t get it, maybe below example can make you understand how splitter works :

Your video files encoded using Divx / XVid and using MKV as the container called Movie.MKV => Installed Splitter / Demuxer on your system and in this case it was Haali Media Splitter => Installed decoder on your system, it can be Divx Decoder / XVid Decoder / FFDshow / etc => Renderer and this renderer can be VMR (Video Mixing Renderer) or just Overlay

So that means in order the video / audio files decoded it goes through several steps like the example above.

And the conclusion is by using the correct media splitter you can play almost all media files out there, instead of using a Codec Pack that is over 5 MB in size, you can play MKV / MP4 / AVI / OGM by using only Haali Media Splitter that is only below 1MB in size but don’t forget you’ll need the decoder too in order to decode the Video Files. But by using FFDshow the decoder problem can be solved easily because FFDshow can decode almost all video / audio files out there. So that means with only 4MB in size you can play major video files / audio files in your computer … but this is getting of topic because i was explaining about Haali Splitter updated not about video files … so i’ll explain about this in later post :)

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Update : Dont forget to check my post about important video tools to play major video files on your computer too

0x87485B96 | Tags : Codecs, Multimedia, Open Source, Video Tools

Dr.DivX 2.0.0 OSS Finally Released

Reaper-X — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:38:54 +0000

It seems that Dr. Divx 2 OSS the transcoding tools finally released to public as Production Release status after going through several beta stages. This tool is an invaluable especially for those who likes to encode their video files easily. Although i didn't use it personally because i prefer VirtualDub rather than Dr. Divx series, but as for now i'm going to try this transcoding tools for the third time.

The first time i was using this tool is still in early beta stage which gives a lot of errors message (well, i never tried the first Dr. Divx series or Dr. Divx 1 ever), although it still can encode the video files but most of it's option still can't be used yet. And the second time i was using this software is in Beta stage before the Release Candidate and it still buggy too. But i think most of the problem already fixed by now. So now i'm going to try it

mkvtoolnix — Matroska tools for Linux/Unix and Windows

Reaper-X — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 23:41:40 +0000

MKVToolnix is a set of tools to create, alter and inspect Matroska files under Linux, other Unices and Windows.

mkvtoolnix -- Matroska tools for Linux/Unix and Windows.

MKVToolnix is a GUI to create Matroska Container video files, with just using drag n drop into the MKVToolnix window (MKVMerge) you can create MKV files in an instant (unless you’re going to create chapter information of your video files).

This programs also support most of video format out there which AVI-Mux doesnt support (MPG, M2V for an example). So without further explanation, this is a must have tools for everyone who likes to encode their video files, but for everyone who already download Real Anime this tools already included in Real Anime distribution (you can found it on Real Anime installation directory). By the way the current version for Windows is version 1.7 (at the time i write this post)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Freeware, Linux, Open Source, Software, Video Tools, Windows

Real Anime 4 The MPEG4 GUI

Reaper-X — Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:13:06 +0000

RealAnime is an easy-to-use Graphical User Interface to convert DIVX files and other formats into smaller files using state-of-the-art technology. All you need is to drop your video files in, tweak the settings and start the encode. RealAnime will encode all your files in a row.

The main codecs are x264 and aacPlus v2, but RealAnime also supports XviD, RealVideo 10, AAC HE, AAC LC, Vorbis and MP3. It also supports multi-track inputs like OGM, MKV and MP4, letting you choose what to keep.

RealAnime is Freeware and Open Source, licensed under GNU GPL v2.

Download:
4.1.3: Installer - [Europe] - [USA] - Sources
Detritus Software - Home of RealAnime - RealAnime 4.1.3

RealAnime are FrontEnd for many codecs, for example x264 and RV10 codec but BeSweet also included inside RealAnime distribution, just in case if u didnt know about BeSweet. BeSweet is an audio encoder that can encode into many audio format including to AC3 format and DTS format. RealAnime can mux your video file into standard AVI Container, Matroska or Real Media Container (RMVB). Most new users can find this tool to be very easy to use especially if you dont want to mess around with lots of encoder just to find the best setting / quality for your video files.

Tools included inside RealAnime distribution is :

Mkvtoolnix : a standalone tool to create a Matroska Container
YAMB : a frontend to create a MPEG4 Container
DGIndex : another tools like DVD2AVI
and a few more

So without further explanation, for all of you who likes to encode your video files this tools is a must !!! ;)

0x87485B96 | Tags : Codecs, Freeware, Open Source, Software, Video Tools