Start CCE. As you can see the user interface is not exactly what I'd call user friendly and it took me a while to figure out to load a file to encode but I finally got there. So right-click, then click on add in the menu that appears as shown below..
A quick note: The guide is based on CCE 2.5. CCE 2.62 refuses to load VirtualDub frameserver files. Hence either use CCE 2.5 or use the following workaround: Load the d2v in TMPG and set it up for SVCD encoding, then save the project. Convert this with VFAPI to a pseudo AVI and load that in CCE. If you need subs open the TMPG project in AVIUtl instead, use VobSub for the subs (the setup is the same as for VirtualDub), then save the AviUtl project and convert it to a pseudo AVI using VFAPI. Then load it into CCE. Note that this would significantly decrease performance. CCE 2.62 is also unable to open Avisynth files (it claims: "Is not an AVI file").
That will open a window where you can select your input file. Despite not being stated CCE is also able to read VirtualDub frameserved .dvr files as well as Avisynth .avs files, you'll just have to set the file type to all files as by default only .dv, .avi and .mov will be selectable.(See Below)
To configure the encoding right click on the loaded file and press Edit.
The following window will pop up. Here you can configure the video encoding mode. CCE allows for multipass VBR encoding which results in a better image quality. However, to do so your decoding program has to be able to provide the same frame more than once to CCE. In case you're using a real AVI file, or a VFAPI AVI this is no big deal, however, FlaskMpeg is unable to do so unless you use a special version which you can also download from my software page.
ES means elementary stream, that is audio and video will be separate. PS means program stream and will results in a multiplexed audio/video stream.
In one pass VBR you can set a Q factor between 1 and 300. The smaller it is the better the image quality. Furthermore you can specify a max and min bitrate.
In multipass VBR you can also specify a desired bitrate. Furthermore you can specify the number of passes and do your own bitrate management when you press on the Advanced button. Since these options are rather complicated they will not be discussed here. Please refer to the CCE manual for more information.
You can also encode to MPEG-1 as of now.
Due to the amount of problems surrounding audio in CCE uncheck Audio file so that CCE will produce only a video file. The way the guide describes encoding audio is better than what CCE does anyways.
The other settings allow you to access special video, audio and quality settings. Most settings are pretty straightforward, as audio bitrate and sampling rate for instance. You can usually leave the GOP settings alone. Do NOT select DVD compliant in the video settings unless you are making a miniDVD. Check Progressive Frames if you're encoding at 23.976fps, otherwise it has to be unchecked.
The Quality settings are interesting:
Here you can decide how the bitrate will be allocated. The more you move the slider to the left the more bitrate will b allocated complex parts.
The anti noise filter is usefully when you have a DVD with lots of noise. Well-encoded DVDs should not need that option at all.
If you click on Setting in the Encode setting, then right click on the loaded source file you can define the encode range and specify an external audio file.
The external audio source can be useful when you've used DVD2AVI to demux the audio. Note that the audio source has to be 44.1KHz to be VCD or SVCD compliant. CCE does not downsample the audio, that has to be done before.
After setting all that press OK and back in the main menu press Video. There make sure that aspect ratio is set to DAR 4:3 (that's the default setting but it can't hurt making sure), press OK to get back and then GO in the main window... There press Encode and watch as it encodes quite fast..
After a while you'll end up with an mpv and an mpa file, or an mpg file if you chose SP as stream type.
Reply With Quote
Originally Posted by Haggar
Bookmarks