Enhancing Final Fantasy Videos

[ffxdean]

still waiting on a UK translation of the US-only extractor for FFXII.

Hey Peridian, I already released the extractor for the PAL Version. Its also located @ Ngemu.

Here is the link to the AMV forum thread:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=81425

[peridian]

Bashar, I can see that the video itself displays qualities of an interlaced video, the weird thing is that the video reports as progressive in DGIndex (the m2v files were pulled off the DVD through a specialised extractor).

I will try a few other methods of deinterlacing, but the ones I've tried so far have no impact on the video, the interlacing still appears (suggesting that this really is a progressive video file). Does a progressive video file play back as well as interlaced on a TV screen? Would they have stored the files in a progressive format but from an interlaced source for playback on TV off a PS2?

Zarxrax, that AMVapp is very useful. I already had most of the tools and plugins from it, but with the exception of the VirtualDubMod, which suddenly makes Avisynth a whole lot more user friendly. Also, very pleased to find where DVD2AVI had gone to, I thought it had been abandoned.

ffxdean, I was already aware of your work, but so far you've only managed one out of 39 videos, and the initial release didn't even work. I am aware that actually the extractor is the one built by project fao for FFX, and that it can be modified to work on FFXII, but so far it has only been successfully modified for the US disc (I do monitor the ngemu boards for this).

No offence, but I think its a bit silly to say you've done the extractor and slap your name all over it when it doesn't actually do what its supposed to. If you manage to get the whole disc working, then it will be a great achievement. Until then, I'm still waiting.

Regards,
Rob.

[ffxdean]

the initial release didn't even work.

Yeah I need to update that one (uploaded the worng one), But the link the thread in this forum works.

P.S Read the whole thread.

[peridian]

Well I have no idea what was going on, but I eventually deleted all the videos, re-ripped them from the disk, and this time the Decomb plugin for AviSynth was able to deinterlace the videos. No idea why they were coming out as progressive before.

I also got TomsMoComp and KernelDeint to work with them, although I don't think either of them did quite as good a job as the Decomb one. I also experiemented with DGBob, but since its just an enhanced version of the FieldBob I tried before, I'm assuming I'm better off with the deinterlace.

I'm going to play around with the same kinds of filtering as I used from VirtualDub before, but using the AviSynth ones instead.