mpeg2 to huffyuv conversion

Drawshot · Post by **Drawshot** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 3:02 pm

Ok... maybe a stupid question...

What software should I use to convert an mpeg2 file to a huffyuv?

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 3:13 pm

Not a stupid question if you don't know the answer to it. There are several ways to do it- the preferred way (from what I can tell) is outlined in ErMaC's guide http://www.animemusicvideos.org/legacy/ErMaC/guide5.htm. Most people here would suggest reading through all of these guides- there is a wealth of information there. Another way (though more lossy from what I understand) is to use a program like FlaskMPEG (you can get this from the download page on Doom9.org. Both require you to have ripped (copied) the files off the DVD and onto hard drive (or at least work much better when you do...) using the programs also outlined in ErMaC's Guides.

For the Flask method, you load up the ripped .vob file(s) in Flask, crop the section you want if you like, and select the method/size/parameters to convert it.

Drawshot · Post by **Drawshot** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 6:22 pm

Well, the prefered way in ErMaC's guide seems to involve using a DV500, or a really convoluted way of using the VOB files directly in Premiere. I don't have a DV500, and really think that the process of setting it up so that you can access the VOB files directly is more trouble than it should be. I think it would be simplest to just convert the source footage to a huffyuv avi, and get on with editing...

Flask doesn't seem to want to work for me at all. It doesn't even want to open any files anymore. I have had some success with TMPGEnc. TMPGEnc seems to work fine, other than the fact that it refuses to encode the entire file. I give it a 30 minute mpeg2 file, and I get a 20 minute truncated huffyuv avi... grrrr...

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:11 pm

Follow the guide up to when you make your AVISynth file.

Open that AVISynth file in VirtualDub.

Select Fast Recompress, set Compressor to Huffyuv, and Save AVI.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:11 pm

The best way really is to setup AVISynth like in ErMaC's guide and use VirtualDub to convert clips into huffYUV. I doubt you have enough space to turn a entire DVD or two into large huffYUV avi files.

~klinky

D.Co · Post by **D.Co** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:11 pm

one method that would work is using the

Vob -> DVD2AVI -> Avisynth/virtualdub method that you'll find outlined for you in some faqs and howto's on www.doom9.org (a great resource for dvd ripping and such) You seem to know enough about what your talking about that I assume that you only want to take out specific scenes from your VOB file. (Huffyuv is a damn big codec... ie it doesn't compress well... but it compressess losslessly) The method outlined above will tell you how...

Just dick around www.doom9.org you'll find the information you want there...

Good luck

D.Co · Post by **D.Co** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 7:13 pm

damn Ermac and Klinky you just beat me out in my posting, less than a minute...

Made my post irrelevent....

Sniffle sniffle

apologies for the double post

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Tue Oct 22, 2002 8:20 pm

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Drawshot · Post by **Drawshot** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 12:01 am

ErMaC wrote:Follow the guide up to when you make your AVISynth file.

Open that AVISynth file in VirtualDub.

Select Fast Recompress, set Compressor to Huffyuv, and Save AVI.

Ahhhhh.....

Ok, that did it.... It's still a little bit of a convoluted process. But it works, and now I have 80 gigs of Rurouni Kenshin goodness to play with!

I still think the process with DVD2AVI, AVISynth, and VirtualDub seems like something that a single program could handle. But until I find it, I guess I'll have use that process.

Drawshot · Post by **Drawshot** » Wed Oct 23, 2002 2:15 am

Well... after testing out the prospect of doing inverse telecine with the decomb.dll in the avs file, I think I may have to stick with this process. The resulting avi is absolutely sweeeet. Also, it's less than half the size of the telecined footage!