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Unofficial VirtualDub Support Forums > VirtualDub Filters and Filter Development > Mpeg2 Plugin Artifacts?


Posted by: RoadRanger Jan 30 2012, 05:31 PM
Hi, I'm trying to process some Mini-DV format video files and when I play the source file in VirtualDub after importing it there are a HUGE amount of artifacts. Saving as an AVI retains those artifacts. These source files play fine on my PC and WD TV Live. Any ideas? Thanks!

Posted by: RoadRanger Jan 30 2012, 06:24 PM
FYI Media Info gives:

Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 228 MiB
Duration : 5mn 3s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 6 296 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Format settings, GOP : M=3, N=15
Duration : 5mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 5 947 Kbps
Maximum bit rate : 8 500 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Interlaced
Scan order : Top Field First
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.574
Stream size : 215 MiB (94%)
Color primaries : SMPTE 170M
Transfer characteristics : SMPTE 170M
Matrix coefficients : SMPTE 170M

Audio
ID : 192 (0xC0)
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 2
Duration : 5mn 3s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 224 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 8.10 MiB (4%)

Posted by: RoadRanger Jan 30 2012, 07:21 PM
I downloaded the old obsolete "VirtualDub MPEG2" and that works fine.

BTW I was using the latest 64 bit versions of VirtualDub and the MPEG2 plugin.

Posted by: ale5000 Jan 30 2012, 08:37 PM
Post a video where the problem happens (possibly small), so maybe the author of the plugin can fix the problem.

Posted by: RoadRanger Jan 30 2012, 11:46 PM
The source files are fairly big and not mine to share publicly - if the author of the MPEG2 plugin wants to check out the issue I'd be happy to provide him one of the files.

Posted by: ale5000 Jan 31 2012, 12:03 AM
The author is fccHandler => http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=Profile&MID=280

PS: Try if the problem still happens with the latest tset version of http://forums.virtualdub.org/index.php?act=ST&f=15&t=20772 and the http://fcchandler.home.comcast.net/~fcchandler/Plugins/MPEG2/.
Try also the 32-bit version to be sure that the problem isn't specific to 64-bit version.

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