Etivo setup

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Originally Posted by JustinD

The current issue that I am trying to resolve, and given that I am using your .xml config file (which works well with changed scaling), is that I am experiencing a green line on the right side of the picture.

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You will need to experiment a little, but you should be able to add a crop command before the "scale=w:h" parameter. The syntax is "crop=w:h:x:y". So your flags should look something like (the figures are made up):

-mc 0 -ss 0.1 -vf crop=570:400:40:0,scale=208:120 -ovc lavc ...

If you wish to experiment a little more you can have a read of the manual page here. be warned that if you have a typo or error in the flags then the encoding will fail... and it's not so easy to figure out what went wrong so it is best to make one change at a time.

thanks for the info. Things were going well until I found that the encoder (mencoder) was starting to fry my PIII. When it would run I would get this burnt smell from the PC. So I changed to my 3.0 PIV PC. I left it to encode last night to find it had rebooted during the night with an IO error (whatever that is) during encoding and it now seems a little wobbly - could be a clean install in the making:(
Funny, it should be able to handle it as AutoGK and tytools with its DVD converter isn't exactly light on the CPU. I was also mucking around with the vbitrate as the quality was a little weak and it seemed to me that this should be the thing I should tweak (my guess). I had cranked it from 80 to 800 and the picture was much smoother but 4x the size. When the PC crashed it was set at 400 (the compromise level). Maybe that was the problem - or I need a new, faster PC (my wife won't like that talk).

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Originally Posted by JustinD

I had cranked it from 80 to 800 and the picture was much smoother but 4x the size.

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Values such as 700 are quite normal, I was just using 80 because the destination was a small screen on a mobile and I was wanting to keep the playback smooth on its little processor :)

All seems to be working well now - I was able to do a system restore (who would figure that it would be Microsoft coming to the rescue:eek: ).
I re-installed etivo with the DivX addin and I have mucked around with the configuration settings and I have been able to crop the borders. I think I will continue to play with the settings.

Now that I am largely over my initial learning curve, I need to work on my relationship with my wife :D