Topic: Serious transcoding questions

Hi SVP project users/developers,

The videos I am transcoding are x264 720p/1080p 30/60FPS to 1440P 144FPS. I am still using the spirton guide to convert them. http://www.spirton.com/convert-videos-to-60fps/

I have tried out the SVP transcoding feature (without custom profiles) and find that InterFrame 2.6.0 by SubJunk is still superior in terms of quality, smoothness and artifacts.

However, I can see that this guide has not been updated for years, and no longer supports the latest codecs.

Upon looking at the script I can see smooth_video = SVSmoothFps(Input, Super, Vectors, SmoothString, url="www.svp-team.com", mt=Cores),

where defaults are

super: "scale:{
              up:2,
              down:4
            },
            gpu:0,
            rc:false}"

vectors: "{block:{
                   w:16,
                   overlap:2,
                   main:{
                        search:{
                             distance:0,
                             coarse:{
                                     distance:-10,
                                     bad:{
                                            sad:2000
                                     }
                              }
                         }
                   },
                   refine:[{thsad:250}]
              }"

SmoothString: "{rate:{
                             num:60000,
                             den:1001,
                             abs:true
                         },
                         area:0,
                         area_sharp:1.2},
                        scene:{blend:true, mode:0}
                         }"

And these settings cannot be simply used in SVP code.

Question 1.
Since SVP 4 is a product, is it legal to use latest svpflow plugins in the SVP 4 directory? If so, is there new feature/performance/quality increases?

Question 2.
Transcoding with latest LAV, ffshow, x264 tools with Megui provide correct frames but unable to finish encoding with missing track information. Is there anything I can do about it?

Question 3.
Has anyone compared SVP transcoding and spirton guide to see the difference between them?

Thank you all for reading and enjoy your day!

Re: Serious transcoding questions

> And these settings cannot be simply used in SVP code.

SVPcode uses the very same video profiles as SVP uses for real-time conversion.
You can define your own custom profile for encoding with the settings closer to Interframe's.

> is it legal to use latest svpflow plugins in the SVP 4 directory?

yep

> If so, is there new feature/performance/quality increases?

not for Avisynth plugins

Re: Serious transcoding questions

ckychris wrote:

30/60FPS to 1440P 144FPS

next time use 120 Hz mode. More hz doesnt mean better

Re: Serious transcoding questions

Chainik wrote:

> And these settings cannot be simply used in SVP code.

SVPcode uses the very same video profiles as SVP uses for real-time conversion.
You can define your own custom profile for encoding with the settings closer to Interframe's.

> is it legal to use latest svpflow plugins in the SVP 4 directory?

yep

> If so, is there new feature/performance/quality increases?

not for Avisynth plugins

Thank you!

Re: Serious transcoding questions

dlr5668 wrote:
ckychris wrote:

30/60FPS to 1440P 144FPS

next time use 120 Hz mode. More hz doesnt mean better

Hi, why would 120 Hz works better than 144 Hz? Since both of them are multiplies of 24.

Re: Serious transcoding questions

> The videos I am transcoding are x264 720p/1080p 30/60FPS