1. getting my sound from stereo PCM to 5.1
found for me personally, the most hassle free method to be
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=59949
so thanks mebejedi for even making me aware that such routines were doable. I'd looked at them once before on Doom9 but the plogue bidule VST route seemed like an awful lot of complicated effort with contradictory guides. the above link works like a charm and is easy to follow.
one thing though. did you tweak the guide much to get a good solid centre channel? I've found my speech to be a bit tinny.
2. findng some way of speeding things up when rendering to my interim avi.
as good as it is, I still get this feeling that I could get the same results MSU smartsharpen is giving me, without having to sit for 24+ hours watching it process at a mere 2 frames per second. I've got a P4 2.8 for gods sake and this unoptimised filter is not using the full power available.
so thus far. investigations last night found some interesting stuff.
firstly, asharp is a good filter. much faster than MSU, about 8 times faster in fact. however there are certain unsharp aspects to MSU that still give it the edge. however, tonight I will be trying unfilter.
I tried this once before a long time ago on a really crappy capture and got a reasonable result from it. it brought forward a lot of detail that was washed away. I'm hoping that this in combination with asharp will give a comparable result to MSU.
in addition, other filters to consider people if you don't want to go the combustion Mebejedi route to clean up some of the laser rot spots or film damage spots.
undot and removedot both do a nice job.
the only thing left to get everything out of virtualdub and into script is a comparable filter for avisynth that replicates donald grafts RGB filter and something that gets me control of white balance in avisynth.
laserschwert, you're a script guru.
my RGB setting is R 98, G 100, B 108
white balance is adjusting the white value to the standard 255, 255, 255.
what's comparable in avisynth to do this?