Sections:
Introduction:
Many modern TVs now include an extra frames feature, usually either 120Hz or 240Hz. This just means they take the source video, which is usually between 24-30FPS, and add new, interpolated frames between the original frames that make the motion look much more smooth.
High framerate (HFR at 48fps) was used in The Hobbit and will be used in upcoming films like the Avatar sequels, so why not watch all your movies at higher framerates?
A lot of people don’t realize this, but 99% of TVs made before this feature was introduced are actually capable of displaying 50FPS and 60FPS, and of course most LCD monitors display 60FPS as well.
This tutorial will allow you to convert videos of any framerate to higher framerates; 25FPS becomes 50FPS and 24/30FPS becomes 60FPS by default, or you can specify whichever framerate you want.
This script offers greater quality than any televisions I have seen.
I’m sure many people will want to see how well this script works, so here’s a comparison:
Original File
Converted File
Note: This can now be done in realtime using Universal Media Server!
Purpose:
This post provides instructions on how to easily convert any video to 60FPS, which allows you to take advantage of this feature of modern TVs on your computer monitor or TV without actually buying anything.
Step 1:
The files needed for this step are found in this zip folder (~3MB).
Run and install the file AviSynth.exe.
It is an early version of AviSynth 2.6 that is more stable and faster for multithreading than 2.5 releases.
Download and install MeGUI, run it, let it update all the things it wants to and import all of the presets.
Optional Tip: If you want MeGUI to update to the very latest stuff (at your own risk) you can push ctrl+s, go to the Extra Configuration tab, and in the Auto Update section select “Use development update server”
Close MeGUI and extract the files in the tools folder from our zip file into your MeGUI tools folder, which for most people will be either C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\ or C:\Program Files\MeGUI\tools\.
Step 2:
Download and install MKVToolnix.
When that is installed, run MKVMerge (Start Menu -> All Programs -> MKVToolnix -> mkvmerge GUI).
You will also need codecs installed. If you don’t already have them I recommend K-Lite Mega Codec Pack. If you install K-Lite, make sure to select “Profile 9: Lots of Stuff” during installation.
Step 3:
Start MeGUI again. You should be left with a window that looks similar to this:
Step 4:
Push ctrl+r, or go to Tools -> AVS Script Creator.
Now you should see something like this:
Step 5:
Click the Config button next to Avisynth profile.
It should look like this:
Step 6:
Click the New button down the bottom and type 60FPS in the name box, so it should look like this:
Step 7:
Now for the script that will do the actual 60FPS conversion.
Just copy and paste the following code into the text input area.
Cores=4
SetMemoryMax(512)
SetMTMode(3,Cores)
PluginPath = "C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\avisynth_plugin\"
LoadPlugin(PluginPath+"svpflow1.dll")
LoadPlugin(PluginPath+"svpflow2.dll")
Import(PluginPath+"InterFrame2.avsi")
<input>.ConvertToYV12()
SetMTMode(2)
<deinterlace>
<crop>
<denoise>
<resize>
InterFrame(Cores=Cores)
Important note #1: Make sure the path on the third line is correct.
For example, if you are running 32-bit Windows, you will need to modify the path to “Program Files” instead.
Important note #2: You should change the number “4” in the script (on line 1) to your number of CPU cores. If you don’t know how many cores your CPU has just Google your CPU and you should be able to find the specs somewhere, or 4 should be fine anyway.
Important note #3: If you have a video card, you can improve quality by adding “GPU=true” to the script. However, it may make encoding time slower, so take that into account.
So InterFrame(Cores=Cores) would turn into InterFrame(Cores=Cores, GPU=true)
If you do this, you may also need to go into your MeGUI tools folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\x264) and rename the file opencl.dll to opencl.dll.bak. This will let MeGUI use the version of opencl.dll that your video card drivers have installed, instead of the generic one from MeGUI.
Important note #4: This script always outputs either 50FPS or 59.94FPS (60FPS) for compatibility reasons. If you want to always double the framerate instead, so that for example 23.976FPS turns into 47.952FPS (48FPS), you can use the “FrameDouble” parameter.
So InterFrame(Cores=Cores) would turn into InterFrame(Cores=Cores, FrameDouble=true)
So now your window should look similar to this (with different text):
Step 8:
Click the Extra Setup tab and make sure “Prefer DSS2 over DirectShowSource” is checked.
Optional tip #1: You might also want to choose your preferred resizer. For aspect-ratio changes (like from 720×576 to 720×480) a neutral filter like Spline36 will be nice. For actual resizing (like from 1920×1080 to 1280×720) a sharp filter like Spline64 will be best. I usually just leave it on Spline36. Make sure to untick the checkbox on the option after you change the default resizer, otherwise it will always be used by default which is often unnecessary.
Optional tip #2: I recommend changing the “MOD value used for resizing” to mod4. This gives the best balance between compatibility (a lot of devices like PS3 don’t have good mod2 support) and aspect ratio accuracy (the higher the MOD value, the more likely the aspect ratio is to be skewed more heavily).
Now it should look something like this:
Then just click the Update button then the OK button
Step 9:
Now we’re back to the AviSynth script creator window and now that we have our 60FPS AviSynth template made and selected, it’s time to choose which video we want. Just click the … button next to Video Input up the top of the window and find your video, then click Open.
A window will pop up with buttons, click the option on the right, usually either “DirectShowSource” or “AviSource”.
A window will pop up to show you the video, you can just close that.
Now you should see something like this:
Step 10:
Click the Save button. The video preview window might pop up again, you can close it again.
Step 11:
Now is the time when you need to choose the quality of the video and audio.
If you don’t know what to do here, something quick and easy is to just use CRF, which means you let the codec decide on the bitrates itself. So you can click the “Config” button next to the “Encoder settings” dropdown when you have a x264 option selected, then just enter a number between 16-20 in the “Quality” input box. 16 means your video will be almost exactly the same quality as the source, while 20 will look good too while taking up less space. Personally I use 16 for everything because why not? 🙂
So when you have your quality, click Queue in the Video encoding section.
Step 12:
Now your video is ready for conversion.
Now just go to the Queue tab and click Start down the bottom, then wait for it to finish.
Step 13:
The final step is to add your audio and/or subtitles from the original file to the converted file. This process uses muxing, not conversion, so there is no quality loss.
For this we will use the program we installed earlier, MKVMerge.
So run that and drag the converted file into that program, then do the same with the original file. If you can’t drag them on, you can use the add button instead.
Now you have several items in the Tracks, chapters and tags section. You just need to untick the ones you don’t want. Usually you will want to leave them all selected except for the original video track, as I’ve done in the following example:
Finally, set the Output filename down the bottom of the window and click Start muxing.
When that is done, you have your final video!
Final Thoughts:
This might seem like a long process, but actually it is only long once. Since we have now made templates, the process for the videos from now on will be much faster; instead of entering the script each time, now you can just make sure your 60FPS AviSynth script is selected.
This file can now be played just like any other video. I personally watch videos on my TV which is linked up to my computer using the awesome, free program called Universal Media Server, and that handles these 60FPS videos perfectly with no configuration.
Any comments are appreciated. If you can think of an improvement to the script, or to the process, or if you just found it useful and want to say thanks, please do leave a comment. I would love to know that it’s being used.
If you want to donate to help me with server costs and time spent keeping this article updated, you can do so here with my thanks 🙂
FAQ:
- How can I fix random crashing of vfw4x264.exe?
This probably means you are encoding a file using an input mode other than DSS2, which can happen if the clip is .m2ts or .dga (blu-ray) or another uncommon format.
You can fix it by changing the 2 in the second line of the script to either 3, 4, 5 or just removing that line (try them in that order, since the options get progressively slower) - The option “Prefer DSS2 over DirectShowSource” is disabled. or
I get an error like “can’t load avss.dll”.
This means your computer is missing Haali Media Splitter. You can download it here or as part of a K-Lite Mega Codec Pack and the error should go away after you install it. If you install K-Lite, make sure to select “Profile 9: Lots of Stuff” during installation. - The file stops encoding after 99%.
This usually indicates a codec configuration issue. Try installing/reinstalling K-Lite Mega Codec Pack, and make sure to let it select its preferred defaults (not “quick upgrade”) - Can I customize the output framerate to make it 48FPS, 75FPS, 120FPS, or anything else?
Yes, you can choose any framerate you want. It is best to choose a framerate that is divisible in some way with the original video, but even that is your choice. You just need to add the options “NewNum” and “NewDen”, like this:
InterFrame(Cores=Cores, NewNum=48000, NewDen=1001)
NewNum stands for “New Numerator” and NewDen stands for “New Denominator”. In general, with NTSC material the NewDen should be 1001 and the NewNum should be 1000x your desired framerate (so for 48FPS you want 48000 and 1001) while for PAL content you might just want something like NewNum=75,NewDen=1 to output 75FPS content. - The output seems choppy, can I make it smoother?
Yes, by default we output a video that sacrifices a little smoothness in order to reduce errors, but different people’s eyes pick up on different things so it can all be a matter of taste. You can try the Smooth tuning, like this:
InterFrame(Cores=Cores, Tuning="Smooth")
Also, using GPU mode produces more accurate results and therefore should appear smoother, though it can be slightly slower overall. You can try it like this:
InterFrame(Cores=Cores, GPU=true)
Or try both options at once like this:
InterFrame(Cores=Cores, Tuning="Smooth", GPU=true) - Why isn’t the GPU being used much in GPU mode?
Only some things are done with the GPU in GPU mode, it’s still mostly done by CPU but helped by GPU. - Why is the video still the original framerate after running it through MKVMerge?
You probably selected the wrong tracks in MKVMerge so you’re getting the original video track instead of the new one; make sure you untick the original video stream before muxing. - Why does MeGUI give an error “SVSmoothFPS: unable to load library given in ‘compose’ […svpflow2.dll]
Try re-installing or updating your video card drivers, and if that doesn’t work then maybe your video card doesn’t support OpenCL so remove GPU=true from your script. - Why am I getting the error “SVSmoothFps: unable to load library given in ‘compose'” when I try to run the encoding process, but not when I preview?
Go into your MeGUI tools folder (usually C:\Program Files (x86)\MeGUI\tools\x264) and rename the file opencl.dll to opencl.dll.bak. This will let MeGUI use the version of opencl.dll that your video card drivers have installed, instead of the generic one from MeGUI. - Why am I getting the error “Error message for your reference: Can not read the video stream”?
MeGUI can’t read from folders or files with certain characters, so try moving the video to a different folder and/or renaming the file.
Thanks:
Widezu69 for providing the original AviSynth script that I used as a base.
Fizick for MVTools, the library that does all the work, and SVP for the modifications to MVTools that make it even better for our purposes.
Everyone on various forums for their feedback, this is really a community effort.
Changelog:
21/05/2015:
- Updated InterFrame to 2.8.2, which improves speed
16/03/2015:
- Corrected and improved the instructions and FAQ
05/03/2015:
- Updated InterFrame to 2.8.0, which improves speed and lowers memory usage
- Updated conversion script
24/02/2015:
- Updated the instructions and FAQ
27/09/2014:
- Updated InterFrame to 2.6.0
- Added a tip about using framedoubling mode
- Updated most images to reflect the minor changes to MeGUI
- Minor improvements to instructions
22/07/2014:
- Added more items to the FAQ
10/07/2014:
- Added more items to the FAQ
- Shortened the changelog to only the latest 3 changes by default
20/05/2014:
- Updated instructions
- Added more tips
- Added to and updated the FAQ
- Updated the link to MKVToolnix to always point to the latest version
June 23, 2015 at 10:26 pm
Stuck @ 99.37%, it won’t go any further…
June 27, 2015 at 10:01 pm
I have a question……I’ve succesfully converted several video’s to 60fps and all of them made the converted file bigger than the original…..which is very logical to me
but right now I’m converting a 16gb 1080p x264 7.1 dts file and it’s almost done (over 80% converted) and the projected file size is about 9 gigs?
How can it be smaller? Or will it gro significantly when I add audio to the converted file?
June 28, 2015 at 9:20 am
@Cam you may be able to improve that in cartoons by using the animation mode in InterFrame, see the InterFrame docs. It will always be a problem depending on how different one frame is to the next, but the tunings improve it.
June 29, 2015 at 12:09 am
hey so i followed all this to a t, except for step 8, [Click the Extra Setup tab and make sure “Prefer DSS2 over DirectShowSource” is checked.]
the button isnt checked, how do i solve this???
July 1, 2015 at 4:38 pm
Nice!
July 2, 2015 at 4:51 pm
Could you use MediaCoder ?
Isn’t that easier?
Load the script, keep original audio, all codec options in one place.
Plus can do batch converts.
Also, I want to replace some game cut scene videos that feel a little choppy. But they are in .webm format. How would this work?
July 9, 2015 at 3:19 am
Great guide and blog. Thanks for your effort.
July 10, 2015 at 1:42 am
Thanks for this great tool and guide, it worked for me!
I do have one question though, on the last line in the script this guide currently has: Interframe (Cores=Cores), should I change it to (Cores=8) as thats how many cores my processor has, even though I changed the first line to: Cores=8, will this make any difference or shall I leave it as (Cores=Cores)?
Also, should I change the third line which is currently: SetMTMode(3,Cores) to SetMTMode(8,Cores), or should this not be modified?
Please email me back, thanks!
July 16, 2015 at 7:21 am
When I go to quene nothing comes up my video is not there
July 21, 2015 at 4:20 pm
I’ve successfully converted some videos to 60fps, but there are some that are stuck at 99%. Do these videos really can’t be converted?
July 22, 2015 at 4:10 am
Hello! At step 10 when I click save it says the avs file cannot be opened; can’t read the video stream. But, before that, I made 3-4 perfect 60 fps videos….what’s the problem now?! And it also says there is no function named ‘SetMTMode’! I tired to move DLL files to system32 and etc, none of them worked. Any ideas?
July 23, 2015 at 3:05 am
Encode freezes at 98%?
July 24, 2015 at 2:19 am
Hi,
Thanks a lot for this tutorial, I am upgrading videos from my mobile phone this way, and it works like a charm ! However, I have 185 of them that need processing, is there any way to apply this process to the whole list of videos ?
July 27, 2015 at 4:18 pm
Is there any way to convert using RGB? I can easily see the color loss and it would be awesome to keep the original colors. Red especially, is easy to spot the change.
I’ve tried changing it to RGB in the MEGUI script but the reference aviscript demands YV12.
Thanks!
August 5, 2015 at 4:18 am
Hey,
Thanks for doing this tutorial but I wanted to say that I am not able to select the “Prefer DDS2 over DirectShowSource”.
Any ideas why?
Thanks a lot! 🙂
Specs:
Intel i7 @ 2.2GHz – Quadcore
Nvidia 820M
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
4GB RAM
Anything more needed? 🙂
August 5, 2015 at 5:01 am
Whoops, I found out about the prefer DSS2 over DirectShowSource but now I have this issue.
When I try to import video, I get this error message AviScrypt error: DirectShowSource: Directshowsource.dll can not be found.
I let the program import everything it needed to and don’t know what to do know.
Thanks in advance! 🙂
August 8, 2015 at 4:14 am
Ignore my last post, I have solved the problem!
Great tool by the way!
August 12, 2015 at 11:19 pm
getting this error PLEASE HELP !!!! – http://i.imgur.com/2s0jS5a.jpg
August 14, 2015 at 4:36 pm
I can’t view the two 20110618 demo videos because they are .mkv. Is the comparison available in a format that will run on Windows Media Player?
Regards
August 16, 2015 at 12:06 am
Hello and thanks for the tutorial, I have a question, whether this formula: InterFrame (newnum = 120000, newden = 1001) is to 120fps What should I use for the video exactly fit me in 60fps?
August 23, 2015 at 2:22 am
Getting an error from MeGUI at step 7 (all previous steps completed successfully). Can paste the script code but as soon as I try to edit it a fatal error message appears, about trying to access protected memory. Windows 7/64. Registered at Doom9’s Forums but can’t post during the first five days. Any suggestions meanwhile?
August 23, 2015 at 2:34 am
Re previous comment, should have added: tried again after a reboot, same result.
September 12, 2015 at 4:46 pm
There’s no such 60FPS option in step 6 even doing everything exactly as shown into the tutorial.
September 12, 2015 at 9:40 pm
Awesome tutorial, works perfectly!
Is there any way to do the same on Linux? I would like to use my VPS as a “rendering machine” so I can use my desktop while its going.
Thank you!
September 28, 2015 at 1:41 am
Hi. after pressing save it says : make sure it’s a valid script or avisynth is properly installed. I tried everything. couldn’t fix this problem. PLZ help
October 10, 2015 at 5:55 pm
it’s always stuck 98 99 % what i should do i reinstalled K lite mega many times it’s couldn’t resolve if readed pls contact my email I’m really want to convert 60fps vid it’s fantastic
sorry for noob english
October 12, 2015 at 1:18 pm
Hi SubJunk,
I’ve followed the tutorial literally, step by step.
First problem I encountered was the “Prefer DSS2 over DirectShowSource” checkbox
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack installed with Lots of Stuff, yet it is still disabled.
And it was fixed by downloading Haali and installing it separately.
Next problem was the “Can’t read the video stream”
I moved and renamed the video
The directory was simply “C:\video1.mp4” yet the same error keep coming.
Next problem was the “spvflow1.dll”
The DLL file doesn’t exist. I reinstalled everything yet it’s still not exist.
I tried as much as I can, yet there was no hope for it.
Thanks for your time, and I’m looking forward to read your reply.
October 14, 2015 at 5:14 am
This article is really helpful , thank you sincerely.
October 23, 2015 at 8:46 pm
@Sam it should be “svpflow” not “spvflow”
@haru it’s a problem with MP4 files, try muxing them to MKV first
@Tim upcoming versions of SVP can run on other operating systems and when they’re released I’ll update the article
October 23, 2015 at 8:48 pm
@RobJF maybe run MeGUI with admin permissions
@ignacio 60000 and 1001
October 23, 2015 at 8:50 pm
@D Dutton if you can’t open MKV files you can’t complete the tutorial anyway
@Rashmi Ranjan looks like a missing codec
October 23, 2015 at 8:51 pm
@Oscar there’s InterFrameGUI which can batch process I think
October 23, 2015 at 8:52 pm
@Hanbei try muxing to MKV beforehand
October 23, 2015 at 8:53 pm
@h. mouzine that size seems fine to me. You shouldn’t need over 10GB for 1080p with H.264 unless the settings are very low-tech
October 24, 2015 at 2:08 pm
@Lazer72 I’ll look at MediaCoder, I haven’t tried it before. Any file format is supported as long as you have the codecs for it, and WebM has wide support so it should be okay
October 24, 2015 at 2:11 pm
@terry you have to start them after they’re added to the queue
October 24, 2015 at 2:11 pm
@Jeb that’s probably with MP4 files, try muxing them to MKV beforehand
October 24, 2015 at 2:11 pm
@Kornel Mirk please see the FAQ
October 24, 2015 at 8:16 pm
Hello and thanks for providing this script. I’ve been using this for couple of videos a few weeks back but recently I wanted to convert some videos again but the script has some problem now. It says “AviSynth script error : DirectShowSource: DirectShowSource.dll could not be found”. I’ve checked my megui folder and I’ve confirmed that the dll file is inside there but no matter what I do it would keep telling me it’s not there.
October 25, 2015 at 7:24 am
When I use the animation tuning megui crashes during the encoding process. The film tuning and the smooth tuning works fine though. Any input?
October 30, 2015 at 7:37 am
I am stuck at step10, keep saying cannot open video input after clicking save button……………
October 31, 2015 at 2:00 am
takes too long to encode, 2mins video for 3hours lol
October 31, 2015 at 2:01 am
btw thanks for the guide 🙂
November 2, 2015 at 3:36 pm
Excellent tutorial and very helpful the FAQ section.
It will be nice if we could do the same thing on Linux.
Thanks!
November 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm
i followed the guide step by step
but when i exit from the avisynt script creator gui i get an error : https://ctrlv.cz/en/NPeN
i installed all codec possible and even more =)
November 4, 2015 at 1:33 am
I tried muxing to MKV before MP4 but still the encoding hangs at around 97%, any solutions?
November 9, 2015 at 11:29 pm
what codecs they need i dont went to use k-lile ?
can update svpflow dll normally ?
November 10, 2015 at 4:57 pm
I got an error msg today…
The file ….. .avs cannot be opened.
Please make sure it’s a valid Avisynth script that Avisynth is properly installed.
Error Message for your reference : Can’t read video stream.
The clip im trying to convert to 60fps is a .avi file. Does this only work with mkv files?
November 12, 2015 at 11:01 pm
I want to ask: Is there a way to switch which GPU MeGUI should use when encoding. I mean, I have an Intel HD Graphics and Nvidia Geforce GTX 860M installed and I want to use the Nvidia video card to help out with the encoding with GPU=true.
November 20, 2015 at 12:49 am
I had to set MTMode(3) instead of 2 to make the encoding not crash and now it works but I can see no difference. I set output to RAW/AVC so mkvmerge wouldn´t mess with the framerate and MediaInfo still says the video has 23.976 fps. I know how frame interpolated video looks like but my encodes look exactly like the source. Somehow there is no interpolation.