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Old 17th October 2013, 20:59   #2341  |  Link
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Thanks very much MrC for the new version...

Everything works nicely here, I just found a (purely cosmetic) issue which might have been present for some time...

What I did was trying to just author and burn a fully DVD compliant MPEG2 file which was small enough to fit on one DVD. My settings are to keep compliant video and audio, so all AVStoDVD had to do was demux the source and author it using MuxMan.

After importing the source file the main window told me that the final size would be 9.5 GB (source file was 2.9 GB) and the status line was very red. A novice user might have given up at this point, but I started the process anyways, and it finished successfully.

This time it is not MediaInfo's fault, I tried three different versions.

Here's the log:
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<17.10.2013 20:35:55>
START PROCESS
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<17.10.2013 20:35:55>
PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: PAL
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 9526/4450 MB (214%)
DVD Output Setup: DVD-Ordner
DVD Label: DVD
DVD Menu: No Menu
Output Folder: I:
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Fortschrittsfenster anzeigen (Voreinstellung)

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Spline36Resize/Spline36Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 1
PAL SpeedUp: 1
Video Resolution: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2000
Video BitRate Level 1: 6500
Video Profile Level 2: 3500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 224
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 1 (@ 0.98)
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): DE - German
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): DE - German
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (255,255,255)
Chapters Interval: 6
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: H: BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 0
Unload ActiveMovie library: 0
Adjust ffdshow at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0
<>

<17.10.2013 20:35:55>
TITLE 1 SOURCE FILES
Video: I:\test.mpg
Info: MPEG-2 Video - 2507 kbps - 720x576 - DAR 1,778 - 25 fps (CFR) - Interlaced (TFF) - 2:28:38 hours - 222966 frames
Audio 1: I:\test.mpg
Info: MPEG-1 Audio layer 2 - 192 kbps - CBR - 2 ch - 48000 Hz - 2:28:38 hours (0 ms delay)
[MediaInfoLib - v0.7.58]
<>

<17.10.2013 20:35:55>
AVISYNTH SCRIPT
Import("E:\Programme\AVStoDVD\Lib\A2DSource.avsi")

# Video is frameserved by AviSynth just for Preview and Edit purposes.
Video = A2DVideoSource("I:\test.mpg", CacheFolder="I:", FrameRate=25, VFR=false)
# Audio is frameserved by AviSynth just for Preview and Edit purposes.
Audio = A2DAudioSource("I:\test.mpg", CacheFolder="I:")

Video = Video.ConvertToYV12(interlaced=true)

AudioDub(Video, Audio)
<>

<17.10.2013 20:35:55>
START VIDEO DEMUXING OPERATIONS
Target Video FileSize: 9037,4 MB
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "I:\test.mpg" -vcodec copy "I:\DVD_0_test.m2v"
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<17.10.2013 20:43:11>
END VIDEO DEMUXING OPERATIONS
Created File: I:\DVD_0_test.m2v (2637,7 MB)
OUTPUT VIDEO INFO: MPEG-2 Video - 2480 kbps - 720x576 - DAR 1,778 - 25 fps (CFR) - Interlaced (TFF) - 2:28:38 hours - 222966 frames
<>

<17.10.2013 20:43:11>
START AUDIO DEMUXING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "I:\test.mpg" -acodec copy -map 0:1 "I:\DVD_0_test_1.ToFix.mp2"
<>

<17.10.2013 20:45:29>
END AUDIO DEMUXING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
Created File: I:\DVD_0_test_1.mp2 (204,1 MB)
OUTPUT AUDIO INFO: MPEG-1 Audio layer 2 - 192 kbps - CBR - 2 ch - 48000 Hz - 2:28:38 hours (0 ms delay)
<>

<17.10.2013 20:45:30>
START DVD AUTHORING OPERATIONS
BatchMux Parameters: -arglist "I:\DVD_0_BatchMux.ini"
BatchMux ini file:
-d "I:\DVD_0\VIDEO_TS"
-mxp "I:\DVD_0_MuxMan.mxp"
-l "I:\DVD_0_MuxMan.log"
-muxman "E:\Programme\AVStoDVD\MuxMan"
-prio LOW
-palette "I:\DVD_0_Palette.txt"
-v "I:\DVD_0_test.m2v"
-vidmode LB
-a1 "I:\DVD_0_test_1.mp2"
-a1lang de
-cellfr "I:\DVD_0_test_Chapters.txt"
-progfr "I:\DVD_0_test_Chapters.txt"
-chapfr "I:\DVD_0_test_Chapters.txt"

<>

<17.10.2013 20:58:51>
END DVD AUTHORING OPERATIONS
Created Folder: I:\DVD_0 (2926,4 MB)

CHECK DVD SIZE
DVD Folder (actual) Size: 2926,4 MB
vs Estimated Size: 9526 MB -> 69,3% undersize
vs Assets Size: 2841,9 MB -> Warning!
<>

<17.10.2013 20:58:51>
Log file created by AVStoDVD Release 2.7.2
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As i said, it is purely cosmetic...



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Old 17th October 2013, 22:23   #2342  |  Link
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Well, not so cosmetic, at least for a less experienced user.

Use following hotfix



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Old 18th October 2013, 03:35   #2343  |  Link
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Wow, this is hard to believe...


At 10 PM I report a non-critical issue for some software I use to its author.

At 11:30 PM the author sends me a working hotfix.



You would think that I must have paid good money for this software, plus I purchased priority gold support. And even then this kind of customer service would seem extraordinary.


But this just happened with AVStoDVD which happens to be free...

MrC, you are amazing...
Thank you so much,


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Wait, wait, thanks for the kind words... but actually the hotfix was already ready...



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ffmpeg 2 pass support?

@MrC...

Any chance of seeing 2-pass ffmpeg video support?

ffmpeg ver 2.0.2 and 2.1 are pretty good.
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Is it possible to set subtitles default ON if so how?

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@MrC...

Any chance of seeing 2-pass ffmpeg video support?

ffmpeg ver 2.0.2 and 2.1 are pretty good.
I just tested ffmpeg 2.1 a little bit, and I agree that it is pretty good...

First of all it does play along nicely with AviSynth 2.57 and 2.58 again (thanks qyot27 ). I used it within AVStoDVD for a couple of test conversions and did not run into any problems.

But I do not see any reason to include 2-pass ffmpeg support in AVStoDVD. First of all it would not be a simple matter of just changing 1 or 2 command line parameters. Instead ffmpeg would have to be called twice with different parameters.

And second I do not see any benefit. If you need 2-pass for higher quality, you already have the HC encoder. Do you believe that ffmpeg 2-pass would give you higher quality than HCenc 2-pass? Or do you think that ffmeg would be faster than HC? I doubt it in both cases.


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I just tested ffmpeg 2.1 a little bit, and I agree that it is pretty good...

First of all it does play along nicely with AviSynth 2.57 and 2.58 again (thanks qyot27 ). I used it within AVStoDVD for a couple of test conversions and did not run into any problems.

But I do not see any reason to include 2-pass ffmpeg support in AVStoDVD. First of all it would not be a simple matter of just changing 1 or 2 command line parameters. Instead ffmpeg would have to be called twice with different parameters.

And second I do not see any benefit. If you need 2-pass for higher quality, you already have the HC encoder. Do you believe that ffmpeg 2-pass would give you higher quality than HCenc 2-pass? Or do you think that ffmeg would be faster than HC? I doubt it in both cases.


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I agree... somewhat.

Faster... no

Better... On most stuff I encode below 3500k, I feel Yes. Anything above 3500k, mostly No.

Calling ffmpeg for multi passes can be done with just 1 command line bat file with different settings.

Code:
ffmpeg.exe -i "####.avs" -framerate 23.976 -aspect 16:9 -dc # -g 12 -maxrate 7500k -q:v 2 -b_strategy 2 -brd_scale 2 -bf 2 -profile:v 4 -pass 1 -passlogfile ffmpeg -an -f mpeg2video pass1.m2v

ffmpeg.exe -i "####.avs" -framerate 23.976 -aspect 16:9 -dc # -g 12 -lmin 0.01 -mblmin 1 -qmin 1 -qmax 31 -maxrate 7500k -b:v ####k -bf 2 -pre_dia_size 5 -dia_size 5 -qcomp 0.7 -qblur 0 -preme 2 -me_method dia -sc_threshold 0 -sc_factor 4 -bidir_refine 4 -profile:v 4 -mbd rd -mbcmp satd -precmp satd -cmp satd -subcmp satd -skipcmp satd -pass 2 -passlogfile ffmpeg -an -f mpeg2video pass2.m2v
But this is just a thought for the back burner.
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I agree... somewhat.

Faster... no

Better... On most stuff I encode below 3500k, I feel Yes. Anything above 3500k, mostly No.

Wow, your command line for the second pass is really impressive! Also quite slow probably... And still no adaptive matrix, no auto GOP adjustment. Requires extensive tests to determine which decoder has the edge at these low bitrates...

For me whenever I am not happy with low bitrate encodes, usually Procoder does the trick. Not that sharp, but very pleasant to watch.


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Wow, your command line for the second pass is really impressive! Also quite slow probably... And still no adaptive matrix, no auto GOP adjustment. Requires extensive tests to determine which decoder has the edge at these low bitrates...

For me whenever I am not happy with low bitrate encodes, usually Procoder does the trick. Not that sharp, but very pleasant to watch.


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Slow... kinda Yes... about 40-45fps on my PC... where HC is about 65fps. not to bad if you remove "-mbd rd" but with somewhat of a drop in quality... about 50fps.

adaptive matrix... No... never looked into setting it.

auto GOP adjustment... Yes.

I was a Procoder fan for low bitrates, but i liked the ability to change what I wanted with ffmpeg. I believe it delivers as good of, if not better then, quality.

This was just a quick 2-pass sample that looks pretty good.
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see Help/FAQ/Subtitles/Q5.7 :sorry:

@Fishman0919

good point, FFmpeg is making big improvements in latest releases. Does Hank have to be worried?

What about adding an easter egg (a registry subkey under AVStoDVD main key) to swap HCenc 2-pass with FFmpeg 2-pass? Encoding profile label will remain HCenc 2-pass, but FFmpeg will be launch instead.



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see Help/FAQ/Subtitles/Q5.7 :sorry:

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good point, FFmpeg is making big improvements in latest releases. Does Hank have to be worried?

What about adding an easter egg (a registry subkey under AVStoDVD main key) to swap HCenc 2-pass with FFmpeg 2-pass? Encoding profile label will remain HCenc 2-pass, but FFmpeg will be launch instead.



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Sure.

I like ffmpeg for long...... movies. 2 1/2 hrs where the bitrate can get down to around 3500k or lower.... ffmpeg seems to do well when/where HC may not.
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Release 2.7.3 Alpha 131108 is out. For testing purpose only!

Change log:

- Some bugs fixed
- Added 'Preferred DirectShow Codecs Setup' section
- Added SetACL 2.0.3.0 (LGPL by Helge Klein) to AVStoDVD package

Feedbacks on Codecs selection new section (for Win7/8) are very appreciated.



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Tested the 2.7.3 Alpha version a little bit under WinXP (I know this will not help you a lot...) just to see if there are any incompatibilities.

Clicking every option on the new DirectShow Codecs selection page resulted in the expected error messages. But so far no damage was done, FilMerit cannot find any inconsistencies in my DS Filter chain. Very cool...

At the bottom of this codec selection page there is a link to the Win7 filter tweaker tool. This link is hardcoded to use IE. Bad... Could you change this to use whichever browser is defined as the default browser?

One minor cosmetic thing:
Somehow you must have reduced the width for this item in the main program window:
140020 AviSynth FrameServing-Test des Titels zur Laufzeit ausführen
The translated text does not fit any more, a line break is introduced. Peanuts...



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@manolito

thanks for the quick feedback! Very appreciated, as usual. The retro compliance with XP is very important. I still have a XP Virtual Machine, but a regularly used OS is a different stuff.

About the default browser, I check the following reg key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithList

On my systems (both Win7 and XP) that key returns FIREFOX.EXE. If the read routine fails for any reasons, it falls back to IEXPLORE.EXE.

About the checkbox label width, I will enlarge it again.



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About the default browser, I check the following reg key

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.htm\OpenWithList

On my systems (both Win7 and XP) that key returns FIREFOX.EXE. If the read routine fails for any reasons, it falls back to IEXPLORE.EXE.
I think you are using the wrong reg key. On my computer I have SRWare Iron set as my default browser, but the reg key you are checking will return IE.

IMO you should check this key instead:
"HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\http\shell\open\command"
The "Default" entry contains the default browser (at least on my XP SP3 machine).


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Maybe this key is more "correct" for a multi-user OS:
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\http\shell\open\command"

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Release 2.7.3 Alpha 131108 is out. For testing purpose only!

Change log:

- Some bugs fixed
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- Added SetACL 2.0.3.0 (LGPL by Helge Klein) to AVStoDVD package

Feedbacks on Codecs selection new section (for Win7/8) are very appreciated.



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On Win 8.1 Pro I get an endless loop when trying to change mpeg1 support from "Microsoft" to "ffshow".

Click "ffshow", "change yes or no" then error... back to "change yes or no" and continues to repeats no matter what I pick.

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@manolito

good point, I will add that key as primary check, the currently used as backup.

@Fishman0919

thanks for the loop bug report. Easy to fix.

Does the error 'Preferred Codec NOT updated' happen only on mpeg1 codec or on all codecs?



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good point, I will add that key as primary check, the currently used as backup.

@Fishman0919

thanks for the loop bug report. Easy to fix.

Does the error 'Preferred Codec NOT updated' happen only on mpeg1 codec or on all codecs?



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I assume you are administrator of your Win8 system, aren't you?



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