AVStoDVD Support Thread

[MrC]

Ok, thanks again for the report.

Still cannot understand why no subs selection is popping up with latest Alpha.

About 23.976->25 speedup, there is no way to do it at runtime with SubtitleCreator, because the option is not avaliable in command line. BTW there is in SubtitleCreator GUI, so you can change framerate of your srt offline and then add the mod srt to AVStoDVD.

Or try with PAL speedup off. DGPulldown usually does its jobs quite well.



Bye

[qyot27]

One thing I thought of concerning automatically detecting audio tracks when adding a plain .m2v file:

Could the dialog to choose between multiple audio streams allow priority changing of the tracks? In the cases I was dealing with the other day, there are three files,

16.9 23.976 moviename.m2v
16.9 23.976 moviename - Stereo.ac3
16.9 23.976 moviename - Surround Sound.ac3

If I add the .m2v, the audio selection dialog pops up and lists the two .ac3 files. Stereo is the one that is checked (I would guess because it comes first alphabetically). But I want the Surround Sound track to be the first audio track, so I have to deselect Stereo, select Surround, and then manually add the Stereo track with the Add Audio Track function. If I select both in the other dialog, Stereo is the first audio track.

Is there a way to add a couple of priority buttons to the dialog to move the tracks up or down? That way both could be added at once - in the user's desired order - without having to choose one that might not be automatically selected and then have to use the Add Audio Track function later.

[MrC]

Originally Posted by qyot27

Is there a way to add a couple of priority buttons to the dialog to move the tracks up or down? That way both could be added at once - in the user's desired order - without having to choose one that might not be automatically selected and then have to use the Add Audio Track function later.

Good point, to put in the ToDo list.

What about 2 new options in 'Title'/'Audio Track' -> 'Move up' or 'Move down' to change order after tracks selection?



Bye

[harnarn]

Originally Posted by MrC

Good point, to put in the ToDo list.

What about 2 new options in 'Title'/'Audio Track' -> 'Move up' or 'Move down' to change order after tracks selection?



Bye

And one more thing if possible adding more then one subtitle

[larrylumbo]

In the newest alpha, my last two conversions
HCenc 0.24 hangs and wavi hangs both when finishing.

The same video in 2.3.1, which has hcenc 0.24 also hangs after encoding is finished.

All the conversions are fine during playback.

[qyot27]

Originally Posted by MrC

Good point, to put in the ToDo list.

What about 2 new options in 'Title'/'Audio Track' -> 'Move up' or 'Move down' to change order after tracks selection?



Bye

That would be good too.

For that matter, having 'Move Up' and 'Move Down' as regular button options on the main window to rearrange Titles after loading would be awesome. Right-clicking - like what's currently possible - would definitely get rather tiring after a while, and not everybody uses keyboard shortcuts or at least not prolifically. Something as vital as track ordering needs buttons, IMO. I didn't even realize there were keyboard shortcuts until a few minutes ago (or an option for it in the right-click menu, but I blame that on not being as observant as I should, or just plain forgetting it was there).

Although, for the main window, maybe a total of 5 options would be better - Move Up, Move Down, Move to Top, Move to Bottom, and Move to # (to move the Title to any arbitrary position in the list; for those cases where the Top/Bottom options throw it way too far, and it would be uncomfortable to keep having to click Up/Down to get it into position). I know I'd definitely get use out of that, I pretty regularly author discs with 30 or 40 titles to them - and for one showcase disc, I actually had to deal with 70. That one was actually the first real disc I used AVStoDVD for.

I guess the only issue with additional buttons for all of that would be where to fit them in on the main window, in such a way that it's still able to fit the screen (I'm making the basic assumption that the targeted screen size is 1024x768 or similar vertical resolution). Perhaps a single new button to bring up a dialog meant strictly for track ordering, which then has all those Move options available, would be a more suitable choice.

Since this is turning into a general suggestion post, there were a few other non-related ones that I'd thought of:

• Using Matroska .xml chapters with the 'Import Chapters' function. It can read them just fine if you give it an MKV file that has chapters (because MediaInfo reads the chapter times instead?), but if the chapters are in that format and the file you give to AVStoDVD is MPEG-2, it takes several steps to convert that format properly over to a Celltimes file. Being able to use the .xml itself (as gotten from mmg's Chapter Editor or from mkvextract chapters file.mkv > chapters.xml) would eliminate all those extra steps.

• In the menu editor, the ability to change the font, size, and weighting (bold, italic, etc.) settings across ALL the Text items instead of having to go and do it one-by-one, or needing to edit the Template file itself to change those settings. I felt like I was getting a cramp in my hand because I had to constantly deal with this for some discs I was authoring the other day.

• Also with the menu, the size of the backgrounds in the Templates is 720x405. I don't know how the menu generation steps go (and thus I could be completely off here), but wouldn't text labels and so forth on the menus be clearer if the size of the backgrounds were the same size as the standard being used? Since it's 16:9, that would be 848x480 for NTSC and 1024x576 for PAL (or just go with 1024x576 and for NTSC, just resize down to 848x480 at generation time before doing any more overlaying of text/buttons/etc.). I bring this up because on some projects I thought that the non-background elements looked a tad blurry, and I don't know if that's because they were overlayed onto the background at 720x405 and then rescaled up to 720x480/576 or if it was just the set of options (font/size/weight) I used on them. If that is the way it gets done, then having the backgrounds at 1024x576/848x480 would only necessitate a resize in the horizontal direction, and hopefully, better-looking text/images. If that isn't how it happens, then feel free to correct me.

• Yet again with the menu, it would be nice to have some auto-alignment functions so that the labels themselves are easier to manage in relation to the background and to each other. For this (or the font/size/weight options) it might be beneficial to allow selecting more than one label at a time. Having the grid and axis overlays help, but that still requires editing the x,y positions manually or dragging the stuff around by eye - and then there's still no guarantee the items will be aligned to each other.

[harnarn]

Encode of video and (predemuxed ) audio went really good.
but no subpicture in vob after encode???

As previous mentioned, don't use PAL speedup was not god.
the vid becomes so to say like, the fps is missing 1 frame/sec, stuttering and has always been so for me with this app..therefore i always use pal speed up, gives super result.
even better flow then the original...

So any suggestions how to is appreciated...

<2010-09-14 22:17:38>
START PROCESS
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<2010-09-14 22:17:38>
PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: PAL
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: ISO UDF Image
DVD Label: DVD
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: E:\encode\Matroska
Delete Temp Process Files: Yes
Delete Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Lanczos4Resize
Video Resolution: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Level 1: 6500
Video Profile Level 2: 5000
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 1
PAL SpeedUp: 1
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: True
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 448
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
DVD Audio Language: EN - English
DVD Subs Language: EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Arial 10pt
Chapters Interval: 10
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: SAMSUNG DVDWBD SH-B083L SB00
DVD Burning Speed: 2x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Save Log file: 1
Save General Settings: 0
Unload ActiveMovie library: 0
Adjust ffdshow mixer: 1
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<2010-09-14 22:17:38>
TITLE 1 SOURCE FILES
Video: E:\Newsbin\newsbin.png\Iron Man 2 2010 1080p BluRay x264 DTS WiKi\iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.mkv
Info: AVC - 12410 kbps - 1920x816 - DAR 2,353 - 23,976 fps (CFR) - Progressive - 2:04:39 hours - 179321 frames
Audio 1: E:\Newsbin\newsbin.png\Iron Man 2 2010 1080p BluRay x264 DTS WiKi\iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.3.dts
Info: DTS - 1536 kbps - CBR - 6ch - 48000Hz - 24bit - 2:04:35 hours - External
Subs: E:\Newsbin\newsbin.png\Iron Man 2 2010 1080p BluRay x264 DTS WiKi\Iron.Man.2.2010.1080p.BluRay.x264.DTS-WiKi.sst
[MediaInfoLib - v0.7.35]
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<2010-09-14 22:17:38>
AVISYNTH SCRIPT
Import("C:\Program Files (x86)\AVStoDVD\Lib\A2DSource.avsi")

Video = A2DVideoSource("E:\Newsbin\newsbin.png\Iron Man 2 2010 1080p BluRay x264 DTS WiKi\iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.mkv", CacheFolder="C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp", VFR=false)
Audio = A2DAudioSource("E:\Newsbin\newsbin.png\Iron Man 2 2010 1080p BluRay x264 DTS WiKi\iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.3.dts", CacheFolder="C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp")

Video = Video.ConvertToYV12
#Using AssumeFPS() to upsize FPS
Video = Video.AddBorders(0,112,0,112)
Video = Video.Lanczos4Resize(720,576)

AudioDub(Video, Audio)

AssumeFPS("pal_film", sync_audio=true).ResampleAudio(48000)
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<2010-09-14 22:17:38>
START VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Encoding Profile: HCenc VBR 2-pass
Target Video FileSize: 3922 MB
HCenc Parameters: -ini "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.HCenc.ini"
HCenc ini file:
*INFILE C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.avs
*AVSRELOAD
*OUTFILE E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.m2v
*LOGFILE C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.HCenc.log
*MAXBITRATE 9000
*BITRATE 4399
*PROFILE BEST
*ASPECT 16:9
*PROGRESSIVE
*TFF
*BIAS 40
*DC_PREC 9
*MATRIX HVSBEST
*AQ 1
*LUMGAIN 3
*SMP
*PRIORITY IDLE
*WAIT 2
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<2010-09-15 00:21:21>
END VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Created File: E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.m2v (3763,4 MB)
OUTPUT VIDEO INFO: MPEG-2 Video - 4431 kbps - 720x576 - DAR 1,778 - 25 fps (CFR) - Progressive (TFF) - 1:59:32 hours - 179319 frames
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<2010-09-15 00:21:21>
START AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS FOR LARGE AUDIO TRACKS (Track 1)
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.avs" -y -vn -acodec ac3 -ac 6 -ar 48000 -ab 448k "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.ac3"
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<2010-09-15 01:51:02>
END AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
Created File: E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.ac3 (383,1 MB)
OUTPUT AUDIO INFO: AC3 - 448 kbps - CBR - 6ch - 48000Hz - 16bit - 1:59:32 hours
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<2010-09-15 01:51:02>
END SUBS ENCODING OPERATIONS
Created File: E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.sup (0,1 MB)
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<2010-09-15 01:51:02>
START DVD MENU BUILDING OPERATIONS
DVD Menu settings: Style 0, DAR 1, Titles Format 1, Video BitRate 6000, Menu Pages 1, Menu Titles 1
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<2010-09-15 01:52:09>
END DVD MENU BUILDING OPERATIONS
Created File (Menu Page 1): E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_MenuPage1.bmp (1,2 MB)
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<2010-09-15 01:52:09>
START DVD AUTHORING OPERATIONS
BatchMux Parameters: -arglist "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_BatchMux.ini"
BatchMux ini file:
-d "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2\VIDEO_TS"
-mxp "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_MuxMan.mxp"
-l "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_MuxMan.log"
-muxman "C:\Program Files (x86)\AVStoDVD\MuxMan"
-prio LOW
-v "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.m2v"
-vidmode LB
-a1 "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_1.ac3"
-a1lang en
-s1 "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki.sst"
-s1lang en
-s1ext 1
-cellfr "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_Chapters.txt"
-progfr "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_Chapters.txt"
-chapfr "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_iron.man.2.2010.1080p.bluray.x264.dts-wiki_Chapters.txt"
-SEG2v "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_MenuPage1.bmp"
-SEG2vidmode LB
-SEG2s1 "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2_Menu.sst"
-SEG2s1dmode WIDE_LB
-SEG2hlmnu "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_MenuPage1_Buttons.mnu"
-SEG2hlcsm "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_HighlightScheme.csm
-hcn "C:\Users\Mikael\AppData\Local\Temp\DVD_2_BatchMux.hcn"
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<2010-09-15 01:55:18>
CHECK DVD SIZE
DVD Folder (actual) Size: 4232,3 MB
vs Estimated Size: 4450 MB -> 4,9% undersize
vs Assets Size: 4147,7 MB -> OK
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<2010-09-15 01:55:18>
END DVD AUTHORING OPERATIONS
Created Folder: E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2 (4232,3 MB)
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<2010-09-15 01:55:19>
START ISO IMAGE BUILDING OPERATIONS
ImgBurn (ISO) Parameters: /mode isobuild /buildmode imagefile /src "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2\VIDEO_TS" /dest "E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2.iso" /volumelabel "DVD" /overwrite yes /noimagedetails /start /close
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<2010-09-15 01:58:03>
END ISO IMAGE BUILDING OPERATIONS
Created File: E:\encode\Matroska\DVD_2.iso (4232,9 MB)
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<2010-09-15 01:58:03>
Log file created by AVStoDVD Release 2.3.2 Alpha build 100913
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Mediainfo on vob1

General
Complete name : I:\VIDEO_TS\VTS_01_1.VOB
Format : MPEG-PS
File size : 1 024 MiB
Duration : 28mn 37s
Overall bit rate : 5 002 Kbps

Video
ID : 224 (0xE0)
Format : MPEG Video
Format version : Version 2
Format profile : Main@Main
Format settings, BVOP : Yes
Format settings, Matrix : Default
Duration : 28mn 37s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 4 454 Kbps
Nominal bit rate : 9 000 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 576 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate : 25.000 fps
Standard : PAL
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Scan order : Top Field First
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.430
Stream size : 912 MiB (89%)

Audio
ID : 128 (0x80)
Format : AC-3
Format/Info : Audio Coding 3
Mode extension : CM (complete main)
Duration : 28mn 37s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 448 Kbps
Channel(s) : 6 channels
Channel positions : Front: L C R, Side: L R, LFE
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 91.7 MiB (9%)

Encode of video and (predemuxed ) audio went really good.
but no subpicture in vob after encode???

As previous mentioned don't use PAL speedup was not god.
the vid becomes so to say like the fps is missing 1 frame/sec, stuttering and has always been so for me with this app..therefore i always use pal speed up, gives super resolute.
even better flow the original...


Iron.Man.2.2010.1080p.BluRay.x264.DTS-WiKi.sst

st_format 2
Display_Start non_forced
TV_Type PAL
Tape_Type NON_DROP
Pixel_Area (2 576)
Display_Area (0 2 719 574)
Color (9 3 4 3)
Contrast (15 15 15 0)
E2 (0 0 255 ===)
E1 (255 0 0 ===)
PA (0 0 0 ===)
BG (255 255 255 ===)
Directory .
#####################################################
SP_NUMBER START END FILE_NAME
1 00:00:08:24 00:00:11:05 Been a while since I was up here in front of you.
2 00:00:11:07 00:00:14:06 Maybe I'll do us all a favour and just stick to the cards.
3 00:00:17:05 00:00:19:19 There's been speculation that I was involved in the events that occurred
4 00:00:19:21 00:00:21:05 on the freeway and the rooftop...
5 00:00:21:07 00:00:24:05 Sorry, Mr Stark, do you honestly expect us to believe that
6 00:00:24:07 00:00:27:18 that was a bodyguard in a suit that conveniently appeared,
7 00:00:27:20 00:00:30:10 despite the fact that you sorely despise bodyguards?
8 00:00:30:12 00:00:31:14 Yes.
9 00:00:31:16 00:00:36:03 And this mysterious bodyguard was somehow equipped
10 00:00:36:05 00:00:39:12 with an undisclosed Stark high-tech powered battle...
11 00:00:39:14 00:00:41:11 I know that it's confusing.
12 00:00:41:13 00:00:44:23 It is one thing to question the official story, and another thing entirely
13 00:00:45:00 00:00:48:02 to make wild accusations, or insinuate that I'm a superhero.
14 00:00:50:24 00:00:54:03 I mean, let's face it, I'm not the heroic type.
15 00:00:54:05 00:00:56:08 A laundry list of character defects,
16 00:00:56:10 00:00:59:03 all the mistakes I've made, largely public.
17 00:00:59:05 00:01:00:19 The truth is
18 00:01:05:13 00:01:07:10 I am Iron Man.
19 00:01:17:19 00:01:18:22 Ivan.

[MrC]

Originally Posted by harnarn

And one more thing if possible adding more then one subtitle

It is already in the ToDo list

Originally Posted by larrylumbo

In the newest alpha, my last two conversions
HCenc 0.24 hangs and wavi hangs both when finishing.

please post the log file of the project with problems.

Originally Posted by qyot27

Although, for the main window, maybe a total of 5 options would be better - Move Up, Move Down, Move to Top, Move to Bottom, and Move to # (to move the Title to any arbitrary position in the list; for those cases where the Top/Bottom options throw it way too far, and it would be uncomfortable to keep having to click Up/Down to get it into position).

Will think about that

Originally Posted by qyot27

Using Matroska .xml chapters with the 'Import Chapters' function. It can read them just fine if you give it an MKV file that has chapters (because MediaInfo reads the chapter times instead?), but if the chapters are in that format and the file you give to AVStoDVD is MPEG-2, it takes several steps to convert that format properly over to a Celltimes file. Being able to use the .xml itself (as gotten from mmg's Chapter Editor or from mkvextract chapters file.mkv > chapters.xml) would eliminate all those extra steps.

Good suggestion. I will add xml chapter format support to the ToDo list.

Originally Posted by qyot27

In the menu editor, the ability to change the font, size, and weighting (bold, italic, etc.) settings across ALL the Text items instead of having to go and do it one-by-one, or needing to edit the Template file itself to change those settings. I felt like I was getting a cramp in my hand because I had to constantly deal with this for some discs I was authoring the other day.

Take a look at the 'Lock' icon

Originally Posted by qyot27

Also with the menu, the size of the backgrounds in the Templates is 720x405. I don't know how the menu generation steps go (and thus I could be completely off here), but wouldn't text labels and so forth on the menus be clearer if the size of the backgrounds were the same size as the standard being used? Since it's 16:9, that would be 848x480 for NTSC and 1024x576 for PAL (or just go with 1024x576 and for NTSC, just resize down to 848x480 at generation time before doing any more overlaying of text/buttons/etc.). I bring this up because on some projects I thought that the non-background elements looked a tad blurry, and I don't know if that's because they were overlayed onto the background at 720x405 and then rescaled up to 720x480/576 or if it was just the set of options (font/size/weight) I used on them. If that is the way it gets done, then having the backgrounds at 1024x576/848x480 would only necessitate a resize in the horizontal direction, and hopefully, better-looking text/images. If that isn't how it happens, then feel free to correct me.

The menu resolution is 720x405 for 16:9 to keep a wysiwyg approach to menu building: every elements will have exactly the same input and output resolution.
Take note that rescaling of 405 to 480/576 is only temporary, because final visualized height will be again 405 pixels.

Originally Posted by qyot27

Yet again with the menu, it would be nice to have some auto-alignment functions so that the labels themselves are easier to manage in relation to the background and to each other. For this (or the font/size/weight options) it might be beneficial to allow selecting more than one label at a time. Having the grid and axis overlays help, but that still requires editing the x,y positions manually or dragging the stuff around by eye - and then there's still no guarantee the items will be aligned to each other.

If you have already used the 'SnapGrid' feature, you would have noticed that it is just aimed to align the object to the grid. Does it cover your request?

Thanks for all the improvement suggestions. Very appreciated.

Originally Posted by harnarn

Encode of video and (predemuxed ) audio went really good.
but no subpicture in vob after encode???

Verify the sst subtitle, because it seems to be only 0.1 MB sized. Is it a Scenarist format sub file?



Bye

[harnarn]

yes it was a Iron.Man.2.2010.1080p.BluRay.x264.DTS-WiKi.sst and it was choosen from within add subtilestab..( original .srt was 0,121mb and sst is 0,107MB and u have an part of file in post above)
But never mind this.. i dl a app called SubMagic, witch is written in C++ using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and this one did the magic on open up .srt and is super easy to use ( for saving back to srt) now i have to do a final encoding after re-edit the srt and saving it to 25fps witch it did like a clock....
Because i have a feeling what the global settings for subs in avstodvd is not working properly i have reduce font to 6pt and arial to see if the output is changed in to a smaller text size on encode...

[rippn]

Not sure if this was mentioned, but also an option to have a sub default to on would be nice, I just did a conversion of ip man 2 and had to hard code the subs so they would be on upon insertion of the disk.

[MrC]

Originally Posted by rippn

Not sure if this was mentioned, but also an option to have a sub default to on would be nice, I just did a conversion of ip man 2 and had to hard code the subs so they would be on upon insertion of the disk.

See here



Bye

[qyot27]

Originally Posted by MrC

Take a look at the 'Lock' icon

Ah, I see now. Took a couple tries to figure out how to use it properly, though.

Take note that rescaling of 405 to 480/576 is only temporary, because final visualized height will be again 405 pixels.

'Final visualized height' meaning the resolution on playback? I was thinking in terms of the menu acting as regular anamorphic video does, which would mean the menu is stored at the typical 480/576 height and resized horizontally on playback, rather than vertically*.

*depending on the TV/DVD player, of course.

Like I said I wasn't sure if any perceived blurriness was a result of whatever goes into generating the menu or the text settings I was using. The text items seemed to appear crisp (albeit a tad thin-lined) on my little 13" CRT set, but on the HDTV in our living room I remember it looking rather blurred (and I do admit this could well be from what the DVD player is doing - I can't remember if I have it set to upscale to 1080p or not).

If you have already used the 'SnapGrid' feature, you would have noticed that it is just aimed to align the object to the grid. Does it cover your request?

The SnapGrid option still relies on dragging the item around, though. It may snap into place while it drags, but alignment to other elements is still accomplished by eyeballing it. I meant an option similar to what image editing tools like Photoshop or GIMP have, where pressing a single button will make all selected elements centered against the background and/or equidistant (or other various alignments) from each other without any human interaction beyond choosing the right button to push.

What I'm describing is something like this:
http://www.kirupa.com/motiongraphics/align.htm

[larrylumbo]

Originally Posted by larrylumbo

In the newest alpha, my last two conversions
HCenc 0.24 hangs and wavi hangs both when finishing.

The same video in 2.3.1, which has hcenc 0.24 also hangs after encoding is finished.

All the conversions are fine during playback.

I usually install codecs as needed, when reinstalling my os on one of my computers, I thought I would just install CCCP. Before installing individual codecs this was the pack I used to use, which was a few years ago.
I have never had a process hang on me and I use avstodvd on a daily basis. I didnt figure it out until after my initial post.
I just removed CCCP and went back to individual codecs and everything is back perfect. I am not sure what the deal was all my settings are the same in ffdshow compared to the control panel ffdshow in CCCP.
Keep up the great work !

[MrC]

@qyot27

your suggestion to implement a "Photoshop like" aligning feat is surely challenging. I will think about that, but, please, consider that I'm not a programmer (better, I'm not a programmers team), AVStoDVD is just an hobby... so it could take looong time.


@larrylumbo

thanks for the report. Since AVStoDVD relies a lot on properly configured directshow decoding chains, I always suggest to get rid of codecs pack and install *only* ffdshow stable releases.



Bye

[harnarn]

I have done several encodes now with your app but 1 thing still eludes me.Sub global settings
In your program folders under subtitlecreator is a couple of .xml sheets witch totally overrules the global settings .
After changing these values i can alter the font size, font but not get ride of outline so this scratchy looking subs after encode are nice and clean i like always to have Arial normal caption as result.
if you take a look at subcreator gui u can ad a transparent option to outline setting so the outline tearing of subs goes away .

Can you make an xml sheet for this so i can use it ??
cheers

[MrC]

@harnarn

AVStoDVD (re)creates the \SubtitleCreator\Data\Profiles.xml at runtime (for safety), so no way to edit it. Best option would be to have the possibility to customize subs format in the GUI: already in the ToDo list. Current workaround: open your srt file with SubtitleCreator, edit it as you like, save it as sup file. Then load the sup file into AVStoDVD.

Let me know



Bye

[harnarn]

Originally Posted by MrC

@harnarn

AVStoDVD (re)creates the \SubtitleCreator\Data\Profiles.xml at runtime (for safety), so no way to edit it. Best option would be to have the possibility to customize subs format in the GUI: already in the ToDo list. Current workaround: open your srt file with SubtitleCreator, edit it as you like, save it as sup file. Then load the sup file into AVStoDVD.

Let me know



Bye

Thanks for info will try this out ...
but editing the .xml is possible u must edit both in subcreatorfolder but the only thing i don't knew is parameterset for outline-transparency=true ..
cheers

[AirZonk!]

Originally Posted by larrylumbo

The same video in 2.3.1, which has hcenc 0.24 also hangs after encoding is finished.
All the conversions are fine during playback.

Greetings fom Germany, same Problem here.

After the HCenc 24 is finished (100%) a windows message popup "the mpeg2 encoder wont work anymore"

After i close this message the work goes on. The result is a dvd that works perfect, no problems. I think there is only a problem at closing the mpeg2 encoder...

Avisynth 2.58
Haalisplitter from 14.08.2010
ffdshow from 19.09.2010
Avs2dvd 2.3.2 Alpha from 10.09.2010
Windows 7 64Bit

Any idea?


EDIT:

Ok,found a solution.
it was a problem with HCenc 0.24...
Hank did a 0.25beta release that fixes this problem. U can get it here:
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/HC

Version history:
HC025 beta
I've found a source which always hangs at the end, the encode finishes OK but HCenc will not close.
If you want to use it with the HC024 release, just rename this new HC025 beta.

Ill test it!

[MrC]

@AirZonk!

thanks for the info. Please let us know what's the result of your test.



Bye

[AirZonk!]

It works!

Hank Releases an New bugfixed Final, 0.25:
http://hank315.nl/files/HC_025/HC025.zip