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Old 20th March 2010, 18:44   #1241  |  Link
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what are those temp files made in C:\ ?

they are named like:20_16_28_59

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CMpeg4Splitter::BreakConnect() Enter
Nothing made by AVStoDVD...



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Old 21st March 2010, 01:13   #1242  |  Link
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well...that was some Corel POS that I had not gotten rid of...wonder why those files were made when your proggy ran? In any case I got rid of it..sorry

Have you thought about adding an HC dialog for bias?
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Old 21st March 2010, 16:58   #1243  |  Link
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Have you thought about adding an HC dialog for bias?
Do you mean put bias setting in HCenc Advanced Options? As a matter of fact bias is dynamic, output of following formula:

Bias = Int(VideoBitRate[Mbps]) x 10



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Old 22nd March 2010, 03:29   #1244  |  Link
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Mr.C, have you tested this on 64-bit?

I just installed Win 7 64-bit, and when I try to preview the input file, A2D hangs.

I am running 64-bit Avisynth from JoshyD.
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Old 22nd March 2010, 11:26   #1245  |  Link
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Mr.C, have you tested this on 64-bit?

I just installed Win 7 64-bit, and when I try to preview the input file, A2D hangs.

I am running 64-bit Avisynth from JoshyD.
Not yet. In fact AVStoDVD claims to be a 32-bit software which supports Windows XP/2000/Vista.

BTW, have a look at Help/FAQ/General/Q1.5 because W7 takes control of directshow filters.



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Old 22nd March 2010, 19:01   #1246  |  Link
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Ah, okay then.

Then I have a quite obvious feature request:
* Support for 64-bit.

A number of filters have already been converted to support 64-bit already, so there is some hope for AVStoDVD.
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Old 23rd March 2010, 16:42   #1247  |  Link
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Hey there... my 1st post here

I guess it is kind of a bug-report when trying the menus:

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Background = ImageSource("C:\avs2dvd\Menu\Templates\Menu in Black\Background.bmp",fps=29,97,start=0,end=0)
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PlayAll = ImageSource("C:\avs2dvd\Menu\Templates\Menu in Black\PlayAll.bmp",fps=29,97,start=0,end=0).Lanczos4Resize(104,32)
For some reason the framerate is written using a comma and not a decimal sign (dot), so the Preview and menu-background generation refuses to work

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@deank

welcome here and thanks for the bug report (already known, right now the only workaround is to setup "." as decimal separator instead of ","). Next release will have a fix.



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For the brave only, here you are 2.3.0 *very* alpha release.

Change log:

- Added multi audio tracks encoding and authoring capability
- Added 'AVS DownSize Filter' and 'AVS UpSize Filter' options in 'Preferences'/'Encoding' (removed 'AVS Resize Filter')
- Added *PULLDOWN command in HCenc to directly convert NTSC footage from 23.976 to 29.97 fps
- Added DVD Menu highlights colors customization
- Added check on DVD Folder size vs DVD Assets size
- Changed Video Encoding Profile "HCenc OPV 1-pass" to "HCenc VBR 1-pass" (using internal HCenc 0.24 quantizer predictor)
- Changed default HCenc LUMGAIN option from "0" to "1"
- Improved handling of 50 and 59.94 fps based video footage
- Improved support to UTF-8 subtitles format (.srt)
- Improved DTS audio track support
- HCenc updated to 0.24 beta 16-02-2010
- FFmpeg updated to r22140
- MediaInfo updated to 0.7.29

have fun and report any new bug.



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Old 24th March 2010, 03:21   #1250  |  Link
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Okay, ignore my 64-bit request for now. I've thrown in the towel and gone with 32-bit for now. I'll download and test the latest AVStoDVD.
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Old 24th March 2010, 21:10   #1251  |  Link
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I did a downsize and an upsize conversion with QuEnc and an upsize conversion with HCenc one pass. I didn't encounter any issues. I like the twin sizer drop down boxes. Now I can set my sizers as default and forget it.

Only request on subtitles would be some adjustment to subtitle font sizes at least. Tahoma 18 is just huge. On some conversions with soft subs I would get artifacts at the bottom of the screen with the same color as the sub so it must be a side effect of the large subs. I changed the .xml settings to 16 and especially hard subbed the subtitles come out nicely.
But that's no biggie. Once changed it's set until I update the app.

On the HC lumen setting change, I haven't looked at the output on a stand-alone yet.

The only other issue can be a bit tricky is the audio processing. If I use the default aften settings and there's an error, the command window hangs. To proceed requires the manual intervention of clicking the close button, then the audio will be processed and all with be well... but if you are doing it unattended, like watching a movie, it will just hang there forever until you notice and click the mouse. If there was a way to detect the hang and revert to plan B audio processing that would eliminate popping in just to see if the audio conversion hung. One could just leave it with confidence.

Thanks for the update. One positive side effect I did notice, on my dual core sometimes when the video encoder is going to be QuEnc, after starting the processing, it would often take like 10 minutes before QuEnc would pop up. The drive is churning away doing something. On the Quad QuEnc would pop up nearly instantly.

Now QuEnc seems to pop up quickly on the dual core too. Don't have a clue why.
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Just reporting that I did a successful convert of an avi to dvd (no menu) using hcenc 1 pass last night. It only took 45 min!
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Only request on subtitles would be some adjustment to subtitle font sizes at least. Tahoma 18 is just huge. On some conversions with soft subs I would get artifacts at the bottom of the screen with the same color as the sub so it must be a side effect of the large subs. I changed the .xml settings to 16 and especially hard subbed the subtitles come out nicely.
But that's no biggie. Once changed it's set until I update the app.
It's on my ToDo list (already for a long time, as a matter of fact)

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The only other issue can be a bit tricky is the audio processing. If I use the default aften settings and there's an error, the command window hangs. To proceed requires the manual intervention of clicking the close button, then the audio will be processed and all with be well... but if you are doing it unattended, like watching a movie, it will just hang there forever until you notice and click the mouse. If there was a way to detect the hang and revert to plan B audio processing that would eliminate popping in just to see if the audio conversion hung. One could just leave it with confidence
Main problem is to predict if Aften will hang, or why Aften sometime is hanging. Any hint is appreciated.

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Thanks for the update. One positive side effect I did notice, on my dual core sometimes when the video encoder is going to be QuEnc, after starting the processing, it would often take like 10 minutes before QuEnc would pop up. The drive is churning away doing something. On the Quad QuEnc would pop up nearly instantly.

Now QuEnc seems to pop up quickly on the dual core too. Don't have a clue why.
The reason could be that FFMpegSource is selected (going down in the A2DSource function tree: AVISource->DirectShowSource->FFMpegSource). FFMpegSource needs to index the source before starting to sequentially read it. It takes time.

AVISource and DSS instead don't do indexing, so they are faster, even if sometimes inaccurate.

For sure AviSynth experts could explain much much better...

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Just reporting that I did a successful convert of an avi to dvd (no menu) using hcenc 1 pass last night. It only took 45 min!
Thanks for the feedback! I agree that HCenc VBR 1-pass is amazing.



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It's on my ToDo list (already for a long time, as a matter of fact)



Main problem is to predict if Aften will hang, or why Aften sometime is hanging. Any hint is appreciated.
I don't know what's up with aften, but I notice the last line output is always "cannot write to standard error." Don't know why that would be. It's not predicting if it will hang, but realizing it has, and killing it, then moving on.


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The reason could be that FFMpegSource is selected (going down in the A2DSource function tree: AVISource->DirectShowSource->FFMpegSource). FFMpegSource needs to index the source before starting to sequentially read it. It takes time.

AVISource and DSS instead don't do indexing, so they are faster, even if sometimes inaccurate.
I never change that from the default. It's always A2DSource. It's just weird.
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I think you may be misunderstanding something. A2Dsource is a "smart script". Basically, it keeps trying to load your source through a variety of filters (Avisource, then Directshow, then FFmpegsource).

If one filter fails to open your source, then it moves to the next one. What appears to be happening for you is that your source is not being opened by Avisource or Directshow, and thus is using FFmpegsource.

What is your source? If you wanted to be able to use Directshow right off the bat, you may need to setup FFDShow such that it can decode your source properly.
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@Adub I see what you are saying. I thought it was some glitch because the same input would act differently depending on the PC. It's probably due to different settings in Shark's codecs on the 32 bit machine.

Last time I updated Shark's I probably changed the setting.
Seems to be working well.
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I'm making some research about DTS tracks compliance to DVD standard.

Is it true that DVD compliant DTS tracks must have a resolution of 16 or 20 bits, while DTS-ES (24 bits resolution, often used in BluRay) is not DVD compliant? Any audio experts can help?

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Old 29th March 2010, 22:40   #1258  |  Link
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I am trying to create DVD with multiple episodes. I was able to add all the episodes and noticed dvd contains all the episodes but I had few issues, please help:

1. Episode 4 came out first in DVD instead of sequence.
2. No clickable DVD title. (no DVD title).

I am using latest version. I am impressed with the output quality from at least mkv file.

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Old 30th March 2010, 04:39   #1259  |  Link
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In what order did you add your episodes?

Also, are you creating a menu? Is that what "no clickable DVD title" means? You want a menu?
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Yes I want menu. I select all 4 togather
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