Problems

[Darkness008]

Hi

i've been working on Love Hina (third DVD)with ver. 1.76.

After the d2v proces is ready (I have a d2v file and the wav file) and the wav-file is ready to be played (and after that to be encoded) all players (WInAMP and the Media Player) can't play the file.

Same thing in TMPEG 2.02 the encoding won't work.

Is the problem here that i'Ve got a wav file over 2 GB ???

When this is so ... how could i split the DVd in two parts and get the correct subtitles in each part by using VOBsub ????

All other programs won't work with this frameserving stuff from VirtualDub.

Or is this also incorrect ...


Help me, please

[Darkness008]

Is nobody here, who is able to help me !!!

[Doom9]

if the wav is 2gb than that's indeed your problem. why don't you simply let dvd2avi extract the ac3 and do the ac3 -> mp3 directly in vob2mp3? it won't create any temp wav file so you will have no problems.

[Darkness008]

OK.

I've got the ac3 file.

azid and the gui, too !!

How to get this ac3 to a mp2 (not mp3; I'am encoding VCD) with a normalized sound like in DVD2AVI (with the normalize option).

Can you tell me every step or is there any FAQ for this on your site - Doom???

I cannot handle this azid program, i tried and failed many times before this thread here. Maybe I'am too dull for this.

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[Darkness008]

Hmmm ....

[Kedirekin]

Sounds like you might be biting off more than you can chew. I won't give you step by step instructions - I don't think anyone here will - but I'll shed a little light.

Does Love Hina have DD 5.1 sound? If not, you don't really need to use Azid. In any case, if your ac3 file is the same length as your >2GB wav file, the wav file from Azid will be the same size, so it won't solve your encode problem anyway.

Now, to bring it back to basics, if I'm not mistaken, a 2GB wav file would be over 3 hours long. Is Love Hina really one unbroken movie that is over 3 hours long? If not, I think you'd be better served to break it up and deal with one eppisode at a time. That way, each wav file will be less than 2 GB and you'll be able to encode using whatever tool you want.

BTW: it isn't polite to ask for step-by-step instructions. It implies that your time is valuable and ours is not. It also implies that you're too lazy to learn things for yourself.

[Darkness008]

the problem is here that the whole DVD contains 8 Episodes. I can cut them with DVD2AVI, but the problem is that i'am not able to understand the japanese language.

So i need the subtitles. And here i'am not able to use vobsub, cause vobsub rips the subtitles in whole and not chapter per chapter (that is it what i need)

So how can i get the subtitles in the m1v files from Virtualdub?

When i have two episodes the whole subtitles begin to play from start even if i encode the sixth episode. (I've got the subs from episode 1 in episode 6).

That is the main problem.

I only know the way to get subtitles in the whole movie, but not in an episode in the middle of the movie.

The guides i've read are not so good at all. This subripper thing with the OCR-Scanning isn't quite good (it's more than not good).

Here i need the help from you out there know.

[Kedirekin]

Okay, I'm glad you're willing to learn.

Here is the first thing I'd try.

Use SmartRipper to rip just the episode 6 chapters to a new set of vobs. You'll need some extra hard drive space, but one eppisode shouldn't take more than a GB or two. Smart ripper should also create a copy of the ifo file, if you need it

Once you have the vobs for just eppisode 6, try running vobsub on them. See if you get just the subtitles for eppisode 6. See if the time recorded for the first subtitle is about right.

And please realize I've never used vobsub. I use SubRip, and the process above works for SubRip. If vobsub doesn't work this way, I apologize for my ignorance.

Well lI hope that helps. Let us know what happens.

[Darkness008]

I've ripped every episode on my HDD again (seperate; each Episode has two chapters; execpt the ninth episode this one has 3 Chapters).

I made a d2v file and converted it to avi via VFAPI

Now VirtualDub comes into play ... Avi was loaded VobSub, too. Subtitles are ripped correct.

In the Vobsub main program the first subtitle begins at 21:42.414 (there must be a new beginning within the DVD), the avi in VirtualDub begins at 0.

Either way there are no subtitles displayed. I think that this problem have to do something with the play time from my (now) seperated episode and from the DVD's Episode.

I think i'am a little bit ###### up, now ... again.

There must be a way to get these subtitles in there or a way to get the ac3 file and convert this one direct into mp2 with downsampling and normalizing.

[Kedirekin]

I don't think you'll find a way to encode an mp2 from a >2GB wav file. And I don't believe there are any tools to go from ac3->mp2 directly, or from vob->mp2 either. Of course, I could be wrong.

I downloaded vobsub to take a look at it. And please remember; I've never used it, and I don't have any messed up vobs to test it with. I'm certainly *not* the best person to help you with this, but no one else is offering, so here it goes.

In the filter window for vobsub in vDub, there is an offset setting. It takes milliseconds, and it lets you put in negative numbers. In a quick test, I was able to move my subtitles back from 12 seconds to 2 seconds by entering -10000. This settings allows values up to negative -2147483648, which is equivalent to over 596 hours - plenty for your needs.

So for your episode with subs starting at 21:42.414, try entering -1300000 (note the negative sign). This should move your subtitles back by 21:40 ( (21*60+40) * 1000 = 1300000 ), so they should start 2.414 seconds into the video. Preview the output pane in vDub and see if your first subtitle appears about 2½ seconds into the video.

If that works, you'll have to find the correct offset value. You can attach the wav file in vDub (Audio/Wav audio..., select the wav file for the language you'd be listening to when viewing the subtitles), then preview the video. As soon as you hear the first spoken part, stop the preview. The vDub progress bar will show the time. Subtract this from 21:42.414 to get a first approximation of your offset. Enter it in the offset setting, and repeat previewing and adjusting till you get the subtitles displaying just where you want.

Hope that helps.