Spiderman 3 and Ipod mobile encoding?

[rhodemi1]

Just a comment really to see if this is something that I am doing incorectly, or if there is an issue with this disc and mobile encoding:

Spiderman 3 PAL
Ripped with DVD Fab HD Decrypter

Mobile encoding for ipod with standard preset for 16:9 640 x 360, 800 Kbps.

Encoding does not start, after AVS creation

Checking the audio delay with DGIndex gives 75.2 seconds (yes seconds!) audio delay.

I was able to encode with TMPGEnc, by cutting the first 75 seconds, using cut edit. This looks like 1 video frame (?) followed by a long silence of 75+ seconds?

Oh and...... :thanks: for such a fantastic piece of software!!

[Carpo]

i would re-rip it with rip it for me, see if that gives you better results

[rhodemi1]

Thanks for the reply but.........

Tried re-ripping with AnyDVD / DVD decrypter
and with Ripit4Me. Same results each time:

[22:59:22] One Click encoding activated...
-----------------
[22:59:23] Phase I, PREPARATION started.
- DVD-RB v1.26.5
- AVISYNTH 2.5.7.0
- CCE 2.62+ encoder selected.
- "Movie Only" mode is enabled.
- Output in MOBILE format only.
- Audiostream (for mobile) is 0x80
- Source: SPIDER-MAN 3
- VTS_01: 3,249,112 sectors.
-- Scanning and writing .D2V & .AVS files
-- Processed 200,168 frames.
-- Building .AVS and .ECL files
- Reduction Level for DVD-5: 60.1%
- Overall Bitrate : 3,115Kbs
- Space for Video : 3,044,692KB
- HIGH/LOW/TYPICAL Bitrates: 3,956/400/3,115 Kbs
[23:08:09] Phase I, PREPARATION completed in 9 minutes.
[23:08:09] Phase II ENCODING started
- MOBILE Encoding:
- Video: MPEG4 (640x360) 1000Kbs
- Audio: AAC 128Kbs
- Encoding: VTS01_PGC_00001.AVS
- FFMPEG ERROR: See FFMPEG.LOG
[23:08:14] Phase II ENCODING completed in 0 minutes.

Done.
[23:08:14] PREPARE/ENCODE/REBUILD completed in 9 min.

[jdobbs]

That means FFMPEG is returning an error when it tries to encode. There are a huge number of possible reasons. When the dialog showing encode status comes up, double click on the backdrop. That will put the FFMPEG "cut" the FFMPEG command. You can then paste it into NOTEPAD to review it (or post it here).

1. Are you using the version of FFMPEG that is included with DVD-RB?
2. Is it executing at all (can you see the dialog come up with results)?
3. If you know how, paste the FFMPEG command line into a DOS window so you can see the returned error.

[rhodemi1]

Cut and paste from background - note that I changed to standard presets for this one and tried a re-encode, with one click mode off (as previously I had tried with non standard pre-sets):

"C:\Program Files\DVD-RB PRO\Encoders\FFMpeg\ffmpeg.exe" -y -vcodec mpeg4 -b 704 -dc 9 -max_b_frames 0 -g 300 -me epzs -rc_max_rate 2500 -rc_buffer_size 64 -acodec aac -ab 96 -i "F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AVS" "H:\VIDEO\MOBILE\SPIDERMAN_0001.MP4"

As far as I am aware I am using the version of FFMPEG included with DVD-RB. The command line seems to be pointing to the one in the DVD-RB directory, and I have made no modifications to it.

I do not see FFMPEG come up at all

I attempted to past the above into a cmd window, but the full line would not paste past -rc_max_ . I tried writing this in manually, but again it would not go past -RC_max_ ?

Thanks very much for the help. Is there anything else I can try?

[jdobbs]

The command line looks legitimate. You'll never actually see FFMPEG run, only the completion status displayed on the same dialog from which you retrieved the command line.

Try opening "F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AVS" directly with Media Player and see if it plays.

[rhodemi1]

I get the merror message in red:

"m2AudioAC3Source:"F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AC3" is not a valid AC-3 file
(F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AVS, line 12)

This is the AVS script:

#------------------
# AVS File Created by DVD Rebuilder v1.26.5
# PGC: V0100001
#------------------
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD-RB PRO\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\nicaudio.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
S01=mpeg2source("F:\D2VAVS\V01M.D2V")
V01=trim(S01,0,200179)
video=V01
video=AssumeFPS(video,25000,1000)
audio=NicAC3Source("F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AC3", 2).DelayAudio(75.72).amplify(1.2)
AudioDub(video,audio)
BicubicResize(640,360)

Could this be anything to do with the large Audio delay?

[rhodemi1]

Well I tried choosing the second, 2 channel AC3 audio track, and this time FFMPEG started. This was with exactly the same setup as previously, which used the first 5.1 AC3 track. I will let it run and check that it finishes. Thanks for the help.

[jdobbs]

I get the merror message in red:

"m2AudioAC3Source:"F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AC3" is not a valid AC-3 file
(F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AVS, line 12)

This is the AVS script:

#------------------
# AVS File Created by DVD Rebuilder v1.26.5
# PGC: V0100001
#------------------
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\DVD-RB PRO\DGDecode.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\nicaudio.dll")
LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins\Decomb521.dll")
S01=mpeg2source("F:\D2VAVS\V01M.D2V")
V01=trim(S01,0,200179)
video=V01
video=AssumeFPS(video,25000,1000)
audio=NicAC3Source("F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AC3", 2).DelayAudio(75.72).amplify(1.2)
AudioDub(video,audio)
BicubicResize(640,360)

Could this be anything to do with the large Audio delay?I don't think so, but its possible. You may want to try opening "F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AC3" with Media Player (assuming you have a plug-in for AC3) and see if it plays. It looks like NICAUDIO is having a hard time decoding it.

[rhodemi1]

Sorry, I should have said in the last post that I already checked the Audio ("F:\D2VAVS\VTS01_PGC_00001.AC3") with PowerDVD and it played ok. I re-checked with Mediaplayer and this also played the audio ok.

The encode finished with the 2 channel AC3 audio, but the audio was way out of sync (I assume by 75.72 seconds, certainly around 75 seconds anyway).

Is this perhaps some method of preventing exactly what I am trying to do? i.e. put in a huge audio delay, which presumably the IFO accounts for during normal playback, but which can't be accounted for from the VOBs? Sorry of this is not a sensible suggestion, but as you may be able to tell, I am no expert!!

Thanks for taking the time. As I said before, I have been able to encode with TMPGenc, so please don't worry about it too much.

[jdobbs]

Hmmm.... it shouldn't make a difference, or it would be out of sync on the disc too -- but I'll do some investigating. Spiderman III isn't released in the US yet... I'll give it a test on Tuesday when it gets released.

[johnhamler1]

sector 16 has some problem.

i can not make a buck up...

[setarip_old]

@johnhamler

You should edit your post in this thread, since you later posted in the "Decrypting" sub-forum that you made a perfectly ggod rip using RipIt4Me...

[blutach]

And anyway, sector 16 only contains labels and the like and pointers to the sector containing the ISO9660 filesystem. It has nothing to do with DVD Rebuilder (http://dvd-rb.dvd2go.org/).

Regards