DVD2SVCD and MuxMan

[stenews]

Hi to everyone,
Could someone explain me how to use MuxMan dvd authoring program to work with DVD2SCVD?

Thanks for the help. :helpful:

[Sir Didymus]

Ciao Stefano.

The path to the MuxMan plugin is through the sticky threads of this forum:

One click DVD Encode-andAuthor suites overview
DVD2SVCD --> Plugins for DVD2SVCD

The direct link to the discussion on the MuxMan authoring plugin is here:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=115369

I took the opportunity of your "wake up" to refresh the d/l link of the plugin, in the first page of the above thread, that was expired. Thanks for that...

Cheers,
SD

[stenews]

Grazie... :p
Just one more question.
I read somewhere that is even possible to use Imago MPEG muxer with DVD2SVCD and I was asking to me which was the better way to do.
What do guess?

Thanks again,
Stefano.

[stenews]

Sorry SD, I having this type of error what I'm missing?

Executing MkIsoFs. Commandline:
"C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\DVDAuthor\mkisofs.exe" -o "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVDImage.iso" -publisher "DVD2SVCD" -volid "" -dvd-video "C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\Movie\DVD-Files"
MkIsoFs failed for unknown reasons!

before that I have never had something like that, how can I fix it?
Thanks,
Stefano. :helpful:

[manolito]

I read somewhere that is even possible to use Imago MPEG muxer with DVD2SVCD

Hi Stefano,

yes you can (stolen from Barack Obama :) ) use Imago with DVD2SVCD, get the plugin here: http://scifi.pages.at/manolito/Imago/D2SImago.zip

But it is no longer recommended to use it. I wrote the script before Sir Didymus's phantastic BatchMux plugin appeared, and MuxMan is simply far superior to Imago. The only reason to still use Imago is when you need just the muxed MPEG file.

The MkIsoFs error you are getting now is due to the fact that the BatchMux plugin writes the VIDEO_TS folder to a different location than DVDAuthor. You can correct this with a batch file:

rem Fixes the location of the VIDEO_TS folder
rem if BatchMux is used instead of Mplex.
rem
SET workfolder=%~dp2
IF EXIST "%workfolder%VIDEO_TS" IF EXIST "%workfolder%DVD-Files\VIDEO_TS" RMDIR /s /q "%workfolder%DVD-Files\VIDEO_TS"
IF EXIST "%workfolder%VIDEO_TS" MOVE "%workfolder%VIDEO_TS" "%workfolder%DVD-Files"
mkisofs.exe %*

Save this under the name "MakeIso.bat" in your DVDAuthor folder and point DVD2SVCD to this batch file instead of MkIsoFs.exe.


If you want to burn your DVD using IMGBurn you can skip the ISO creation step altogether, because IMGBurn can burn directly from a VIDEO_TS folder, no ISO required. This can be done transparently from inside DVD2SVCD. Let me know if you are interested...

Cheers
manolito

[stenews]

Hi manolito, first of all many thanks for your reply.
Your bacth file modification is working like a charm! :thanks:

Basically, during this test stage I decided to use the iso image, so that I can just mount it with Nero Image Drive and I see if it works.

P.S.
I'd like to use your plug-in named HC_D2S but my version of HC Encoder is named HCbatch.exe, because I use it with DVD-RB.
If I install you plug-in will I be able to use HC within DVD-RB as I did in the past?
In case where I can collect all the info about all the improvements you did to HC for d2s? :helpful:

[manolito]

Hi Stefano,

you should really take the time and read this thread from the stickies: http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=714531#post714531

It has direct links to all the plugins for DVD2SVCD, and usually you can find the download URL in the first post of every thread.

My HC_D2S plugin comes with a long readme file which (hopefully) answers all your questions.

my version of HC Encoder is named HCbatch.exe, because I use it with DVD-RB.
If I install you plug-in will I be able to use HC within DVD-RB as I did in the past?

Your version of HC must then be pretty old because Hank changed the naming convention for the HC files quite some time ago. Upgrading to HC 0.23 is highly recommended.

But of course you can use the same HC version for DVD-RB and for DVD2SVCD. Just copy your HCBatch.exe to the same folder and rename the copy to HCEnc.exe.

Cheers
manolito

[Sir Didymus]

...The MkIsoFs error you are getting now is due to the fact that the BatchMux plugin writes the VIDEO_TS folder to a different location than DVDAuthor...

Hi manolito!

GULP!

I was totally unaware about the issue you have pointed out...

Since your bat script is perfectly solving the problem, I think (at least for the moment) it's definitely not the case to implement it in the plugin...

This may be helpful as a reminder (mostly to myself), about the rule #1 in the "handbook of the good programmer" stating that the presence of bugs is un-avoidable, and it is independend from the complexity of the code under development...

In a short sentence, I like the idea of leaving this little glitch unsolved in the plugin...

:rolleyes:

However, I promise I will include the code you have posted, in case a new release of the plugin will be needed for other reasons...

Do you agree?

Cheers,
SD

[manolito]

Hi SD - good to talk to you again after a long time...

steps performed are as follow:
1. the working folder (mux folder) is extracted from the muxed_out_file argument
differently than dvdauthor, VIDEO_TS folder is created inside the mux folder

This is from your BatchMux "Details about the hacking process" file, and I had always assumed that you must have had a reason to create the VIDEO_TS folder at a different location.

Anyway, it did not matter very much for me, because I usually do not create an ISO file before burning. And remember, I always found more special cases (PAL to NTSC conversions, resume using a different encoder and so on) which gave me another reason to nag you to program yet another workaround ...:p

I totally agree that you should not bother to modify BatchMux just for this. It works perfectly here since it came out almost a year ago :thanks:

Cheers
manolito

[stenews]

Right... the only thing I can say for my little point of view is a big thank to both manolito and SD to giving me a great help again to solve my problems. :thanks:

Stefano