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Huckleberry
10th January 2003, 08:40
1st of all, thanks for the pie :)
I have read the forum for a while now and have found answers to most, if not all of my questions here. I havent had a question worth posting or one that someone hasnt already asked before since I started encoding some 8-10 months ago. Great job on the forum fellas. Its really been a big help for me. I dont really have any good questions like some I have read on here, but none the less I am curious about a couple of things. CCE works fine for me on most encodes. I have had only a few probs encoding using the basically "default setup" for DVD2SVCD. Band of brothers 7th episode, 1 or 2 sopranos episodes, ect come to mind. I have never tried the TMPG option for encoding (i will soon). I have had to change to the vstrip option once or twice to get a successful rip of some DVD's. I just installed TMPGnc and was wondering if it was kind of like the scenario I had with vstrip. I use internal routines until they just wont do the job, then I try vstrip. I usually have success this way. Is this the scenario I should use for TMPGnc? Use CCE until I find something it wont do, then try TMPGnc? Im somewhat of a self-taught newb at this, so if this is a "already covered" or stupid question altogether, my apologies. I was just unclear from my forum reading if TMPG had any advantages over CCE (faster, or better quality) or what. If both will work which should I use?
I was also curious as to how many successful encodes some of the other forum posters have done. Between me and a friend of mine we have about 350 successful encodes (mostly classic movies). How many do some of the people on this forum have encoded I wondered? Now lastly, I just encoded a screener copy of brotherhood of the wolf. as you might guess, it had the 1-800 no copies warning and a couple of other things flashing/scrolling across the screen when I watched the screener DVD in my apex 1500 on my TV. To my surprise though, after I ripped/encoded/burned it, all no-copy scrolling/screener messages were gone. I wound up with a perfectly clean movie. I have tried a couple of "screener" DVD's and they always have the text scrolling/flashing. Why did this one (brotherhood of the wolf) wind up clean I wonder? Is it luck of the draw so to speak with screener copies? Thanks again for the pie :)

hoozdapimp
10th January 2003, 11:23
Originally posted by Huckleberry
1st of all, thanks for the pie :)
I have read the forum for a while now and have found answers to most, if not all of my questions here. I havent had a question worth posting or one that someone hasnt already asked before since I started encoding some 8-10 months ago. Great job on the forum fellas. Its really been a big help for me. I dont really have any good questions like some I have read on here, but none the less I am curious about a couple of things. CCE works fine for me on most encodes. I have had only a few probs encoding using the basically "default setup" for DVD2SVCD. Band of brothers 7th episode, 1 or 2 sopranos episodes, ect come to mind. I have never tried the TMPG option for encoding (i will soon). I have had to change to the vstrip option once or twice to get a successful rip of some DVD's. I just installed TMPGnc and was wondering if it was kind of like the scenario I had with vstrip. I use internal routines until they just wont do the job, then I try vstrip. I usually have success this way. Is this the scenario I should use for TMPGnc? Use CCE until I find something it wont do, then try TMPGnc? Im somewhat of a self-taught newb at this, so if this is a "already covered" or stupid question altogether, my apologies. I was just unclear from my forum reading if TMPG had any advantages over CCE (faster, or better quality) or what. If both will work which should I use?

regarding SVCD it is generally accepted that CCE will produce better looking video, and also do it in a much faster time.

I was also curious as to how many successful encodes some of the other forum posters have done. Between me and a friend of mine we have about 350 successful encodes (mostly classic movies). How many do some of the people on this forum have encoded I wondered?

Hmm, for someone that has done 350+ rips, I would suspect you must have hit just about every problem known to man, but anywho, I'm not here to question you. As for me I have done about 100 encodes. About 80 of them were my entire collection of DVD's and the rest were for friends who either lacked the necessary hardware to accomplish this in respectable time, or those who were clueless with computers.

Now lastly, I just encoded a screener copy of brotherhood of the wolf. as you might guess, it had the 1-800 no copies warning and a couple of other things flashing/scrolling across the screen when I watched the screener DVD in my apex 1500 on my TV. To my surprise though, after I ripped/encoded/burned it, all no-copy scrolling/screener messages were gone. I wound up with a perfectly clean movie. I have tried a couple of "screener" DVD's and they always have the text scrolling/flashing. Why did this one (brotherhood of the wolf) wind up clean I wonder? Is it luck of the draw so to speak with screener copies? Thanks again for the pie :)

I have definitely never heard of this before...unless the messages were subtitles or something that is pretty weird. I can't speak for myself seeing how I never have had my hands on DVD screeners.

winxi
10th January 2003, 15:25
Hello!

I have had only a few probs encoding using the basically "default setup" for DVD2SVCD. Band of brothers 7th episode, 1 or 2 sopranos episodes, ect come to mind.
Could you please describe the problems, you had with the 7th ep. of Band of Brothers? (in case you mean problems with "probs") ;)

greets, winxi

Huckleberry
10th January 2003, 19:22
The problem I have with band of brothers is the 7th episode. Its an action scene in the snow. The picture jumps around and will almost roll. Also the sound drops in and out when it does this. I didnt have any problem ripping or encoding this episode that I know of. I did it just like the other episodes. Also tried re-ripping/re-encoding on a couple different computers with the same result. I tried it on a few different home players and its worse on some than others. (Apex 500,1100,1500,1200 models). It plays fine on my computer, It just doesnt seem to like home DVD players. Thanks for the above replies. Persistance seems to be the key to success so ill keep on trying. Im living proof that 350 (or so) encodes doesnt make anyone an expert. :P