Maybe found a small bug?

[Hoox]

I have had a problem with DVD2SVCD 1.2.1 B3 when trying to do a DVD2DVD.
Im following the guide here. (http://www.geocities.com/syzygydvd/help/index.htm)
The movie I'm trying to backup is LOTR:TT.
When I select a DTS stream as audio track 1, DVD2SVCD stops right after extracting audio without beginning processing the audio.
If I select an ac3 stream as track 1 and the dts as track 2, it processes the ac3 nicely and goes on to CCE.

Have anyone seen this too or does it work ok for you?

[Roenberg]

I have a similar problem. If soundtracks consists of eg. AC3 3/2. AC3 2/0 and a dts track, I mostly choose AC3 3/2 and dts. DVD2DVD finds the AC3 3/2 track, but NEVER the dts-track. Definitely a bug!!

No problems, if only one AC3 and a dts-track is present.

[monomer]

Originally posted by Hoox
I have had a problem with DVD2SVCD 1.2.1 B3 when trying to do a DVD2DVD.
Im following the guide here. (http://www.geocities.com/syzygydvd/help/index.htm)
The movie I'm trying to backup is LOTR:TT.
When I select a DTS stream as audio track 1, DVD2SVCD stops right after extracting audio without beginning processing the audio.
If I select an ac3 stream as track 1 and the dts as track 2, it processes the ac3 nicely and goes on to CCE.

Have anyone seen this too or does it work ok for you?

Yes, this just happened to me tonight with "Last Of the Mohicans". It was driving me nuts until I tried switching the selection order. Now its into the CCE stage...

[TCrowe]

I also wanted to confirm this DTS problem. Two nights ago I was running some quality tests with CCE/DVD2SVCD, Recode 2, DVDShrink 3.1. When I select the DTS track in my test (using Seven as test) I would get a message of "Could not find" durring the extraction process. All other AC3 tracks are fine. I tried to reorder the tracks but no matter what I try the DTS will not work using DVD2SVCD v1.2.1 B3.

[jsoto]

Hi all,

Could you check if you have a ".dts" file in D2S installation folder?

I've found it (<noname>.dts) after a similar problem trying to extract a dts track with D2S. Not sure if it was my bad or not.

jsoto

[TCrowe]

I looked in C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD and found no *.dts file.

[jsoto]

Well, I've reproduced *my problem*. IMHO, not really a bug, but a bad use of D2S. I've been able to reproduce it using recover feature and changing the initial settings (not supported).

Trying to reproduce the other problems, with no success. I've DVDs with only two tracks (dts + ac3 3/2) in the same language (Director's comments 2/0 are always in English).

Please post a log file with the problem. May be it can help.

jsoto

[Moondust]

I would like to report the exact same problem as the topicstarter.

The movie I would like to backup is Reservoir Dogs. When selecting the IFO file, the only available AC3 stream is checked. The available DTS stream is unchecked. For producing SVCD the AC3 is the only thing you need, but doing DVDR I would like the DTS stream to go with it. I ran the encode three times in a different way.

The first time I ripped the DVD with the newest DVD decrypter in IFO mode producing 1 GB files. I selected the AC3 stream as audio 1 and the DTS stream as audio 2. The final encode had both the AC3 and the DTS stream, BUT....only the first 1 GB file played on WinDVD and PowerDVD WITH sound. This was the AC3 stream. The second DTS stream however wasnt selectable. The other 1 GB files got great picture but no sound. It was displayed that the DTS stream was used. Again, no way I could switch to the AC3 stream. When loading the IFO file in WinDVD, both audio 1 and 2 were ok, BUT the AC3 stream sounded a lot louder than the DTS stream. Is that normal? Anyway, I checked the original DVD. It had the same playback problems on my pc as the encode. The first 1 GB file got picture and sound (the second DTS stream wasnt selectable) and the other 1 GB files were silent and AC3 wasnt selectable.

I thought about it how I could fix it and decided I would rip the DVD to 1 big file, again in IFO mode. This file played WITH both picture and sound in AC3. I decided to run this through D2S and came up with these tries.

1. AC3 stream as audio 1 and the DTS stream as audio 2 (both English)
--> The encoded DVDR only had the AC3 stream. No DTS stream was included. In the log no DTS stream was extracted. This is strange because I definitely selected it in the audio tab.

2. DTS stream as audio 1 and the AC3 stream as audio 2.
--> The whole process hangs when the log shows the message that the Audio extraction is completed. Nothing happens. Recovering makes no difference. It just wont go any further.

So, in the end my first try was the most succesful one. But it bothered me that there wasnt any sound when playing VOB 2 and further individually. Never encountered that before. I havent burned it on DVDR yet. I suppose the movie runs ok in both audio streams, but playback on the pc can only be done when loading the IFO file.

That's all I came across after a couple of encodes. Maybe there is someone out there knowing how this all works and why it works that way. I would be very interested in some explanation.