Reauthorist fails to detect PAL/NTSC movies ?

[c3dr1c81]

I recently discovered the big3 guide on this site and tried to follow it on one of my dvd. I chose Aliens (The PAL version) because there are a lot of menus, still pictures.... and i though it would be complex enough to see how the big3 can handle this.

I ripped the dvd without any problem with DoItFast4U and tried to import it in ReAuthorist. Here the problems started :( All the videos were detected as PAL videos besides the main movie that is detected as a NTSC video. I've checked the original video and the avs of this video and it's 720*576 at 25 fps + when i want to encode with DoCCE4U it detects the main movie as PAL without a problem.

I can't ignore this because when i want to import the resulting script in Scenarist, it's obviously refusing to author the dvd :(

Is it a known bug ? Do you know how ReAuthorist is detecting if a movie is PAL or NTSC ? Is there any log file and/or additional information i can give to help figuring out what's wrong ?

[69Mws]

Did you check "Autodetect NTSC Video Type" in DIF4U?

Maybe that's causing the confusion however.

Greetz
69Mws

[c3dr1c81]

no, i didn't check this option...

[Eyes`Only]

that's really weird. I've never heard of that before. I'm not a PAL user so I haven't got much experience with it, but still I have never heard of this problem before, which makes it interesting.

[c3dr1c81]

I've tried some stuffs today, i copied the main movie to a new folder and i removed all the files besides the following ones (i have removed all subs and audio streams and modified the Stream Information accordingly).

VTS_03_PGC_01 - Chapter Information - CCE.txt
VTS_03_PGC_01 - Stream Information.txt
VTS__03_P01.P.16~9_1.AVS
VTS__03_P01.P.16~9_1.d2v
VTS__03_P01.P.16~9_1.M2V
VTS__03_P01.P.16~9_2.M2V

Then i've run ReAuthorist on this new folder and it was still detecting the movie as a ntsc file...
How the hell is it doing the detection ? :(
If i knew this maybe there would be a solution to modify the files manually to force correct detection.

[Eyes`Only]

Those are some weird filenames. Normally filenames are like: VTS__13_P01.16~9_1.M2V.

Also, you're using FAT32 (I can tell by the filenames) and it's possible that Reauthorist doesn't account for that correctly. I'd recommend converting to NTFS if you're running an OS that supports it.

[c3dr1c81]

Thanks a lot, i've renamed the files correctly and redid the dvd2avi project, and i worked. I know i should go for ntfs, but i'll have to switch only when linux write support is perfect....

Anyway that's still a bug in DoItFast4U, is there anything i can do to help figuring out what's wrong ?

[Eyes`Only]

Actually I just realized that's not a bug at all. You're using the Field Order detection routines, and DoItFast4U! reported back that "P" to mean that the video is "P"rogressive. I don't know why RA didn't accept it. I thought it handled the field order inclusive filenames fine...

[c3dr1c81]

Originally posted by Eyes`Only
Actually I just realized that's not a bug at all. You're using the Field Order detection routines, and DoItFast4U! reported back that "P" to mean that the video is "P"rogressive. I don't know why RA didn't accept it. I thought it handled the field order inclusive filenames fine...

After some more experimentation, i discovered it's not the reason why it worked... It worked because i've replaced the original m2v by the mpv renamed to m2v (and i removed the second part of the original m2v).

So no it's not a bug in DoItFast4U, it's a bug in ReAuthorist, it's not using the avs file, it's using the m2v directly and it's not accepting the splitted streams on fat32. :(

Now that i know the cause, i can easily find a trick, but it wasn't obvious at all to find it...

[Eyes`Only]

aha! I thought it was FAT32 related!