dvdshrink 3.1.5 final ..released Feb 12

[mrbass]

The main changes are:
1. Closed Captions retained in the backup DVD.
2. Fixed bug in still-pictures encoding.
3. Fixed selection of default playback streams in re-author mode.
4. Added warning if you try to re-author menus.
--dvdshrink

Version 3.1.5 - 8 Feb 2004
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Added warning in case of re-authoring menus: reminder that they will be converted into video clips, not menus.

Fixed closed captions: no longer stripped from output files.

Fixed navigation command for "no subpicture" in re-author. Also now use separate commands for default audio and subpicture as easier for IFOedit users.

Changed default streams GUI in re-author mode.

Fixed various problems in still-picture encoder:
- PTS/DTS set correctly
- timestamp of sequence end code recorded in NV_PCK
- 3:2 pulldown disabled

Fixed checking of DVD files when opened in "open files" mode.

Fixed ISO-639 code for Hebrew to "iw".

Automatically stop video preview when doing quick analysis in re-author mode.

Improved support for mousewheel in DVD browser view.

Backup proceeds without warning if total compilation size is within 128KB of the target size. This helps prevent warnings if automatic compression is slightly inaccurate (due to floating
point rounding error).

Added menu option to turn on/off "combined shared titles" in full-disc mode.

Changes to application startup code, attempt to fix crash on some windows 2000 systems.

Added Carlitus/Mandraker toolbar buttons.

Changed compiler switches to optimize for Pentium systems.

Changed all spellings of "disk" to "disc" (except in the case of "hard disk").

Fixed small bug in main window where selected menus could fail to deselect.



mirror at my site and I'm sure afterdawn, dvshrink.org, etc. will have it up anytime too.

[jorel]

mrbass,
thanks for the news and for your great guides too!
:)

[cptshamrock]

Does optimizing compiling for pentium systems mean AMD users are out of luck for this optimization?

[Sjab-X]

Originally posted by mrbass
Version 3.1.5 - 8 Feb 2004
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Changed all spellings of "disk" to "disc" (except in the case of "hard disk").


Click on 'Open Disc' with no dvd in your drive and see... '[NO DISK]' :D

Nice prog by the way... :)

[dvdshrink]

Damn! Missed one ;-)

[LakersFan]

Hey dvdshrink-

While you're here, thank you for your great (and free) program.


-LF

[JohnMK]

Originally posted by cptshamrock
Does optimizing compiling for pentium systems mean AMD users are out of luck for this optimization?

Nope.

[unixfs]

Hi,
for me DVDShrink 3.1.5 crashes during both the deep analysis and the encoding
phase of a DVD made of MPEG1+MP2 clips.
3.1.4 works well, though.

The only reported log is "Internal Error".

[quantum]

Fixed closed captions: no longer stripped from output files.
As far as I know, this is now the first transcoder to retain closed captions. Thanks Mr. Shrink!

[dvdshrink]

@unixfs
I sent you a PM about this. Sounds like I introduced a bug?

[unixfs]

PM replied.
As I wrote 3.1.4 crashes too, but much farther in the stream.

[geffroman]

I ran 3.1.5 on "In The Cut" last night. Title 2 (has it's own VTS) is the Black and White disclaimer about "Opinions not being that of the Studio" jargon that plays before the movie (Title 1) after hitting the play button.

After using 3.1.5 this clip was just looping endlessly... I redid it in 3.0.5 and this did not occur.

Regards... Jeff

EDIT - It appears to hang up where the SUB Languages change from English to French. French Sub was removed in the process. Stripping out the SUB should not cause this to hang up and loop.

[duwde]

Hi Dvdshrink, everyone else.

I've been using dvdshrink for a long time and never had any problem whatsoever on it. I always used nero manually to burn my dvds using the dvd_video profile.

Since version 3.1.5, I decided to try the "burn with nero" internal feature (I have a Pioneer 106D dvd-writer). I selected 1x write speed for maximum compatibility. The option "Book type DVD-ROM" was checked and disabled (so I couldn't change it). And the option "Burn at least 30mm (DVD+R/RW high compatibility mode)" was checked and I left it that way.

The question is, as I was writing in a DVD-R (not dvd+r), should I use this second option ? What exactly does it do ? Where in nero is this option avaible ?

The point is, I know this was probably the hell of a coincidence, but after I tried the 1st dvd burning internally by dvdshrink in my stand-alone player (a Pioneer DVD-525), it played fine, no problem. After that, no disc was recognized by my player (not even original ones), it says "No disc" and doesn't recognize anything (original dvds, audio cds, nothing).

So what do you guys say ? Is there a chance of this wasn't a coincidence ? Should I stop burning my dvds internally by dvdshrink ? Or am I just being paranoid ? :)

Btw, congratualations for dvdshrink, a wonderful piece of software :)

Duwde

[RB]

Originally posted by quantum
As far as I know, this is now the first transcoder to retain closed captions. Thanks Mr. Shrink!
AFAIK, InstantCopy keeps CC as well but only if you don't remove any subtitles.

[dvdshrink]

@geffroman
Thanks for the report. There have been a few reports about this kind of thing - looping menus etc - which I am investigating now. Interesting that it worked with 3.1.4. I may send you a PM to ask for help debugging this.

@duwde
Do you mean that your standalone is, like, broken now? Or does it work again after you reset?

The book-type option is only enabled for those burners which support setting the book-type. The "burn at least 30mm" option ensures that at least 1GB is written to the target disc, which can help some players to recognise the burned media. Since your typical compilation size is 4464MB, this is not usually an issue, and checking the option will make no difference in this case. If you make really small DVDs (as I often do for testing) then I recommend checking this option.

I think it unlikely that burning with Nero from inside DVD Shrink would break anything, but I can't really confirm or deny anything about this, as I know very little about what Nero does. DVD Shrink just calls the Nero library functions: what then happens is as much a mystery to DVD Shrink as it is to everyone else.

[duwde]

Hi Dvdshrink,

It's broken, tried to reset it several times, didn't help :( It was probabily a bizarre coincidence, I'll take it to the nearest pioneer service center ASAP. It doesn't recognize any disc, just keep saying "NO DISC" as if there were no disc inside it.

Did you have any other report of broken players (or any other problem) after using internal burning with nero ? I've already burned hundreds of discs using dvdshrink + nero, but never before trough dvdshrink directly.

Just out of curiosity, what nero profile do you use ? DVD_Video ? DVD_ROM (UDF) ? DVD_ROM (UDF/ISO) ?

Btw, congratulations for dvdshrink :) No other transcoder can beat it :) If you're looking for a new feature, the only I miss is the capability to eliminate some extras (I know I can set it to still pictures, and that's what I'm doing), but it would be perfect if we could just replace it with 1 second blank image, or anything like it.

[dvdshrink]

Hi duwde,

Thanks for the positive feedback. Yours is the first report of a broken player after burning with DVD Shrink, so I sure hope it is only a coincidence.

With regard burning in DVD Shrink, I'm not aware that a profile is used as such, but the following flags are specified:

"Disk at once"
"Buffer underrun protection"
"Disable eject" (if shutdown when finished is enabled)
"Booktype DVD-ROM" (if supported and enabled)
"Burn 30mm at least" (if enabled)

The compilation type is DVD UDF/ISO and Nero will automatically detect that it is a DVD-Video compilation and do some other stuff accordingly: DVD file re-allocation, etc. This may depend on the version of Nero installed.

[unixfs]

Dvdshrink,
I re-encoded the same files as mpeg2 and this time dvdshrink 3.1.5
never crashed.

Maybe a problem with Mpeg1? The codec used is the same: libavcodec
(the engine of ffmpeg).

[dvdshrink]

unixfs,

Thanks for the report. Sorry I didn't get back to you on that PM, I ran out of time. Still, seems like you solved the problem.

There may be a problem in DVD Shrink transcoding MPEG-1 video: in theory it should work, but I have never tested it! I don't have a single DVD containing MPEG-1 material. I could make one I suppose...

[geffroman]

Originally posted by dvdshrink
@geffroman
Thanks for the report. There have been a few reports about this kind of thing - looping menus etc - which I am investigating now. Interesting that it worked with 3.1.4. I may send you a PM to ask for help debugging this.

I emailed the files you requested... Hope they help...