What would you like in the next version

[dvd2svcd]

Select one of the above.

[DobbyPower]

I voted for DVD chapters and got the following.

'The action you have attempted could not be performed as your session appears to be invalid. Click the below link to attempt this action again with a new session.' ( or vote for a different choice )

Are you trying to tell us something ? :)

p.s. New functions are much sexier than bug fixing, besides I've got bored, the last 3 DVD's I've done have worked first time, I've not had anything to tinker with.

[Kedirekin]

Is avi file support encode *to* an avi (like divx)? Or is it encode *from* an avi (like a TV card capture)?

[dvd2svcd]

avi to svcd

[d62ks821]

Sure would be nice to have a way to not repeat steps you don't need to in the event you want to redo some portion of the process. There is already an option to not rip the the disk again, but how about including optional switch on other tabs as well, for example, DVD2AVI, audio rip, audio encode, subtitles (yes, i want subtitles but dont want to extact them again), ...

...maybe another way to skin the same cat: Could implement an optional "makefile" like behavior, i.e., dont recreate an output file for a particular processing step if it is newer than all the input files for that particular step, and just use it as is in subsequent processing. Person using this mode would simple delete the files they wants to have rebuilt, then rerun DVD2SVCD.

[gldblade]

This is just a small idea. I like they way how DVD2SVCDs can recover from crashes. But that gives me an idea. You store in the file the last part that finished. What if you could give the user control over where in the process to start and stop so that it doesn't have to run all at once through the encoding process? I'm sure that would be a timesaver for many.

And sorry if you've already heard this one, but I can't find a feature request like this that's already posted on this board.

[DDogg]

er, guys, I am confused. Isn't this in the drop down under the crash recovery button or I am tired, confused and misreading your posts.

[Kedirekin]

Cool. Thanks! (looks like it's not getting many votes though :`( )

[gldblade]

>er, guys, I am confused. Isn't this in the drop down under the crash recovery button or I am tired, confused and misreading your posts.

I mean to basically give the user control. For example, if I wanted to stop right after the audio encoding. I wouldn't want to wait until audio encoding is done to stop/crash it. Instead, it would be nice to say, "stop after so and so point in the process". And then continue it later.

That way, you can break the process into multiple pieces and do them at different times.

But now that I think of it, that's kinda pointless.

[meisterproppa]

I hope that anytime this feature will come in one of the next versions.
Great work at all...

DVD2SVCD is the best program to create a Svcd all over the world..

:-))

[MrFaust]

from what i hear it has increased speed dramatically on ivtc processing

[sandchar99]

DVD2SVCD, the program, has made my DVD backup so much easier for me and I am grateful.

I hope that anyone who is reading this thread about future features should highly consider making a donation to DVD2SVCD, the programmer, through his website - to encourage him to keep up the great work that he has already done to this date.

I would also like to take this opportunity to campaign for the following feature: AVI to SVCD.

The reason? Even though the DVD2SVCD program is ostensibly to be used for DVD backup, we must accept the fact that possibly it is being used in other ways, i.e. to make copies of DVDs that were not bought (rented or borrowed). Also, perhaps the most critical component, CCE 2.5, is being obtained, sometimes in less than legal fashion.

With this in mind, to have the ability to easily convert home movies (Digital Video (DV) which is in AVI format) would at least allow those of us to make use of these powerful tools, DVD2SVCD and CCE, to more creative ends (and add some legitamacy) rather than merely simplify DVD backup.

Thanks.

PS I am not usually this "preachy"

[Mikldom]

I kinda like the previous suggestion of allowing user control.

I would like to see a 'automatic' function (to keep going till its done), and then a function to prompt to begin next process.. that way if we are playing on the net, or playing a game or something... we won't mess up the process when the program is trying to send keystrokes..

Then be able to mark the auto/user control at any time... that way, when a dvd is ripping with Vstrip, I can go play diablo or something, and when it is done, it will then do a pop up to continue... that way I won't screw up a keystroke send..

I would like to process movies 24-7... I have cable modem at home and at the office, I can control either computer via remote control and both have dvd drives in there......

i know that it makes more sense to just process at night when I am in bed... but I want to process during the day too..

I (like most here) run Win2k pro.. I wish there was a way of "Protecting" that process or give it a "virtual machine" to run on.. that way, I can minimize the "virtual machine" and it will process and need no input..

Just some ideas..

Oh, I love the program!!!! the only dvd I have had syncing issues with to date is "The Usual Suspects" I will just process it manual and let it cut out the "PolyGram" logo.. and the sound on the disc is only 192 2_0 (not ac3 5.1 channel).....

Talk to you soon.

Mike
mikldom@yahoo.com

[jmspaggi]

I explain my problem ...

I'm encoding a DVD, 2 hours films, with files from VTS_03_1.vob to VTS_03_7.vob ... After, I'm encoding another DVD, about 1 hour only from files VTS_03_1.vob to VTS_03_4.vob ... I'm not deleting existing files ... Wat's append ? The result for the second film is 1 hour films from the second films, and after, one other hour of film, from the first film !!! Is it possible to add a pop-up windows, when begenning encoding, for alter if ther is alwais existing .vobs files with the same name ?

(I hope that you understant what I mean ...)

JMS

[Mozart]

Why cannot you just delete all files before to begin another encoding?

btw: this is a newbie question-request. This thread is not about new request. Next time, choose the right place to post.

[jmspaggi]

Of course, I can delete it ! But when I forgot, and I wait 12 hours for a result, and I see it's not the good result because I have forgoten, it's a shame ! A little popup will help to prevent ...

JMS

[markrb]

My vote for a future ability/option is a way to keep the DVD2SVCD log file from being overwritten when you use crash recovery. It would sure help diagnose any problems if we could view a log from the beginning. Currently if you choose crash recovery the log file is deleted/overwritten. If it can't append then how about renaming the file to DVD2SVCD_Log.old or something?

Sorry if I was only suppose to choose from the listed items.

Thanks,
Mark

[Harp]

Hi, DVD2SVCD Community!

First of all...thanks to DVD2SVCD for this very useful program. It saves time, it really does, and this is what computers are for, right? :-) (A remark: those of you who would really like to thank DVD2SVCD should look at his page and click on the small "Donate" Button...)

The nice thing about DVD2SVCD is that (provided that people do not "mess" with the CCE settings and keep the bitrate in a reasonable range, so basically if you leave all settings as they are) you have some kind of "standardized quality". Because the source is DVD and kind of most DVDs are of good quality. And in most cases you will get very nice quality for your SVCDs with the comfort of switching languages and having optional subtitles.

Imagine what will happen when you have AVI support. People will certainly try converting these ugly 1-CD-full-of-macroblacks-uncropped-Div-whatever-so-called-Movies that you can download with almost all sharing tools. Or you get this so called "Screeners" where somebody has used his 300$ Digital Videocamera to get 320x240 "Hardcopy" of the movie and then resized it to 640x480... Yes, really, there so much crap on the Internet, you all know.

Now just imagine, this will be converted to SVCD with DVD2SVCD. Such a superior program, wasted to convert crap...and of course if you convert crap you will just get crap.

And then a lot of people will start complaining about the quality regardless of the source and that they actually *expected* that a SVCD is better quality even if the source is below-VCD quality...

Well, I don't want to complain (not at all)! I would even find it useful to convert some of my good 2 or 3-CDs MPEG4 copies to SVCD. But for the sake of this community it might be better if DVD2SVCD is still DVD2SVCD and not AVI2SVCD or CRAP2SVCD... ;-)

Just a thought...nothing more.

Cheers,
Harp

[dvd2svcd]

@Harp:

I hear you and I know what you mean. My main reason for making it possible is however to help the people who has a DV cam. Many would like the ability to make their homevideos to SVCD and be able to use their DVD player to see the home video. I know the AVI2SVCD possibility will make it possible to make crap2svcd, but if people really wants to do that, well then that is their loss not our. Anyway, I will add a little txt file to the images noting that this svcd was made from an AVI file. This however will only work when the user selects to make cd images.

[sandchar99]

Amen.

You said it, brother!

That is what I was saying in a message above -- DV (home video AVIs) to SVCD.

I completely forgot about other AVI formats (MPEG4 (DivX))that could be converted to SVCD. Whoops.

[Harp]

@DVD2SVCD

Thanks for your reply! It's amazing how you find time to answer so many forum mails (even the unimportant like mine above) and still put so much effort into the programming... :-) (BTW, I do not see that you have been rude in the forum, so no need for excuses!)

Of course, I do not want to stop anybody converting AVIs to SVCD (in fact, I might do it myself...). I just tried to predict, that a lot of stupid people will then ask a lot of stupid questions (excuse my arrogance). But you are right, that should not stop from adding useful features to the program.

Cheers,
Harp

[Zaneium]

i'd like to have the option to "not resize" to 480x480. and up the bitrate to match that of an xsvcd. my player works nicely at 720x480 with a bitrate of 4500, i wonder how hight i can go -still testing :) "DVD2SVCD" rules!! thanks to it i can now get some sleep..hehe

Zaneium

[mrbass]

xsvcd...just up the bitrates yourself to whatever you want. Not resize...just edit the avisynth file and take out the resizing parameters. All you wish for is already there.

[Zaneium]

i'm not experanced with avisynth, nor editing it :) but thanks i will read up on it. i've only been doing svcds for about 3 weeks.

[pacohaas]

If possible, i'd like to vote for secret poll option 5: SSRC support utilization of the box. I know there's a hack for it, and it works just fine, but maybe this is something you can think about for the future.(I bet you already are :))

[sorrydaijin]

first of all... great program.

I just encoded my first svcd in about 6 months and dvd2svcd did the job nicely (albeit with a couple of crash recoveries)

I know these could be unecessary options for most people, but I would like to see:

1. different bitarates for audio 1 and 2.. (English that I watch gets I higher priority than Japanese that my wife MIGHT watch, so I would go 160 and 112)

2. setting the split point(s) manually so you don't have to change disks in the middle of a climax in the story.

[xguyx]

I have the series of the movie. I wanted to convert only one episode out of the first cd which is about 3 hours long. But everytime I decode that one episode, it has to decode the audio again from the start which usually takes up to 6 hours long. It would be nice if there was an option to just decode the audio for that certain chapter and not decode the whole cd.

[nsdn]

DV (avi) to svcd would be great if it works...I have tryed doing this manually and so far the results are not very good even at 3.4M/s (max my dvd player will handle from XSVCD)...can't seem to get rid of macroblocks....yet do a dvd rip and the reults are brilliant

Also what might be neat is the option to creat a XSVCD @ VCD resolution to enable more time per disk?? I know u can do this by editing the avisyth script but....per another one of my posts....this is actually quite hard to play with without re encoding from scratch every time u want to try a new avisynth script.

Any chance in moving the "edit avisyth script" phase to just before the video encoding process then u could use the crash recovery to experiment....

[waldok]

Yes, I second that, AVI DV to SVCD would be absolutely great and would definitely make DVD2SVCD THE only software to use.

I repeat myself over and over here, but I haven't been so enthusiastic about a piece of software for years.

Absolute masterpiece, and as DDogg said, the more I use it, the more pleased I am with it :)

Donation time is here.

Waldok.

[Okar Gona]

Please DVD2SVCD don´t flame me but if got serveral questions regarding AVI (or DV) 2SVCD.

1) If you are going to implement the option (or better major enchancement) of automatically converting AVI-files to SVCD, could you give an estimation of when a first beta version will be available for use/testing :confused: ? (If not so be it:( )

2) Do you know which type (1 or 2) of AVI-files you are intending to support?

I´m running out of disk space (50 Gigabytes of edited DV-files) and I don´t want to use BBMPEG anymore for converting my movies. Definitly not after I saw the awesome results of my backed up DVD movies.

Okar Gona

[ultrabrutal]

miniDVD support would be nice. What would be needed?

For example:
x mpeg2 files
x ac3 files * number of languages
subtitles matching the framesize of mpeg2

These could be authored with DVDMaestro or Scenarist or whatever...

The future is miniDVD burned on DVD-R/RW. SVCD can never beat DVD with it's low bitrate and lack of 5.1 support

I'm not saying diss SVCD support. I'm just asking for support of miniDVD output files

[willster2k]

i would like the option to not multiplex as I like to cusotmize the cd size settings so I can set up the change of cds at appropriate points. Also the current 1.0.4 build 2 seems to start the first cd at 5 seconds ( the overlap amount) - the older versions never did this.
Thanks

[robsheldon]

Before I make my suggestions I would just like to say:-

DVD2SVCD, YOU ROCK DUDE!!! Its people like you that deserve awards, not just grimey old politicians and bloody hairdressers.


Anyway I have just 2 suggestions (but please be aware that I am perfectly happy with the program anyway).

1) I always set it to save all files in the same folder, eg I go through all the settings and change every one to save in "final movie" file. So would it be possible to have an option that would let you name a folder and then it would just throw everything including final image into this? It would just make things a bit easier and then I can like rip loads of dvd's without having to go and delete stuff and move stuff out of the folder.

2) Now this is probably a really dumb idea and not even possible, but hey, thats why you guys write programs, and I dont!!
Is it possible to have a pause button, this would pause the program imediately, whatever stage it was at or whatever it was doing.


Anyway cheers again for making my life so simple!!

[Schultz]

Originally posted by robsheldon

1) I always set it to save all files in the same folder, eg I go through all the settings and change every one to save in "final movie" file. So would it be possible to have an option that would let you name a folder and then it would just throw everything including final image into this? It would just make things a bit easier and then I can like rip loads of dvd's without having to go and delete stuff and move stuff out of the folder.

This already can be done.. in the Misc Settings Tap click the Set Default Output Folder and it will set all your folders to the folder that you select in it.
And on the pausing that could be very handy but i think in the latest version he has prompts to go onto the next section that automatically time out if you are not there.. but i haven't used it yet.. so i am not 100% sure about this..

[DVDHack]

How about a check box to remove the resize option instead of a manual edit. At the moment you need to remove the line twice in 1.04. Its really a convenience thing for people coding 720x576.

Another idea would be to enable cropping of movies, I dislike the 2.35:1 format and could live with these cropped to 16:9. Heathan aren't I??

Keep up the great work.

[moviemandvd]

Im confused, doesnt 1.05 already support dvd chapters?

[Dropbear]

Originally posted by DVDHack
How about a check box to remove the resize option instead of a manual edit. At the moment you need to remove the line twice in 1.04. Its really a convenience thing for people coding 720x576.

Another idea would be to enable cropping of movies, I dislike the 2.35:1 format and could live with these cropped to 16:9. Heathan aren't I??

Keep up the great work.

I agree with both suggestions.. A check box to remove the BICUBIC resize line instead of having to manually edit would be nice.

I would be happy with an option to crop the extreme edges off a 2.35:1 format to bring it back to standard 16:9. For those of us without 16:9 TV's, cinemascope format is just a right royal pain in the arse.

[Guigui]

It would be nice to have a description of the use of each module
So a document that describe what is done in bbmpeg, I-Author,...

[Mozart]

Hi Gui,

read newbie FAQ. Read each homepage linked there. Don't ask for anything before to do this. OK?

[Mozart]

@DVD2SVCD

I guess it is the time to lock and unstick this thread. What do you think about this? If you disagree, there is no problem if you want to undo what I did.