FilmShrink [Archive] - Doom9's Forum

karl_lillevold

8th February 2005, 19:08

This looks very nice!! Elegant UI and very simple to use, everything completely automatic, and well suited for beginners :) No choices for the expert though (filters, resize, de-interlace, inv-telecine), but I am sure this is a design decision, and the program is intended to figure these settings out automatically. I will try on some various content to see what it does.

When I first tried it, it told me most of my VOBs were invalid, after analyzing, even though the folder plays nicely in all s/w DVD players. What typically could be the problem in this case?

Then on another DVD 'folder', it analyzed the VOBs fine, and I was able to create and start encoding a job. Then, I noticed in the job file,
<rcBestPSNRMode type="bool">true</rcBestPSNRMode> is used.
I have mentioned a few times, this mode is purely experimental, and may hurt visual quality, and I would recommend to not use this.

karl_lillevold

8th February 2005, 19:31

I added FilmShrink to the Helix Producer Frontends sticky (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=82042).
What is needed to compile FilmShrink from source?

Wilbert

8th February 2005, 23:38

Apperently it contains AC3Source/DTSSource (and other) AviSynth plugins, but I can't get them to work manually (ie outside FilmShrink). Please notify me

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=89629

if you can get it to work.

opsis81

9th February 2005, 00:11

This GUI is amazing.I don't know much about RealVideo but I would call it the AutoGK for RealVideo with the beauty of DVDShrink.:D
I downloaded the source from http://filmshrink.sourceforge.net/dl.html
and in read me it says:

3. Compiling Instructions
____________________________________

FilmShrink must be compiled using Borland C++Builder 6. You have to install the latest version of the following components:

* Toolbar2000 -> http://www.jrsoftware.org/
* TBX -> http://g32.org/
* Windows XP Theme Manager -> http://www.lischke-online.de/

The path of the directories containing the include files of these libraries
must be added to the "Include Path" of the project (Project->Options->
Directories/Conditionals).

FilmShrink also requires m2tools, which can be downloaded from the project's
website. The contents of the "<m2tools>\include" directory must be copied
into "<FilmShrink>\src\m2tools".

Any patches karl_lillevold are very welcome:)

tiki4

9th February 2005, 10:59

I tested this shortly yesterday and I must say this is really impressive. This is already quite much feature complete when it comes to a beginners GUI. Also encoding straight from the DVD Image mounted by Daemon tools is very nice.
A little feature request from my side would be an option to change the priority producer is run at. At the moment it is set to normal priority which might get a little bit annoying if doing other things in the foreground. So either default to idle priority or let the user choose.

Cheers,

tiki4

karl_lillevold

9th February 2005, 18:50

Thanks for the compile info.

I tried a couple of more examples, but I always end up with invalid VOBs and so far have not been able to select the main movie, because it always has VOBs that fail analysis. I was able to encode a trailer though :)

tiki4

9th February 2005, 18:59

Did you try to encode from a mounted DVD image? This worked quite well for me.

tiki4

karl_lillevold

9th February 2005, 19:01

No, hard-drive folder with all DVD files (unencrypted).

a_afra

9th February 2005, 22:23

Hi,

My name is Attila Afra, and I'm the developer of FilmShrink. First of all I would like to thank everybody who tried out my tool. The "invalid VOBs" bug is quite weird, because I've tested FilmShrink with several DVDs (including "The Matrix", which is quite complex), and I've never seen this problem. :( If the "VTS_?? is invalid" message appeared AFTER analysing the respecting title set, then the bug is probably in the IFO parsing part. Karl, could you please send me those IFO files (or at least one of them), the directory listing and some details about the video stream (TV system, aspect ratio, framerate)? These could help me a lot in finding and fixing this serious problem.

As you can see, FilmShrink currently doesn't has advanced options for experts, but I'm working on a new version (I will release it in about 2-3 weeks) which will contain a lot of new features:

- manual crop
- custom encoding complexity
- de-interlace, inv-telecine, noise filter options
- advanced codec options
- 2 audio tracks
- external subtitles
- adjustable encoder priority

Also rcBestPSNRMode will be removed from the job template, as suggested by Karl, and I will try to fix as many bugs as possible. Of course, beginners won't have to deal with the new advanced options, because everything will remain automatic by default. I don't have too much time for testing, so if you find a bug, please let me know about it! If you have any suggestions/feature requests, post them right here!

I've noticed that a few people are interested in the new AviSynth plugins used by FilmShrink. These plugins are part of m2tools, which can be downloaded (full source code) from FilmShrink's homepage. m2input is a slightly modified version of DGDecode, and ac3input/dtsinput/lpcminput/mpainput were written by me using different decoder libraries (liba52, libdts/libdca, MAD). The cause of your problems is that the video/audio plugins can only accept files generated by m2index, the main indexer library, which is based on DGIndex. m2index first creates a "full" video/audio/subpic index, from which you can later rebuild (using the m2rebuild function) the index of a single PGC/angle, usable by the plugins. I will soon write a detailed description on how to use this package, and I will release a sample command-line tool (with source) which uses m2index.
I'm awaiting all your questions and suggestions...

Attila

tiki4

10th February 2005, 09:35

Hello Attila,

welcome on doom9.

tiki4

Edit: typo

karl_lillevold

10th February 2005, 19:24

Attila: Yes, welcome! And with quite an impressive GUI to bring along.. I sent the information you requested via e-mail. Hope it is useful.

a_afra

10th February 2005, 20:17

Thanks, Karl! I've managed to fix the bug! The IFO parsing code was OK, the problem was with the NTSC detection. I will release the fixed version this weekend.

opsis81

11th February 2005, 00:31

Welcome Attila :)
Please give me the option to encode HE-AAC at 64 Kbit or 96 Kbit.:)
Even if I select "downmix channels to stereo" the program goes for surround mode at 96 and 64 Kbit,so it encodes with cook and not racp.
I haven't been able to use racp below 128 kbit until now.
Could an option to choose between multichannel,surround or stereo could do what I want?
Also the volume of my encodes seems to be low :( .Is there any option that could boost volume and I'm missing it?If there isn't any could you add it?

a_afra

11th February 2005, 20:36

There is currently no option for boosting the volume, but I will implement it in the next version. Are you sure that the volumes in the volume control/player are all turned up? The volume of my encodes are all normal.

I will also add the option to encode HE-AAC at 64/96 Kbps in downmixing mode too.

opsis81

11th February 2005, 23:50

Everything is set to default values in my volume control/player.But it is true that I want audio a little louder than the usual.:)
Another future request:the program doesn't seem to remember my settings.It would be cool if they could be stored in registry or to an ini file.This isn't a top priority request.There are other things you should change or add first.;)

damrod

12th February 2005, 00:46

we can select only dvd folder as source?
bad luck i use mpeg2 file for my video capture

a_afra

12th February 2005, 20:56

Yes, you can transcode only DVDs.

Ishan

16th February 2005, 12:55

Too bad :(
I also do some cap using my dvb-c card wich output MPEG2/MP2 audio.
Any way to add .mpg input with frame accurate cuting? (to cut commercial and others...)
I'm manualy doing it using avisynth/vdubmod, encoding to xvid/mp2 but rmvb would be a nice option :)

karl_lillevold

18th February 2005, 21:53

any news on the update to fix the NTSC problem?

a_afra

19th February 2005, 09:31

The new version is almost done! I have very little spare time and there are still a few things to do (some new features :)). I will try to release it in a couple of days.

karl_lillevold

24th February 2005, 02:07

That's great. By the way, I tried to compile the project from source, but I got stuck since I was unable to compile TBX. Even though I followed the TBX installation instructions, patched Toolbar 2000 accordingly, compiled and installed Toolbar200, TBX just refused to compile and install. I had linker errors, include errors, and even Borland Builder crashes :( Oh well, I think I will just wait for your new version.

karl_lillevold

25th February 2005, 01:18

after a few re-compiles without changing anything, suddenly TBX decided it was time to install itself.

So then off to build FilmShrink. However, I get these error messages:

[C++ Error] uxtheme.h(176): E2146 Need an identifier to declare
[C++ Error] uxtheme.h(546): E2146 Need an identifier to declare
[C++ Error] FSKMenu.h(43): E2209 Unable to open include file 'TBXProgressBar.hpp'
[C++ Error] FSKMenu.cpp(1525): E2093 'operator!' not implemented in type 'AnsiString' for arguments of the same type

TBXProgressbar.hpp is not included in TBX-2.1Beta. Is an older or newer version required?

I resolved the uxtheme.h compiler error with the help of google and trolltech, and editing uxtheme.h according to:
http://www.trolltech.com/developer/compilers/bcpp.html

I apologize if experienced Borland users know some of these issues by heart. I have not used any of their compilers before...

karl_lillevold

26th February 2005, 01:35

getting closer...

I can remove the include of TBXProgressbar.hpp without compiler errors. Then I had to copy a bunch of files from m2tools/include to m2tools, as the readme.txt describes. Finally, source files compile.. Now I get
[Linker Fatal Error] Unable to open DCLUSR.LIB

It turns out there is a project called dclusr.bpk in
C:\Program Files\Borland\CBuilder6\Lib
However, when I build this, all I get is dclusr.obj. I resolved this by renaming dclusr.obj to dclusr.lib. Now, finally, I get back to the progressbar problem, with TBXPROGRESSBAR.OBJ not found by the linker.

I guess I need an older version of TBX after all...

TSO COBOL

27th February 2005, 12:47

very good job :cool:

a_afra

27th February 2005, 20:15

Version 0.2.8 is available for download! :D Sorry for the delay, but my spare time is quite limited. It contains lots of new features and bugfixes:

- NTSC related bugs fixed
- GUI improvements
- manual crop filter
- deinterlace and inverse telecine filters
- audio gain filter
- advanced video/audio codec options (for experts)
- encoder priority adjustment
- loss protection
- custom encoding complexity
- optimized preview
- minor bugfixes

I've noticed that there are a few problems with the recompilation of the tool, so I've included a more detailed description in the Readme file of the source code package. I hope it will be useful... I also removed the reference to TBXProgressBar and dclusr so you won't have to deal with these. If you still have problems, feel free to post your questions and I will try to help.

All NTSC DVDs should now work without any problems. I live in a PAL region, so it's quite hard to find such disks. Sorry for this huge bug.

Karl: Could you please test this new version with the problematic DVDs? Thanks.

I'm awaiting all your suggestions, opinions, feature requests and bug reports...

Sirber

27th February 2005, 20:30

- loss protection

Is that a RMVB option? If yes, it's totally useless for archive, add more haeders. It was for streaming.

karl_lillevold

28th February 2005, 19:37

a_afra: NTSC works great now. One encode completed. Very nice!

And I was finally able to compile FilmShrink, thanks to your detailed updates. A couple of additional pieces of information:

1) The diffs included in TBX-2.0 are for Toolbar2000 2.1.2 (not 2.1.4 as your readme suggests), so I used 2.1.2 instead. Seems to work.

2) I struggled a long time to compile TBX, due to linker errors (unresolved externals in bcbsmp.lib), until I discovered the solution via google: I had to add as a requirement bcbsmp.bpi. Voila, linker errors gone, and package finally installed.
http://www.elists.org/pipermail/twsocket/2002-November/017865.html

karl_lillevold

28th February 2005, 19:38

Originally posted by Sirber
- loss protection

Is that a RMVB option? If yes, it's totally useless for archive, add more haeders. It was for streaming.
That's right, but what if someone wants to create an RM file suitable for streaming ;)

a_afra

28th February 2005, 21:56

You can also use Toolbar2000 2.1.4 if you download the following diff package: http://www.rmklever.com/zipfiles/TBX214Patch.zip

DarkNite

1st March 2005, 08:27

First of all: Great work!

Secondly: "Remembering" prior analysis would be a great time saver for some people with slightly underpowered systems (or feature packed DVD's), and remove the minor annoyance of waiting another 15 minutes while the DVD folder you just set up a previous job from is going through analysis all over again just so you can back up that funky 3 minute video at the end of the DVD titles menu.

snowcrash

5th March 2005, 06:53

Thank you very much for this excellent encoding app. I've encoded a couple movies and it works great. Just one question though. Is there any way to change the settings for a job after it's already in the queue? I couldn't find a way to do that.

a_afra

5th March 2005, 13:17

There is no way to change the settings for a job after it's already in the queue. Sorry...

snowcrash

6th March 2005, 02:31

Well, I've been using it a bit more and it is a great program when it works, but there does seem to be some bugs. For the second time last night it froze up in the middle of an encode. When I got up in the morning it was stuck at 26% with CPU usage at 100% all that time. This is the 2nd time this has happened to me, didn't say anything about the first one cause I thought it was a fluke. I did not see anything in the Producer log that would be useful either. Any way we can troubleshoot this?

a_afra

6th March 2005, 10:02

I haven't seen this bug before. It is possible that the Producer causes this problem. This is very strange because the 100% CPU usage means that the Producer was working in the background. Did you check this in the task manager? Did it froze up with the same DVD (and at the same %)? What complexity did you choose? How high was the priority of the encoder?
Could you please send me the producer log? Also you should try to encode the same DVD with the same settings but in one pass mode! It seems that the app blocks right after the first pass, and it is possible that the Producer keeps encoding the content in the background without any problems, but the GUI (in a special case like this) simply cannot parse the encoding progress. If I am right, the progress indicator should remain at 0%.

hodney

6th March 2005, 16:31

Hi

Just tried the program and it works great. The results even at a low bitrate were very impressive!

Forgive my ignorance, but will this only work with Realplayer? Is there anyway of encoding to mpeg or wmv? If not, does anyone know of some software that will.

Cheers

karl_lillevold

6th March 2005, 19:19

RealVideo Playback options:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=81980

snowcrash

7th March 2005, 06:31

@karl

I'm starting to question myself now. I'm wondering if maybe the encoding was still going and I just didn't wait long enough to see the progress bar move. I could have sworn they were stalled but now I have some doubts so let me see if I can confirm that there's really a problem before we go into troubleshooting it. THanks.

PatchWorKs

7th March 2005, 10:59

What about Theora ?
Or SNOW ?

Sirber

7th March 2005, 13:33

Originally posted by snowcrash
@karl

I'm starting to question myself now. I'm wondering if maybe the encoding was still going and I just didn't wait long enough to see the progress bar move. I could have sworn they were stalled but now I have some doubts so let me see if I can confirm that there's really a problem before we go into troubleshooting it. THanks. Look in the task manager if producer.exe is using some CPU :)
Originally posted by PatchWorKs
What about Theora ?
Or SNOW ? This is a Helix Producer-based GUI. Theora is there very alpha and no snow.

valnar

7th March 2005, 15:59

Nice looking program.

From a Realvideo illiterate, are there any benefits to using the Real compression vs XVID or DivX? Just curious.

Robert

karl_lillevold

7th March 2005, 19:06

Originally posted by snowcrash
I'm starting to question myself now. I'm wondering if maybe the encoding was still going and I just didn't wait long enough to see the progress bar move. I could have sworn they were stalled but now I have some doubts so let me see if I can confirm that there's really a problem before we go into troubleshooting it. THanks.
There are some ways you can troubleshoot this:
0) Before encoding, enable PSNR log (reg key (http://www.lillevold.com/files/calcPSNR.reg))
1) in Task Manager, make sure it is producer.exe that is using 100% CPU. If not, the problem is elsewhere.
2) if producer.exe is using 100%, find rv9log.txt. Should be in producer's 'current' directory, usually either the same folder as producer.exe, or the working folder (where the source files are). a_afra should be able to let us know where, or I may try myself later today. Check if this file (rv9log.txt) is still updating. Cygwin 'tail -f' or just open in editor and check if frames are appended to the end of this file. If rv9log.txt is constantly updating, encoding is not frozen. Be patient...

Hope this helps.

Sirber

7th March 2005, 19:12

Originally posted by valnar
From a Realvideo illiterate, are there any benefits to using the Real compression vs XVID or DivX? Just curious.Yes. IMO, better quality for low and medium bitrate. Just try and judge for yourself :)

a_afra

7th March 2005, 20:28

rv9log.txt is located in the "<job>\.fskj" hidden directory (<job> is the output path of the job).

jfcarbel

7th March 2005, 21:11

a_afra, In future versions is there any plans that the user may have the ability to preview the audio streams and the ability to play the video with audio like the current DVDShrink GUI does?

Also any chance for cutting. I would love the ability to make some small clips of my favorite scenes.

Thanks for such a great app!

a_afra

8th March 2005, 13:48

You can preview the video with audio in the final step of creating a new job ("Configuration") by clicking on the Preview button in the bottem left corner of the window.

I don't think that I will have time to implement editing, but a simple trimming function (cut from the beginning and the end of the title) will come soon!

snowcrash

9th March 2005, 00:59

Today I reencoded one of the movies that I thought failed before and now I realize why I was confused. The Filmshrink progress meter doesn't seem to work. I watched the job for the last 3 hours and the progress meter showed 26% the whole time. Eventually it did finish though and I got my encoded movie. I don't really care that the progress meter doesn't work, as long as it gets the job done.

WorBry

9th March 2005, 12:21

Snowcrash. I've observed the same, although in my experience the progress meter doesnt move at all. For some time I kept aborting the job after 15 minutes or so, thinking that nothing was encoding, particularly when I could see no files in the created output folder. Personally, I think it would be helpful if this bug could be fixed.

a_afra

9th March 2005, 17:10

In what cases did the progress meter freeze (for every job or for only a few of them)? What encoding complexity did you choose? I'm trying to fix this bug, but I need your help, so please answer these questions if possible!

Also please download the following archive file which contains a debug version of "FilmShrink.exe":
http://filmshrink.sourceforge.net/FilmShrink_029_pre_debug_exe.rar

This a newer version, so it is possible that the bug won't show up, but I think it will. Extract it to your FilmShrink folder, run it, and start encoding a job with which you had freezing problems. Wait till it reaches the freezing point (+ 15 minutes) then stop it and close the app. Copy the newly created "filmshrink_enc.log" file located in "C:\" to a different directory (to make a backup) and post it as an attachment or send me via e-mail (even if the bug doesn't show up). If you manage to do this, I'm sure I will be able to fix the bug. Thanks!

the-warriners

15th March 2005, 17:45

The first disk i tried it on worked fine but ever since then i have had problems.
It keeps stopping at 26%, same as someone else reported. I was using standard settings apart form manual resize to 360x240 for pocket pc and it was running on idle priority.

It took about 1 hour to get to 26% and then remained on 26% for 30 minutes until i killed it. Producer process was jumping around cpu usage in task manager between 40 and 95% so it was still running - just that the progress bar wasnt moving.

Anything else i can do to help?

karl_lillevold

15th March 2005, 18:57

Hmm, 26% in both cases. In a 2 pass encode, that's ~about the relative percentage of time the 1st pass would take, I think. Perhaps the progress meter gets stuck after Producer is done with the 1st pass...?

a_afra

15th March 2005, 21:33

Exactly! If anybody encounters this bug, PLEASE HELP ME by following the steps (related to the debug version) described in my previous post. I will also need the "producer.log" and "producer.pref" files located in "<FilmShrink>\producer". Thanks!

karl_lillevold

15th March 2005, 21:36

I tried to reproduce it this morning, but it kept going past 26%. I aborted at 45%. I checked rv9log.txt to see that it had started 2nd pass. There is no visual indication in the GUI for pass #, right?

a_afra

16th March 2005, 15:04

Yes, there is no visual indication in the GUI for pass #, but I will soon implement this feature. Currently I'm trying to fix this progress meter bug, but unfortunately I couldn't reproduce it so far. This is why I need the files created by the debug version mentioned in my previous posts.

the-warriners: I need your help! Please check your private messages!

the-warriners

16th March 2005, 16:50

I just tried it on my work pc with your debug version and it is currently at 32%. I dont have the same dvd source however as before.

I will try it again later at home on the disk that was causing problems and let you know.

On another subject do you have any plans to add features so i can easily convert a dvd to real format in such a way as i can view it on a pocket pc (this is what caught my eye with your product originally)
It would need to resize and reduce the framerate i guess, so the output was around say 100mb

I tried it with the current version and it wouldnt play. I think this might be that the current realone player only handles real video 9 - would this be a problem? Could you target earlier versions?

Thanks

a_afra

16th March 2005, 20:49

I will soon add a Mobile/Pocket PC compatibility option, which will automatically adjust the codec settings (for example Nokia phones require RealVideo 8). Currently I don't know exactly which are the proper settings for the different mobile platforms, but if someone else does, please let me know about it!

MSlv

17th March 2005, 15:50

I have a delicate question:
Which program is better quality-wise? Filmshrink or AutoRV10?

TheResonator

18th March 2005, 19:49

Is anybody planning to adapt this wonderful program to x264 ?

karl_lillevold

18th March 2005, 20:08

Originally posted by MSlv
I have a delicate question:
Which program is better quality-wise? Filmshrink or AutoRV10?
The underlying codec is the same, so if you choose the same settings in both, you should get the exact same quality. How the two programs work, their visual appearance, and the functionality they offer, is quite different though.

a_afra

24th March 2005, 21:09

FilmShrink 0.3.0 Beta is out! The progress meter bug has been fixed, because the tool now uses the Helix Producer SDK instead of the command-line encoder. It also supports importing analysis data from pending jobs (you don't have to analyze a DVD more than once!), visual crop adjustment, more precise progress indication and bugfixes. Looking forward to feedback...

Sirber

24th March 2005, 21:20

Watch out with SDK, it memory leaks like hell with avisynth (150MB / pass).

a_afra

24th March 2005, 22:01

Thanks for the tip! What do you suggest to do?

damrod

24th March 2005, 22:44

you can

create helixproducerobject
encode
destroy object

for each encoding and each pass...since the 2nd pass will use a .pass file to encode you don't need to keep helixproducer object

i do that...and i don't have 150Mo/pass...max is 75-80mo....

before i do that i have sometimes this memory leak...so maybe it solves the problem

btw since i do batch encoding this method "free" the sourc efile (avi or avs) and i can delete it after encoding it....(before i must quit my app to delete if...the file was locked by avisynth and/or helixproducer object)

ps : at this time i'm encoding avi file (source 250Mo duration 20min)
first pass with sdk take 20-40Mo so it's cool :)

a_afra

25th March 2005, 19:56

FilmShrink 0.3.1 Beta is available for download! Using the SDK wasn't a good idea, so I've replaced it with a fixed version of the command-line encoding engine.

Sirber

25th March 2005, 20:56

There was a new release of cmd version?

a_afra

26th March 2005, 10:28

No, I'm talking about the code written by me, which controls the command-line encoder!

Sirber

26th March 2005, 14:57

If you use Delphi, get a look at TDosCommand :)

Ishan

27th March 2005, 12:17

It seems the latest beta doesn't like accentuated characters.
I did an encode wich had a french "é" in the title and the filename was cut.
name typed : "Mais qui a tué Pamela Rose"
file name given : "Mais qui a tu"
name in the title field : "Mais qui a tu"

as for feature request, a frame accurate cutting of the title would be cool (to remove credits). more than 1 audio (that was requested before i think :) ). And maybe chapter support (I don't know if RV10 support that feature but...)

a_afra

27th March 2005, 17:23

Sorry, special (for example accentuated) characters were never supported. The next version won't permit to use such characters.

DarkNite

27th March 2005, 22:38

It also supports importing analysis data from pending jobs (you don't have to analyze a DVD more than once!), visual crop adjustment, more precise progress indication and bugfixes.

It's a beatiful thing when feature requests are responded to quickly by a developer. :D

Thank you.

Ishan

29th March 2005, 12:27

Originally posted by a_afra
I don't think that I will have time to implement editing, but a simple trimming function (cut from the beginning and the end of the title) will come soon! [/B]

a way to select a chapter range for encoding would be the best, like fairuse does. ex : a job for chapter 1 to 10.
And for more than one file encodes, do this automaticaly :)

ookzDVD

30th March 2005, 06:29

@a_afra,

Is that possible to release the patch for 0.31 ?

Download the whole installer is not a good idea for small bandwidth
user like me :(

Thank you.

a_afra

31st March 2005, 20:27

FilmShrink 0.3.2 Beta fixes several GUI bugs.

a_afra

1st April 2005, 20:54

FilmShrink 0.3.3 Beta fixes a minor bug introduced in the previous version.

phammer1

6th April 2005, 18:31

Hello - I am interested in using this excellent application to convert DVD to RM for use on a PDA. The PDA can play RM but not RMVB format video. Is there an option to convert to RM as opposed to RMVB? Thanks

karl_lillevold

6th April 2005, 18:39

Yes, click on filename, hit F2 (rename), or right click, and choose rename. Then change .rmvb to .rm :D

Historically, .rmvb was introduced to separate VBR files from CBR files, but this is no longer needed (for various reasons). I think your PDA can play .rmvb files just fine (after renaming), as long as the bitrate and framesize are reasonably constrained to fit your PDA's limitations. Try it out...

phammer1

6th April 2005, 19:21

Thanks - i actually tried that, and it found the file and "played" it - except I got audio but no video (blank screen). I'll look into the pda specs for playback a bit more - thanks again.

Ishan

16th April 2005, 14:21

Is there any way to choose between cook, AAC and HE-AAC?

vicvega

6th May 2005, 07:16

a_afra, do you think it's possible to port this awesome App to OS X?

I love it, and use it for my PC, but I would like it alot if I could use it on my Mac also.

Even if you're not intrested in porting it over, (and although I don't have all that much programming experience), I would be intrested in attempting to port it...

a_afra

8th May 2005, 22:34

Unfortunately it's not possible to port FilmShrink to OS X, because the GUI was created using Borland C++Builder 6, which is only available for Windows.

Currently I don't have time for coding, because I'm 18 years old and I have to prepare for the high school graduation. I will start developing my next project in August, which will be an open source, cross-platform, very flexible and easily extensible media producer engine similar to RealProducer. The default output format will be MPEG-4 and it will use MPEG4IP, X264, FAAC and other libraries. When it will be done, I will incorporate it into FilmShrink!

Sirber

9th May 2005, 00:19

FilmShrink uses AVISynth, which won't run on mac :)

Backflip

13th July 2005, 10:49

Just loaded up FilmShrink, I like it's cropping window, it's clear to see whether automatic cropping has cropped any picture out or not. This isn't so clear in other programs. Just a question though - is there an option to completely disable the encoding of the audio? I just want the video encoded.

a_afra

13th July 2005, 20:31

You cannot disable the encoding of the audio, but I will add this feature into the next version.

SocketA

22nd September 2005, 20:09

Can FilmShrink do 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen encoding, like AutoRV10 can?
Does it use Real's producer to do the resizing or is it done before (like in a avs script or something)?

a_afra

23rd September 2005, 19:10

Currently FilmShrink does not support 16:9 anamorphic encoding, but I'm working on the next version which will contain this feature.

It does the resizing in the avs script to maximize quality (Lanczos resizing is the best).

karl_lillevold

24th September 2005, 06:51

hmm, for anamorphic encoding there should not be any resizing relative to the source prior to encoding... Producer should be given the playback size as the "resize" size, which should be stretched horizontally, relative to the input (source) size, such that the player will do this stretching on playback.

a_afra

24th September 2005, 11:03

I know that, but for non-anamorphic encoding resizing is necessary prior to encoding and that's were I use Lanczos and not in the case of the future anamorphic encoding feature.

karl_lillevold

24th September 2005, 21:30

OK. That makes perfect sense. Thanks!

XH42

17th December 2005, 02:03

Hi, I love this FilmShrink. Great Program!! Nearly perfect. :p
I have a question about it though, as when I used this propgram to convert a dvd to rmvb, in the PCG/Angle Select screen, it shows 1:38:30 for the length of the movie that I want to convert. but when I went into the 'Video' tab in the "Configuration Screen" it shows 1:38:36 for it's duration. At first it did not really matter to me. But when I import the subtitle into it, I realized that the sub was not sync with the video. For some reason the movie stopped at the the last frame of the movie for 6 seconds longer (a end credit scene), if only I could edit/cut that 6 seconds off before I encode it (wasted 11 hours on my computer :()

So is there anything I could do? Or I could only encode this movie without the subtitle?

ibear

20th December 2005, 16:06

Hello a_afra,

Thx for your works. After several testing it seems that your software didn't support

1.78:1 (16:9 TV)

But I also would like to confirm that doest it support

1.33:1
1.85:1
2.35:1

Please advise. Many thanks.

ibear :devil: :devil: :devil:

fight2win

1st February 2006, 20:48

has filmshrink development ended?

a_afra

6th February 2006, 21:03

Hello everyone!

Currently I'm working on my new project (not multimedia stuff, sorry) so I don't have time to continue the development of FilmShrink. :( But this doesn't necessarily mean the end of FilmShrink, because it's an open source project. :)

I think H.264 represents the right direction. It's not too difficult to modify FilmShrink to use X264, FAAC and an MPEG-4 multiplexer instead of RealProducer, so if somebody is interested in the development of the next generation FilmShrink please contact me and I will try to help as much as I can!

Also, I'm very happy that NicAudio is used in several other projects, because it's based on my audio decoders made for FilmShrink. :D

taipin

21st March 2009, 22:33

Hello!a afra,
i used your "FilmShrink v0.3.3 beta",it's good software,and we hope tou can continue to development it
1.filmshrink can directly convert DVD(video)to rmvb
your's easy to use.
now here is our comments:
1.hope FilmShrink can support vobsub software,when we convert DVD to rmvb that we can add our favorite subtitle(or any words) in it.
2.hope can choose the FPS(both of auto and manual option).
3.resize resolution->we hope it can have Auto and Manual option
PS:resize resolution currently type:manual(geometric ratio),we hope it can additional manual(that can resize the wild and high ungeometric)

have a nice day,
taipin

PS: please dont mind my bad English,thanks!
I from Taiwan

setarip_old

21st March 2009, 23:36

@taipin

Hi!

In light of the fact that this is your first post, I'll just ask you if you are aware that the last post to this thread (before yours) is more than three years old...

taipin

22nd March 2009, 19:05

hi,setarip!
1.yes,as you said,it's my first post,and knew the last post is more than three years old.
2.because i used afra's "filmshrink" software in three months ago,i just want to say "thanks" to a_afra and few recommend,but i dont not know how to contact with him,till connect his website then come to here.
3.his "Filmshrink" is a nice software for me,i want to know if he has "new version",and how or where can i download it?
4.if you know any information,could you kindly let me know?
thank you!