Adjusting a file in Vdubmod for D2S

[Burning Fury]

I have this problem.I have 2 avi files.Both files contain an AC3 audio format,both this files belong to the same movie,which means,main movie was split into 2.I joined them using the guide in this site.It seems to work fine when i play the "whole" file in a player.But when i encode it into D2S only half of the movie gets encoded!!!.I went and review the log on D2S and found out that some frames were missing,so i went back to Vdubmod to correct them using my original avi files but i can't seem to be able to preview nor decode the movie properly.
Why is that?,anyways,here is the Vdubmod log...and the Mplex log.
Please help me out. Thanks.

Here's the Vdubmod log:

[i] Starting up: VirtualDubMod build 2366/release

AVI: Opening file "D:\Apple\Movie1.avi.avi"

[!] Couldn't locate decompressor for format 'XVID' (unknown).
VirtualDub requires a Video for Windows (VFW) compatible codec to
decompress video. DirectShow codecs, such as those used by Windows Media
Player, are not suitable. Only 'Direct stream copy' is available for this
video.

Beginning preview operation.

[E] Error: VideoSourceAVI: uncompressed frame 0 is short (expected 284160
bytes, got 2164)

Ending operation.


Here's the Mplex log...

INFO: [???] mplex version 2.0.0 (2.2.3 $Date: 2004/01/13 20:45:26 $)
INFO: [???] File D:\Movie\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv looks like an MPEG Video stream.
INFO: [???] File D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.ac3 looks like an AC3 Audio stream.
INFO: [???] Video stream 0: profile 8 selected - ignoring non-standard options!
INFO: [???] Found 1 audio streams and 1 video streams
INFO: [???] Selecting dvdauthor DVD output profile
INFO: [???] Multiplexing video program stream!
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: Video stream e0 (D:\Movie\Encoded_Video_TMPGEnc_NTSC.mpv)
INFO: [???] VIDEO STREAM: e0
INFO: [???] Frame width : 720
INFO: [???] Frame height : 480
INFO: [???] Aspect ratio : 16:9 display
INFO: [???] Picture rate : 29.970 frames/sec
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 8000000 bits/sec
INFO: [???] Vbv buffer size : 229376 bytes
INFO: [???] CSPF : 0
INFO: [???] Scanning for header info: AC3 Audio stream 00 (D:\Movie\Encoded_audio_1.ac3)
INFO: [???] AC3 frame size = 1536

INFO: [???] AC3 AUDIO STREAM:
INFO: [???] Bit rate : 49152 bytes/sec (384 kbit/sec)
INFO: [???] Frequency : 48000 Hz
INFO: [???] SYSTEMS/PROGRAM stream:
INFO: [???] rough-guess multiplexed stream data rate : 8566496
INFO: [???] target data-rate specified : 10080000
INFO: [???] Setting specified specified data rate: 10080000
INFO: [???] Run-in Sectors = 89 Video delay = 13019 Audio delay = 0
INFO: [???] New sequence commences...
INFO: [???] Video e0: buf= 237568 frame=000000 sector=00000000
INFO: [???] Audio bd: buf= 16384 frame=000000 sector=00000000
**ERROR: [???] Can't find next AC3 frame: @ 141325824 we have 0000 - broken bit-stream?

Please,review it and tell me what went wrong...

[Nick]

What went wrong is that VDubMod does not correctly join AC3 streams and it causes the process to fail at the join.

There is a little commandline utility called AC3fix. Run it on the file "Encoded_audio_1.ac3" in your project folder. Call the output file something like "Encoded_audio_1_fixed.ac3"

Now rename the original audio file to something else and rename the fixed file back to "Encoded_audio_1.ac3"

The original file created by D2S will then have been replaced by the output of AC3fix. You can now crash-recover from the Muxing and Cutting stage.

Google should find AC3fix. The syntax is very simple but if you need walking through it, get back to us.

HTH
Nick

[Burning Fury]

Thanks a lot Nick,like always,you are very prompt to help.
I did some research tho,but i remembered that D2S can also change the audio in a file,so i did that instead.The AC3 audio was changed by the default D2S one and it worked just fine,but i do have the AC3fix already tho.
Now i know it is totally out of the topic but,i encoded the movie with selectable subs and the subs came out rather "transparent",you can see them but they seem to "blend" with the movie and they do not stand out on their own.I had the anomorphic feature tho so the movie can be viewed on screen so the subs are blended with the movie.
I used the color palette of D2S and i used:
Transparent=Black =0
Font=Yellow =1
Outline=Black =2
Antialias=Black. =3

I wanted the subs to be yellow so when they display on screen they look nice,but they came out very transparent...could you tell me of a perfect setting for both White and Yellow subs please?
A setting that is not too transparent but not too "standish" so to speak...thanks (^-^)/