tv series (episodic DVD) and dvd-rb pro 0.93.2

[jarthel]

I have an anime TV series in DVD. It has 4 episodes comprised of VTS1, 2, 8 and 9.

vts1 size = 1.21Gb
vts2 size = 1.20Gb
vts8 size = 1.25Gb
vts9 size = 1.33Gb

When I opened the .inf in rb-opt, it seems bitrate for VTS1 is 8500 and VTS2, 8 and 9 have been assigned bitrates of around 1500.

I have "steal from extra" disabled and those "half-D1" options are unticked.

Is there a way to fix this? thanks

update: I just run the process of encoding. VTS2 is indeed encoded at a much lower bitrate. :|

[jptheripper]

no fixing need. steal space from extras assumes 1 movie and all the rest extras. It doesnt work on episodic disks (this is in the stickies at the top). IT seems obvious its on

Turn it off.

[borgraf]

You say you have them disabled, but i've never heard of that effect without some form of "steal space from extras" enabled. You sure you didn't untick any of those settings after the prepare phase? Make sure they're all disabled, check your rebuilder.ini for HalfExtras=0 and ReduceOpt=0, then run prepare again and see if it's the same as before.

OT: nice save jp ;)

[jarthel]

copy and paste of appropriate parts of the rebuilder.ini
ReduceOpt=0
AVSFilter14=
AVSFilter15=
Skin=Rockas Original
HalfExtras=0

I haven't changed any option since "prepare" was ran last time.

[jarthel]

I just reran "prepare" twice with the above-stated options and rb-opt still says VTS1 has 8500 and the rest of the episodes has 1500. :|

[jarthel]

I just tried manually changing the bitrate using rb-opt but for VTS2, 8 and 9, the max bitrate I can use is somewhere around 2200 (bitrate slider is on the max position to the right).

[jarthel]

I just ran "prepare" on a different DVD but has 2 episodes (instead of 4 like the DVD above) and same results. :| VTS2 has 1500 bitrate and VTS3 has 7200 bitrate.

[jptheripper]

thanx;)

okay this is odd.

[borgraf]

odd indeed. I ran an "episodic DVD" just the other day with 0.93.2 and it got the bitrates right.

I re-read the first post and realized if it was a "steal space" issue then titleset 9 would have had the highest bitrate since it's the largest, not titleset 1. I'm out of ideas for the moment, but if I got one of those strange errors I would in the end try a clean install with Rockas installer to see if that fixes it.

[feedback]

I agree. Uninstall... then reinstall using, as borgraf said, the Rockas Installer.
Let us know if you were sucessful.

BTW, you are not using the latest 2.5.6 v.xxxx
of AviSynth are you? I don't think it works correctly, at this time, with DVD-RB.
Regards,:)