Q18: Which version of DVD2AVI should I use?
A: It must be the modified version 1.76 (CLI 1.0.4) with command line support. Download it at dvd2svcd homepage. [better to use bundle only, do not change versions of software. We will put a Voodoo curse on you, your dog, and your goldfish]
Q19: When dvd2svcd is saving the subtitle timecodes it says file not found?
A: You haven't entered any destination directory for subtitles.
Q20: Wah! It doesn't work. Leap through 10,000 miles, read my mind, take over my body and fix it for me because I can't be bothered to read the basic trouble shooting skills guide and the Q&A.
A: Spend a few minutes thinking before asking questions on the board and title your post wisely. If you use exclamation marks or CAPS we will delete your post.
Try basic things like opening the project (d2v) file in DVD2AVI v 1.76 and see if it will preview by pressing F5. Play the AVS file in media player and see if you *see* video (don't worry if it is slow or jerky) or get a red error line in the top of the screen. If media player doesn`t work, re download the software bundle, or at least the huffy codec on the website. The bundle has huffy in it and will install it. This should fix your problem.
Read all semi recent posts before asking a question. Treat us with respect and you will be treated with respect.
Q21: When doing NTSC is force film selected in DVD2AVI? (might be a problem for animes, etc)
A: Most probably only if the movie comes from a film. However, if you select force film in DVD2AVI tab, it will be used, of course.
Q22: Can dvd2svcd do an inverse telecine on telecined (not real deinterlace) video sources?
A: There is a fuller and robust auto mode solution that attemps to deal with these type of video sources via the use of an Inverse Telecine plugin. It will not always be successful, but in general, should give good results. Be aware it *will* slow down the encode significantly (almost by 30-40%).
Q23: Which program does the 48 -> 44.1KHz downsampling?
A: SSRC.dll, under BeSweet command.
Q24: My audio and video are not synced
A: This rarely happens. The most common reason is when a DVD have been ripped with an external ripper (like Smartripper). Always us internal routines when possible. (In the new DVD2SVCD versions, you can select "Rip Only" and convert the ripped vob files later). Another reason could be that a trailer is as the first chapter on the DVD (like Swordfish).
Q25: I want to know if I can get DVD2SVCD to bypass adding borders as I have an unusual need.
A: Easy, just select the 4:3 option, then no borders will be added. Again, do *not* do this on a 16:9 encode unless you have some oddball need and know *exactly* what you are doing and why you are doing it.
Q26: DVD2SVCD stops at the CCE stage/CCE 2.5 doesn't seem to run on my machine.
A: See minimum system requirements above. PII are not supported. Also, older, slower machines seem to be problematic as well as machines with under 256 ram.
Q27: I get this strange Checksum error from CCE 2.5 when it runs...
A:There is a crc patch floating around for cce 2.5. Try google.
Q28: The process stops when DVD2AVI is supposed to run
A: Sometimes DVD2AVI has to be run *once* manually to register the vfapi module. This should not be the case if the software bundle is used but try doing this if you have a problem like this. Unless you changed it, the software bundle will have installed dvd2avi in C:\program files\dvd2svcd\dvd2avi. Run the executable manually once.
Q29: I used special characters like ( ) [ ] % 1 2 3 001 4 5 6 7 8 9 in my output folder name
A: Don't use these. These characters can be source of problems at least for bbmpeg. Due to sheer number of programs utilized in DVD2SVCD bundle it's better to just stick to your ABC's lest you like to gamble with your time.
Q30: My machine has a Via Chipset and seems slow
A: "Home Skillet" - What motherboard do you have? if you can find out that it has a kt133, kt133a, kt266, kt266a, kt333 or the kt400 chipset then you need to download the VIA 4-in-1 drivers ver. 4.37 (latest) from your motherboard manufacturer. I had a problem with my via chipset where all of my drives were not set in DMA mode. When I installed the 4-in-1 my DVD and CDRW drives used DMA modes and everything was much faster.
Q31: How can I make the background of the Permanent Subtitles Transparent?
A: Choose a number between 0-15 in the background blend column. 0=Invisible 15=Solid. 7 would be a good choice for gray transparency
Q32: Why, does DVD2SVCD not follow the size constraints in the bitrate tab? I.E. My movie is under x time. The size constraints says it should be on 2 cds but I get 3
A: Uncheck min avg. and you could try setting min. bitrate to 0.
Q33: What do I do if dvd2svcd freezes when analyzing video (after you load an ifo from a dvd) or if the Authentication fails?
A: Install the appropriate ASPI drivers for your system. Download it from
here
Q34 Removed
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Q35: How do I find title pictures?
A: No longer works automatically since IMDB changed their database workings.
Q36: Could you please explain how dvd2svcd uses the bitrate tab in details?
A: What dvd2svcd do to calculate the avg. bitrate:
1. DVD2SVCD starts CCE and load the avs file and save the project file (ecl) and closes CCE again.
2. DVD2SVCD opens the project file, and it finds the number of frames and the framerate in that project file.
3. Using the frames and the framerate dvd2svcd calculates the number of minutes the movie is.
4. Using the minutes, dvd2svcd goes through each line in the bitrate tab. When it finds the line where the minutes are between X and XX minutes dvd2svcd get's the number of cd's and the cd size it should use.
5. DVD2SVCD then uses minutes, number of cds and the cd size to calculate the highest bitrate to fill the number of cd's to the limit.
6. DVD2SVCD calculates the avg. bitrate, modifies the Project file, runs CCE loads the Project file into CCE and starts encoding.
Example PAL movie:
After loading the Project file dvd2svcd determines that the number of frames are 155547 and a framerate of 25 fps.
Minutes = 155547 / 25 = 6221,88 seconds = Rounded to 104 minutes
Line used in the DEFAULT bitrate tab will be line 4 since the number of minutes is between 100 and 120 minutes. So the number of cds to be used are 2 and the size of the cd's are 800 each.
As you can see from the above I now have all the figures needed to calculate the bitrate to be used to fill 2 cd's of 800 mb.
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The Max. and Min. down below of the bitrate tab are fixed values used as is in CCE. Those values are used by CCE to do the VBR calculation of each frame. Hence using many bits on complex frames and vice versa.
The Max. Avg. and Min. Avg. are boundary values. If the Min. Avg. is checked the calculated bitrate will never go below the entered number. And the calculated bitrate will never go above the Max. Avg. bitrate. That means has the side effect that if you have a movie of eg. 77 minutes it will not fill 2 * 740 completely because the calculated bitrate will be above the Max. Avg. bitrate and you will only get one filled CD and one 3/4 filled (or so).
Q37: Can I use my computer at all during the SVCD creation process?
A:Yes. You can also, in winXP, to "switch users".
Q38: What is a CCE RT of 0.7 or 1.2, etc.?
A:These numbers means "real time". I.e.: if the movie has 100min of time length, and CCE shows "speed: 0.500 RT", this means that each pass will use 100/0.500=200 min from the begin to the end of CCE work. If you are using multipass, CCE will use (1+number_of_passes) times 200 to end its work. To increase the speed, you can try 1passVBR with Qfactor=1 plus temporalsmooter (TS)turned on. You can use CBR with TS also.
A real example: 83min movie with CCE RT of 1.62 (AMD 1600+) video took 4hrs 16mins video encoding portion doing 4 pass vbr. 83min / 1.62 RT = 51.2 mins
51.2 x 5 (4 pass + .vaf) = 256min (4 hrs 16mins)
Q39: Can I overburn on 90 min CD-R discs?
A:http://www.disc4you.com/news/99min.html
http://www.vcdhelp.com/cdrewriterscomparison.htm
Just put in 900 in the bitrate tab for 90min cd if your cd-burner supports it.
Q40: Where can I see what is being developed in the next version/build?
A:Here:
http://212.88.77.140/Readme.txt
Q41: HOWTO combine/encode 2 disc DVD set as one movie. 1.08.1 or above only. See Note
IMPORTANT Note!: There is the possibility of A/V sync issues due to a bug in in DVD2AVI. Adding extras or doing seperate episodes are most likely to have this issue, but regular movies can have this problem as well. If you are having A/V sync problems check the chapters of the DVD and make sure there are no chapters that do not have any length to them. If so and they are the first or last chapters re-rip the DVD without these chapters. If this does not fix the problem or this does not apply to your DVD then the only way to encode this will be to treat each side as a different DVD.
A:1. Start DVD2SVCD as normal on the first side/disc by selecting the normal IFO file.
2. Make sure ripping is checked
3. Select Rip only on the GO button drop down and rip each side\disc to serperate directories.
4. Rename the second set of VOB files so that their file names are the same as the first set of vobs, but numbered sequentially one number higher then the first set of VOB's...(EX. VTS_01_03.VOB(highest first set), VTS_01_04.VOB(new lowest second set)
5. Move the second set of VOB files to where the first set is and you can now delete the second directory.
6. Start DVD2SVCD and uncheck ripping.
7. Select the IFO file off the HD from the first directory and continue as normal.
Alternate method
1. Get DVDDecryptor from Doom9.org
2. Rip disc one into a temp1 directory.
3. Rip disc 2 into temp2 directory
4. Find the highest number VOB file in temp1 (ex.. VTS_01_6.VOB)
5. Rename all VOB files in temp2 1 number higher then highest in temp1. If your last Vob in temp 1 is named VTS_01_4.vob make sure the first vob from temp 2 is renamed to VTS_01_5.vob and the rest up one number from that.
6. Move all VOB's from temp2 into temp1.
7. erase temp2.
The following is to try and avoid a potential out of sync issue with SmartRipper
8. Start DVD2SVCD and make sure DVD ripping is checked.
9. Select IFO file from temp1
10. Make sure output directory is NOT temp1
11. Procede as normal remembering time listed is NOT correct, but this will not make a difference to DVD2SVCD.
12. After DVD2SVCD has finished ripping you may delete temp1 directory.
DVD Chapters will not work on the video from the second side/disc using this method. To avoid not having chapters use fixed chapters instead.
Q42: I'm trying to use subtitles, but I cannot see any buttons in the subtitles window pop-up. Why?
A: some buttons are not displayed if you have "Large Font" instead of "Small Font" or "normal font". Go to
'Control Panel'/'Display Properties'/'Parameters'/'Advanced'/'General'/'Font Size' to fix it.
Q43: I sometime notice a Matrix tab in DVD2SVCD 1.0.6 B2 and higher. Sometimes it is not there. What gives?
A: DVD2SVCD 1.0.6 B2 and higher automatically sense the version of CCE selected in the file path in the CCE tab. If D2S determines that CCE 2.62 or CCE 2.64 (not recommended)is selected it will add the matrix tab for your convenience (the label to the left of path line will continue to say "Cinema Craft Encoder 2.5"). If it determines CCE 2.5 is selected the matrix tab will not be present.
Note: To use version CCE 2.62 or CCE 2.64 of CCE you must check the "safe mode VFAPI" checkbox in the CCE tab.
Q44: So, does Q43 mean I can't use a selectable matrix if I am using CCE 2.50 SP?
A: No. Actualy, you can. To select a matrix to be used by CCE 2.50SP you must use a version of the TSUNAMI patch utility (see Google) to patch the matrix into CCE 2.50SP. While D2S will not outwardly give any indication of this matrix patch, rest assured it will be used for the encoding and multiplexing phase of the D2S process.