VirtualDub 1.4.13 with MPEG-2 and AC-3 support (by fccHandler)

DeXT · 12th January 2003, 21:15

Hi there. Recently fccHandler published a patch for VirtualDub which enables it to directly read MPEG-2 streams, as well as AC-3 streams, using its built-in MPEG parser.

I've compiled it and found it pretty nice, now it's possible to directly load a VOB into VirtualDub, play it, and convert or frameserve it to another application, without the need to use an external reader such as AviSynth, DVD2AVI, VFAPI etc, and best of all, with built-in audio, so you don't need to extract and convert it separately.

Althought VirtualDubMod already features VOB support, it uses the DVD2AVI engine and has no direct audio support (it's saved on a separate file). So I found this patch really interesting.

Surely it could be optimized further, and may contain bugs, but I think it's definitely a step in the right direction. I hope the VirtualDubMod team consider adopting this great patch, at least as an alternative to the internal DVD2AVI reader.

If you want to give it a try, check my homepage below.

http://es.geocities.com/dextstuff/

DeXT

fccHandler · 13th January 2003, 07:56

Cool. Thanks for hosting some binaries.

Zhnujm · 13th January 2003, 19:12

finally it has happend. cool.

many thanks.

bond · 13th January 2003, 21:45

hope this will find its way into vdmod!!!

krmathis · 14th January 2003, 18:40

I think the link is down.
I don`t speak Spanish so I do not understand the messages.

Any other link?

Thank you

JuanC · 14th January 2003, 19:12

Quote:

Originally posted by solaris
Any other link?

Try These links (The ones on DeXT page):
VirtualDub 1.4.13 with MPEG2 & AC3
Sources

krmathis · 14th January 2003, 19:43

Quote:

Originally posted by JuanC
Try These links (The ones on DeXT page):
VirtualDub 1.4.13 with MPEG2 & AC3
Sources

Thanks a lot!
I got it and am about to test it out.

bluengine · 18th January 2003, 02:03

it's still alpha code, not for end user noobs call bluengine,

bluengine fades it to distance while the uber coders, and developers
discuse and fix the code

...

orulz · 18th January 2003, 02:04

VirtualDub would become invincible as a tool if it allowed filters to do IVTC, through decimation of frames and changing the framerate. And input / output plugins would be nice (though hardcoding into the source is fine, too).

Hey, wait a minute, this is starting to sound like how VirtualDub 2.0 was going to be. I haven't seen any official announcements about it's demise, anyone know about the status? Did I perhaps miss something?

gldblade · 18th January 2003, 03:49

Sorry, I don't have anything to test this on at the moment:
If I were to open the first vob file out of multiple vobs, would it automatically open all of them?

farao · 18th January 2003, 05:27

gldblade,, you can use IFO Mode in DVD Decrypter "File Splitting" is None so you will have one vob file.. on your ntfs partition.
I am trying this new virtualdub-patch with Xvid and Ogg acm..
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012897/

neuron2 · 18th January 2003, 05:32

It doesn't honor the RFF/TFF flags. Any plans for that?

gantz · 18th January 2003, 05:41

Quote:

Originally posted by gldblade
Sorry, I don't have anything to test this on at the moment:
If I were to open the first vob file out of multiple vobs, would it automatically open all of them?

It does not. I've only played with it for five minutes, but I can't find a way to append all the necessary vobs. Also, the audio in my test renders is slightly out of sync and there's no normalization. MPEG-2 decoding looks good though. Great to see the vob feature though. Thanks to all involved with this tweak.

gantz

farao · 18th January 2003, 06:01

gldblade,, you can use IFO Mode in DVD Decrypter "File Splitting" is None so you will have one vob file.. on your ntfs partition.
I am trying this new virtualdub-patch with Xvid and Ogg acm..
http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012897/

fccHandler · 18th January 2003, 06:02

Quote:

Originally posted by neuron2
It doesn't honor the RFF/TFF flags. Any plans for that?

Well, it was part of my original plan (the RFF/TFF flags are indeed stored for every frame), but it grew too complex for me at the time and I never finished that aspect of it.

I have a list of things I'd like to fix, including RFF/TFF and proper MPEG-2 chroma upsampling, but I haven't really had time to work on it. The code is freely available though, if anyone else wants to mess around with it:

http://home.attbi.com/~blade66/Mpeg.cpp
http://home.attbi.com/~blade66/mpeg_decode.cpp

(Note that AC3 support is disabled in those sources.)

fccHandler · 18th January 2003, 06:18

Quote:

Originally posted by gldblade
If I were to open the first vob file out of multiple vobs, would it automatically open all of them?

Quote:

Originally posted by gantz
It does not.

Honestly, it was not designed for ripping DVDs. But as a workaround you could "copy /b" the VOBs to your hard drive as one huge file (you may need NTFS for this).

Quote:

Originally posted by gantz
Thanks to all involved with this tweak.

You mean me, right?

zyrill · 18th January 2003, 11:40

which format is being used for reading the vobs? rgb or what? because i ask myself if it may still be better to use avisynth after all because of YUY2 support...

[Toff] · 18th January 2003, 18:23

I have decoding problem (interlacing and block) with a PAL DVD.
Here is a VOB sample (~1Mo) :
http://christophe.paris.free.fr/temp/bd_test.zip

fccHandler · 18th January 2003, 18:50

Quote:

Originally posted by zyrill
which format is being used for reading the vobs? rgb or what? because i ask myself if it may still be better to use avisynth after all because of YUY2 support...

YUY2 and UYVY are supported for "fast recompress" only.

Quote:

Originally posted by [Toff]
I have decoding problem (interlacing and block) with a PAL DVD.

Thanks, I'll definitely look into it.

gldblade · 18th January 2003, 20:03

Quote:

so you will have one vob file.. on your ntfs partition.

If only I had an NTFS partition.

12th January 2003, 21:15	#1 \| Link
DeXT Registered User Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Spain Posts: 307	VirtualDub 1.4.13 with MPEG-2 and AC-3 support (by fccHandler) Hi there. Recently fccHandler published a patch for VirtualDub which enables it to directly read MPEG-2 streams, as well as AC-3 streams, using its built-in MPEG parser. I've compiled it and found it pretty nice, now it's possible to directly load a VOB into VirtualDub, play it, and convert or frameserve it to another application, without the need to use an external reader such as AviSynth, DVD2AVI, VFAPI etc, and best of all, with built-in audio, so you don't need to extract and convert it separately. Althought VirtualDubMod already features VOB support, it uses the DVD2AVI engine and has no direct audio support (it's saved on a separate file). So I found this patch really interesting. Surely it could be optimized further, and may contain bugs, but I think it's definitely a step in the right direction. I hope the VirtualDubMod team consider adopting this great patch, at least as an alternative to the internal DVD2AVI reader. If you want to give it a try, check my homepage below. http://es.geocities.com/dextstuff/ DeXT

13th January 2003, 07:56	#2 \| Link
fccHandler Registered Jedi Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Georgia, U.S.A. Posts: 734	Cool. Thanks for hosting some binaries. __________________ May the FOURCC be with you...

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krmathis Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 22	I think the link is down. I don`t speak Spanish so I do not understand the messages. Any other link? Thank you Last edited by krmathis; 14th January 2003 at 19:40.

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bluengine Registered User Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: australia Posts: 1	oh I get it it's still alpha code, not for end user noobs call bluengine, bluengine fades it to distance while the uber coders, and developers discuse and fix the code ... __________________ yeah Last edited by bluengine; 18th January 2003 at 08:09.

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orulz Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 8	VirtualDub + True IVTC VirtualDub would become invincible as a tool if it allowed filters to do IVTC, through decimation of frames and changing the framerate. And input / output plugins would be nice (though hardcoding into the source is fine, too). Hey, wait a minute, this is starting to sound like how VirtualDub 2.0 was going to be. I haven't seen any official announcements about it's demise, anyone know about the status? Did I perhaps miss something?

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Zhnujm Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 983	finally it has happend. cool. many thanks.

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bond Moderator Join Date: Nov 2001 Posts: 9,780	hope this will find its way into vdmod!!!

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gldblade XviD Junkie Join Date: Oct 2001 Posts: 313	Sorry, I don't have anything to test this on at the moment: If I were to open the first vob file out of multiple vobs, would it automatically open all of them?

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farao Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2	gldblade,, you can use IFO Mode in DVD Decrypter "File Splitting" is None so you will have one vob file.. on your ntfs partition. I am trying this new virtualdub-patch with Xvid and Ogg acm.. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012897/

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neuron2 _ Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 16,635	It doesn't honor the RFF/TFF flags. Any plans for that?

18th January 2003, 06:01	#14 \| Link
farao Registered User Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 2	gldblade,, you can use IFO Mode in DVD Decrypter "File Splitting" is None so you will have one vob file.. on your ntfs partition. I am trying this new virtualdub-patch with Xvid and Ogg acm.. http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA012897/

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zyrill Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 72	which format is being used for reading the vobs? rgb or what? because i ask myself if it may still be better to use avisynth after all because of YUY2 support...

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[Toff] Registered User Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: FRANCE Posts: 320	I have decoding problem (interlacing and block) with a PAL DVD. Here is a VOB sample (~1Mo) : http://christophe.paris.free.fr/temp/bd_test.zip __________________ Regards [Toff]

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