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24th April 2007, 09:51 | #43 | Link | |
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Hi manolito!
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@bionic: no; the spumux_hack component is the same I sent to you as a beta... For whoever is interested in using the authoring component of the plugin (BatchMux.exe) outside DVD2SVCD, please consider that the release 0.8 of this component have a nasty bug (the file composer is broken). This have no impact for DVD2SVCD users, since this feature is not used in the plugin. However, the bugfix release of this component is available here (original thread in the authoring forum): http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=116297 Cheers, SD Last edited by Sir Didymus; 22nd May 2007 at 08:27. Reason: Removed the direct dl link: better to rely just on the authoring thread |
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Error opening file
Having a problem getting BatchMux plugin started....
getting this error... Quote:
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21st May 2007, 12:09 | #47 | Link |
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Sure, I'm at work now... I uninstalled and reinstalled DVD2SVCD and start the disc over again.... will post when I get home.
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Sorry, seems to be working fine now after reinstall everything....
but I noticed the chapter points are not correct for dvd to dvd
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Well, to say the truth I am aware of a small glitch in the DVD2SVCD process affecting the positioning precision of the chapters...
The result is that, in average, the chapter positions can be ensured only within +/- 1.2 seconds (1 GOP). Are you referring to this effect or to something more critical ? ...If this is the case, I always assumed nobody would care about, since the glitch was present before the development of the BatchMux plugin, and the issue was not raised in the forum posts of the last two/three years... It seems the missed inclusion of the chapter points among the encoder parameters is the cause... The problem is present for all x2DVD modes and both for dvd chapters and fixed chapters. However, better to ask to Nick for some confirmation on the matter... Cheers, SD Last edited by Sir Didymus; 22nd May 2007 at 08:56. |
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If I use dvdauthor.exe they are within +/- 1.2 seconds Running new disc now... will post after complete
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22nd May 2007, 11:51 | #51 | Link |
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That's really odd, if confirmed...
Just checked in the code... In case of DVD chapters, the process performed by Mplex_hack for producing the celltimes.txt file is straightforward... It simply looks for the file "dvd2svcd chapters file.ini" in the source folder, copying the chapters points, one to one, from one file to the other... |
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The movie is The Painted Veil R1... I run it on one pc with dvdauthor.exe and one with BatchMux both using HC .21. Both completed but the one done with BatchMux has the chapter points off. I used chapterxtractor and got the chapter points from the rip file from DVD2DVD. I then manually author it with Muxman and that worked fine.... chapter point are correct.
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So, I am interested on three files in your system:
1) The "dvd2svcd chapters file.ini" in your source folder 2) The Celltimes.txt in your working folder, produced by the BatchMux plugin 3) The Celltimes.txt, which is working fine when manually authored, extracted with chapterxtractor Could you check for the differences among the three ? Or post them, or send to me at: sir_didimus (at) libero.it Thanks! SD Last edited by Sir Didymus; 22nd May 2007 at 19:00. |
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Here in PAL land I cannot reproduce the problem. Did some short test encodes using HC 0.21 and CCE 2.70, and in all cases the chapter points were the same.
Could this be a NTSC issue? DVDAuthor gets its chapter information in absolute time values (like 01:55:12) while BatchMux needs frame numbers. So for BatchMux the frame rate has to be considered also. Is there any frame rate conversion involved in the conversion process? Like going from hard telecined to soft telecined or vice versa? Cheers manolito |
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An issue that I had with Muxman was that the frame numbers used as chapter points assume an NTSC framerate of 30 instead of 29.97. Could this be the issue? If the difference drifts slowly over the title then it's possible this is the case.
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This is from Matrix Revolutions R1... I already had it rip As an .ISO on my HD
dvd2svcd chapters file.ini Code:
[CHAPTERS] Chapter0001=0 Chapter0002=5616 Chapter0003=10836 Chapter0004=14833 Chapter0005=21177 Chapter0006=25833 Chapter0007=33853 Chapter0008=43280 Chapter0009=51173 Chapter0010=56893 Chapter0011=61804 Chapter0012=67180 Chapter0013=70524 Chapter0014=74624 Chapter0015=83424 Chapter0016=86740 Chapter0017=89876 Chapter0018=97816 Chapter0019=101372 Chapter0020=107236 Chapter0021=112736 Chapter0022=119588 Chapter0023=123588 Chapter0024=128369 Chapter0025=132120 Chapter0026=139305 Chapter0027=146592 Chapter0028=150852 Chapter0029=155496 Chapter0030=160441 Chapter0031=165544 Chapter0032=169033 Chapter0033=172896 Code:
5616 10836 14833 21177 25833 33853 43280 51173 56893 61804 67180 70524 74624 83424 86740 89876 97816 101372 107236 112736 119588 123588 128369 132120 139305 146592 150852 155496 160441 165544 169033 172896 Code:
0 7020 13545 18541 26471 32291 42316 54100 63966 71116 77255 83975 88155 93280 104280 108425 112345 122270 126715 134045 140920 149485 154485 160461 165150 174131 183240 188565 194370 200551 206930 211291 216120 again the BatchMux ver is off but the manually author Muxman is right on Quote:
but in this case I talking mins off not just a few frames or sec
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I think I figured it out:
DVD2SVCD always calculates the chapter frame numbers based on the encoding frame rate. For a NTSC telecined film this would be 23.976 fps. After the encode Pulldown is applied to reach the required playback rate of 29.97 fps. This means that all DVD2SVCD chapter points will be off. I wrote a small batch file to verify my theory: Code:
:fixparams IF !%1 == !-f GOTO getfolders SHIFT GOTO fixparams :getfolders SET Muxed_Folder=%~dp4 SET commandline=%1 :loop SHIFT IF !%1==! GOTO mplex_hack SET commandline=%commandline% %1 GOTO loop :mplex_hack mplex_hack.exe %commandline% Copy %Muxed_Folder%CellTimes.txt OldChp.txt IF EXIST NewChp.txt DEL NewChp.txt FOR /f %%a IN (OldChp.txt) DO CALL :Write %%a COPY NewChp.txt %Muxed_Folder%CellTimes.txt IF EXIST ???Chp.txt DEL ???Chp.txt EXIT :Write SET /A Chapter=%1 * 29970 / 23976 ECHO %Chapter% >> NewChp.txt If it works then Sir Didymus has some work to do. The chapter points only have to be recalculated if DVD2SVCD applies Pulldown (or if DGIndex decides that Force Film has to be applied). For PAL nothing has to be done, and for NTSC real interlaced video also no recalculation should be necessary. Please let me know if it works... Cheers manolito |
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Sorry, no good... same result
CellTimes.txt Code:
11972 18792 27748 33320 46856 54312 69740 81517 87604 99624 112520 119780 132644 148357 158601 169408 184292 186797 Code:
0 14966 23490 34685 41650 58570 67890 87175 101896 109505 124530 140650 149725 165805 185446 198251 211760 230365 233496
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From the logs of Fishman0919 it is clear your explaination is correct: all chapter point should be multiplied by the factor of 1.25 when DVD2SVCD applies pulldown flags to an NTSC source. The problem is: how to implement the bugfix in a clean way ? I have a couple of NTSC DVD in my collection... Not sure about they are telecined or not, however. I will try to replicate the issue on my PC in the next days... For the moment thanks to Fishman0919 for the bug report and the testing and double thanks to manolito for the support and co-operation in the developement and improvement of the BatchMux plugin... The bug will be fixed ASAP, I am quite confident about... EDIT: Hmmm... Maybe I have a nice idea... I noticed that apart the "dvd2svcd chapters file.ini" file, also the "DVD Maestro Chapters File.chp" is produced by DVD2SVCD. This file (apparently) contains chapters in the standard NDTC format: hh:mm:ss:ff. Using this file instead of the former, since BatchMux.exe is already enabled to accept this format, should solve the issue... Am I right ? Are there any implications in adopting always this second timecode file instead of the classical Celltimes.txt ? Cheers, SD Last edited by Sir Didymus; 23rd May 2007 at 10:10. |
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