AVStoDVD Support Thread - Page 15

MrC · 7th July 2008, 15:43

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Originally Posted by rendez2k

Sorry, another issue/question. I've added subtitles to my movie - and selected to hard-code them. However, when I test playback in PowerDVD, I end up with two subtitles - 1 hard-coded and 1 which is user selectable (which I can turn off) over the top (slightly out of time to the other). Any ideas?

Well, it is not really an issue... It is a bug. If hard-encoded is selected, no standard subs should appear. Will fix it.

What do you mean by "slightly out of time to the other"?

Bye

rendez2k · 7th July 2008, 15:50

Hi MrC - for some reason it appeared that the hard coded subtitles appeared at a slightly different time to the normal subtitles. Not sure which was correct through.

Also, if you have any alpha versions, there always good to play with and provide feedback for!

rendez2k · 7th July 2008, 16:05

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Originally Posted by MrC

Yes you can. By toggling off "Auto Video Setup" in Edit Title and selecting video profile you prefer.
AVStoDVD selects the best profile looking at the bitrate. In 'Settings'/'Video' you can customize the (3) bitrate levels for the (3) video profile.

For more explanations, see the Help section (press F1) or read this post in AVStoDVD forum @Sourceforge

While I understand this a little better now, a few things spring to mind. Firstly, I'm not a fan of QuEnc due to some odd issues and encodes in the past. I now only use HCEnc for all my encodes (it also works quickly on my quad core) so can QuEnc be disabled? Also, maybe the predicted bitrate and encoder/method could be displayed on the main screen without me having to jump into the edit tile menu?

fedeeee · 7th July 2008, 22:00

Hi, I think I've found a little bug, at least on my pc...
After selecting source video file, and press the button "Preview file output", if I select "Goto frame..." and then press "Cancel", the program crashes with a "Run-time error 13: type mismatch".
Can anyone reproduce it?
Bye

rendez2k · 7th July 2008, 22:03

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Originally Posted by fedeeee

Hi, I think I've found a little bug, at least on my pc...
After selecting source video file, and press the button "Preview file output", if I select "Goto frame..." and then press "Cancel", the program crashes with a "Run-time error 13: type mismatch".
Can anyone reproduce it?
Bye

Yup, same here. Its a bug!

wg · 7th July 2008, 23:57

Tried to run AVStoDVD on Ubuntu Hardy using wine, with little success, it won't open. I have installed all the requirements, still no luck. Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

MrC · 10th July 2008, 15:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by fedeeee

Hi, I think I've found a little bug, at least on my pc...
After selecting source video file, and press the button "Preview file output", if I select "Goto frame..." and then press "Cancel", the program crashes with a "Run-time error 13: type mismatch".
Can anyone reproduce it?
Bye

It is a bug. Thanks for the feedback. Will be fixed in next release.

Bye

MrC · 10th July 2008, 15:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by rendez2k

While I understand this a little better now, a few things spring to mind. Firstly, I'm not a fan of QuEnc due to some odd issues and encodes in the past. I now only use HCEnc for all my encodes (it also works quickly on my quad core) so can QuEnc be disabled? Also, maybe the predicted bitrate and encoder/method could be displayed on the main screen without me having to jump into the edit tile menu?

It can be disabled. Follow these steps:
- Go to 'Settings'/'Encoding'
- Select 'QuEnc CBR 1-pass'
- Put 'Lower bitrate level' to 9000

Done! Simple, isn't it?

You can also customize bitrate levels for 'HCenc OPV 1-pass' and 'HCenc VBR 2-pass'.

Ah, do not forget to check 'Save current settings as default' before exiting from Settings window.

Bye

MrC · 10th July 2008, 15:44

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Originally Posted by wg

Tried to run AVStoDVD on Ubuntu Hardy using wine, with little success, it won't open. I have installed all the requirements, still no luck. Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks for feedback about Ubuntu compliance. But I cannot reproduce it, since I do not have Linux installed, and I do not mention Linux as OS supported by AVStoDVD, which is a Win32 program developped with good old VB6 (launched in 1996...).

Mabye does Wine lack VB6 runtime libraries?

Bye

MrC · 10th July 2008, 15:51

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Originally Posted by rendez2k

Hi MrC - for some reason it appeared that the hard coded subtitles appeared at a slightly different time to the normal subtitles. Not sure which was correct through.

I have simulated what you pointed out, and yes, the out of phase is present, but really unnoticeable (much less than 1 second). Btw, with bug fixing, that issue will disappear as well.

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Originally Posted by rendez2k

Also, if you have any alpha versions, there always good to play with and provide feedback for!

Will publish it within one week. Now I am on vacation and I am waiting for some feedbacks from Sir Dydimus which is testing BatchMux (really a great wrapper) implementation/usage to create DVD Menus with AVStoDVD.

Bye

rendez2k · 10th July 2008, 20:21

Brilliant news! Many thanks Mr C! One other question, is it possible to put HCEnc into 'good' profile rather than 'best'?

MrC · 14th July 2008, 09:13

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Originally Posted by rendez2k

One other question, is it possible to put HCEnc into 'good' profile rather than 'best'?

What do you exactly mean?

Bye

rendez2k · 14th July 2008, 09:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrC

What do you exactly mean?

Bye

HCEnc has 3 encoding profiles. It currently appears to be set to 'best' (which takes the longest time to encode). Is it just a simple job of changing hc.ini?

MrC · 14th July 2008, 14:59

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Originally Posted by rendez2k

HCEnc has 3 encoding profiles. It currently appears to be set to 'best' (which takes the longest time to encode). Is it just a simple job of changing hc.ini?

Ok, got it. HCenc accepts "FAST", "NORMAL" and "BEST" profile. In AVStoDVD, since QuEnc is adopted for *easy* encoding, I have hard-coded "BEST" profile for HCenc, which is adopted for *difficult* encoding.

I'm not plannig to put an option to customize HCenc profile, at least it is not on top of my ToDo list.

And I fear that grabbing HCenc ini file (created by AVStoDVD and stored in Temp folder) is not very easy because there is no time span between ini creation and usage...

Let me know if I have answered to your question.

Bye

rendez2k · 14th July 2008, 16:25

I'd normally only use best, but if I want to do a fast test or something I'm not really bothered about, I'd have liked the option to change the profile.

It appears I need to edit hc.ini for another reason (as discussed in the HC forum here for a problem I've been having)

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For the first time, I noticed an error with HCEnc yesterday, ERROR, source mismatch in pass 2 starting at frame: 0

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It's probably your Direct Show decoder that does not support frame accurate seeking as the error message means that the first frame in the first pass is different form the first frame in the second pass.

You could try to fix it by enabling the reload Avisynth switch in HCEnc. It was made for these kinds of errors.

Which means I need to add *AVSRELOAD to hc.ini

Sir Didymus · 15th July 2008, 15:38

For people interested in adding custom initialisations to the encodes based on HCenc, Darksoul71 has just released a very interesting wrapper for HCenc. See here the details:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=139277

However I did not perform any test on my own (at least up to this moment...) of AVStoDVD + HCWrap...

Cheers,
SD

rendez2k · 15th July 2008, 16:03

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Originally Posted by Sir Didymus

For people interested in adding custom initialisations to the encodes based on HCenc, Darksoul71 has just released a very interesting wrapper for HCenc. See here the details:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=139277

However I did not perform any test on my own (at least up to this moment...) of AVStoDVD + HCWrap...

Cheers,
SD

Thanks - might do the trick. I'll give it a test when I get home.

MrC · 15th July 2008, 16:04

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Originally Posted by rendez2k

It appears I need to edit hc.ini for another reason (as discussed in the HC forum here for a problem I've been having)

Which means I need to add *AVSRELOAD to hc.ini

*AVSRELOAD is already present by default in HC ini files generated by AVStoDVD.

Bye

MrC · 15th July 2008, 16:13

Go to AVStoDVD homepage.

You will find a shy (risky?) try to grow up.

Bye

rendez2k · 15th July 2008, 16:16

2.10! May I ask whats new :-)

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rendez2k Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: UK Posts: 625	Hi MrC - for some reason it appeared that the hard coded subtitles appeared at a slightly different time to the normal subtitles. Not sure which was correct through. Also, if you have any alpha versions, there always good to play with and provide feedback for!

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fedeeee Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1	Hi, I think I've found a little bug, at least on my pc... After selecting source video file, and press the button "Preview file output", if I select "Goto frame..." and then press "Cancel", the program crashes with a "Run-time error 13: type mismatch". Can anyone reproduce it? Bye

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wg Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 78	Tried to run AVStoDVD on Ubuntu Hardy using wine, with little success, it won't open. I have installed all the requirements, still no luck. Any advice much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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rendez2k Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: UK Posts: 625	Brilliant news! Many thanks Mr C! One other question, is it possible to put HCEnc into 'good' profile rather than 'best'?

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rendez2k Registered User Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: UK Posts: 625	2.10! May I ask whats new :-)