FAVC - v1.07 (Auto Menu Generation) (19/06/08)

[ryc0203]

Not possible.
See picture.

first of all sorry for my English, since I speak Spanish.

I had the same problem apparently happens for the regional configuration, in order that FAVC 0.9 works well the divider of thousands must be "," and the decimal one "."

Or simpler in regional configuration of windows selects English USA.

It work for my

Pd. FAVC is great, thanks Mr_Odwin

:thanks:

[Jiao]

Hi, FAVC is great! You get the simplicity of ConvertXToDVD and much better quality. I love free tools! Works perfectly. The only thing that's missing for it to really be perfect is subtitles support. Is there an ETA on that? :P Since I burn many Asian videos so I need to add subtitles.

[Mr_Odwin]

Not possible.
See picture.

What is the text in the avs file that is generated?


Hi, FAVC is great! You get the simplicity of ConvertXToDVD and much better quality. I love free tools! Works perfectly. The only thing that's missing for it to really be perfect is subtitles support. Is there an ETA on that? :P Since I burn many Asian videos so I need to add subtitles.

Subtitles are probably going to be in the next release. For single video dvds you could use the advanced scripting options - use the Textsub("subtitle file here") avisynth line in the "preceding the resize operation" box. You'll need to put the textsub dll (download from http://avisynth.org/warpenterprises/) in your avisynth plugin folder too (typically C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins).

[magicclue]

What is the text in the avs file that is generated?

LoadPlugin("D:\Downloads\FAVC\Avisynth Plugins\Decomb.dll")
LoadPlugin("D:\Downloads\FAVC\Avisynth Plugins\QTSource.dll")
Import("D:\Downloads\FAVC\Avisynth Plugins\FAVCResize.avsi")
Import("D:\Downloads\FAVC\Avisynth Plugins\FAVCStereo.avsi")

Try {
AVISource("D:\Filme\fertig\film.avi").EnsureVBRMP3Sync()
FAVCStereo(Last,Last)
}
Catch(Err_Msg) {
DirectShowSource("D:\Filme\fertig\film.avi",FPS=23.976,ConvertFPS=True).EnsureVBRMP3Sync()
FAVCStereoDSS(Last,Last)
}
ConvertToYV12()

ChangeFPS(24000,1001)

FAVCResize(Last,"PAL",0,1773000)

[Mr_Odwin]

It seems to be a regional problem that I'm working on. If you change the FAVCResize line to have parameters (Last,"PAL",0,1773) then it may work.
A cleaner but slightly more annoying method is to change your region to English (UK or USA) in your control panel.

[ryc0203]

It seems to be a regional problem that I'm working on. If you change the FAVCResize line to have parameters (Last,"PAL",0,1773) then it may work.
A cleaner but slightly more annoying method is to change your region to English (UK or USA) in your control panel.

Yes,
change region to English work fine, and only while FAVC works with the script, when it begins to codify the video you can change region to your country
:sly:

[eno]

I tried using FAVC back in December 2006. As I remember, the program was functioning like I had a two core cpu (two screens were shown). As my laptop is single core, I wasn't able to get FAVC to work properly. I'd like to give the new version a try if I can make it work as a single core cpu. Any suggestions. Thanks!

[Jiao]

Subtitles are probably going to be in the next release. For single video dvds you could use the advanced scripting options - use the Textsub("subtitle file here") avisynth line in the "preceding the resize operation" box. You'll need to put the textsub dll (download from http://avisynth.org/warpenterprises/) in your avisynth plugin folder too (typically C:\Program Files\AviSynth 2.5\plugins).

Great that's very useful! I was also wondering how close are you to finishing the next release? I'd rather FAVC be released with small upgrades, but often than take longer adding large stuff. Can't wait!

[Dr.Khron]

Mr_Odwin-

Thank you for your excellent program.

Last week, I mentioned that FAVC was unable to properly process the audio when converting some PAL AVI files to NTSC DVD (the video encoding and pulldown seem to work perfectly). While FAVC is a much better program then AVI2DVD, the latter was able to correctly process the audio. (since I don't like how AVI2DVD muxes and authors, I used it to process the audio, and then I encoded the video separatley, and used batch MuxMan to build the VOBs)

Rather then just complain about a free program, I'd like to help. Here are the BeSweet cmd lines that AVI2DVD uses. If you can replicate the settings in the AVS file that FAVC feeds into Aften, then FAVC should be able to properly convert PAL files like the ones I have.

First it extracts the audio file.

Then it fixes it with BeSplit:

BeSplit.exe
-core( -input "...\EXTRACTED_AUDIO.MP3"
-prefix "...\Fixed_Audio"
-type mp3
-fix
-logfile "...\BeSplit.txt )


Then it transcodes it with BeSweet:

BeSweet.exe
-core( -input "...\Fixed_Audio01.mp3"
-output "...\AudioStream 1 MP3 2CH.ac3"
-logfile "...\BeSweet_AudioStream 1 MP3 2CH.ac3.txt" )
-ac3enc( -b 192 )
-boost( /b =1 /1=0.95 )
-ota( -r 25000 23976 )

I'm pretty sure that the resampling from 25 fps to 23.976 is the important part.

[Mr_Odwin]

It seems like you have found a bug Dr.Khron. The error is in the video encoding. I recently changed a lot of the internal code and this was something that obviously got passed me.

I'm releasing a bugfix and am updating the links in the first post. Please try this new release.

I tried using FAVC back in December 2006. As I remember, the program was functioning like I had a two core cpu (two screens were shown). As my laptop is single core, I wasn't able to get FAVC to work properly. I'd like to give the new version a try if I can make it work as a single core cpu. Any suggestions. Thanks!

FAVC should work just fine on a single core machine. I'm not sure what you mean by "wasn't able to get FAVC to work properly". Make sure you have installed AviSynth, the .NET Framework (Version 2) and any required codecs.

Great that's very useful! I was also wondering how close are you to finishing the next release? I'd rather FAVC be released with small upgrades, but often than take longer adding large stuff. Can't wait!

I work on this in my spare time and sometimes I have more than other times. So, unfortunately, predicting the time of a release is tricky.

[Jiao]

Small bug report.

I think I found the two core error. I'm also on a laptop, so I don't know if that has anything to do with it, but when you choose Speed for the HC encoder, it sets the cores to 2. All other settings (quality, balance) sets it correctly to 1.

And for QuEnc, it sets the cores to 2 for balance and speed and it's editable (I don't know if you intended for it to be editable because for HCEnc Quality and Balance, it isn't)

umm. AMD Turion x64, 1.8ghz, HP Pavillion Laptop, if you need to know.

[Mr_Odwin]

The thing with the cores is that it just runs two or more simultaneous instances of the video encoder. You don't actually need a dual core for this to work. The speed, balance, quality presets are the same on any computer regardless of the actual number of cores. I'm not sure if a single core machine would gain any benefit from running two instances of the video encoder, I gain a little with my Hyper-Threaded P4.

The number of cores for HC when 2-pass is used must be one. This is because of the way that HC stores its first pass information.

I think I'll change the QuEnc balance preset to use just one core.

[Mr_Odwin]

I've updated to 0.92 and what I hope is an end to problems with non-english language on Windows. If magicclue and ryc0203 (and anyone else with non-english windows regional settings) could test this for me, I'd appreciate it.

[ajcool]

i am having an error with the new version before it even starts encoding it says "unable to process error generally occurs with avi synth isn't install. i have 2.5.7 installed...

why is it doing this?

[Mr_Odwin]

Can you create an avisynth script for the offending file yourself?
Can you play the file in windows media player?
What is the filetype? How was it made?

Did previous versions of FAVC work with this file?

[ajcool]

yes i am encoding the file just fine with .91 and with the same file in .92 i get that error.

i can play it in media player its an xvid and i have xvid codec installed

[Mr_Odwin]

When just encoding this file can you show me the contents of the Title0Info.avs? (It should be in the FAVC folder, in the most recent working folder.)

[magicclue]

I've updated to 0.92 ...If magicclue..could test this for me..

At first sight it seems to work.:D

I have no time at the moment- perhaps after the weekend.
Thanks for your hard efforts!

[captbilly]

please help! i have the curent versions of avisynth and .net . i am copying avi movies off of disc to convert to dvd. after the movie is in the computer, i get this message when dvd decrypter or imgburn tries to open the file " first image file part is less than 2048 bytes in size." i don't know what to do, please help!

[Mr_Odwin]

please help! i have the curent versions of avisynth and .net . i am copying avi movies off of disc to convert to dvd. after the movie is in the computer, i get this message when dvd decrypter or imgburn tries to open the file " first image file part is less than 2048 bytes in size." i don't know what to do, please help!

Is this a problem with FAVC? Just DVD Decrypter isn't a part of the FAVC package, so I'm a little confused.
If it is a FAVC problem then can you describe to me the files that are produced in the most recent Working Folder.

[Jiao]

hi, still waiting for subs support :P lol j/k there's no rush.

Another feature I'd like to see is batch encoding support. I think HCEnc doesn't work very well when two of them are running in the same time. It often leads to weird things such as no video in my dvds. So, I sometimes I need to make many dvds so I want each to trigger the next after the current on is done...

Ok that's weird, the last 2 encodes ended up with no BUP file? [HCEnc highest quality and AC3 448kbps]
Ok I did a low quality HCEnc encode and it works fine. I'm going to try to reproduce the problem.

I did it again on balance and highest quality and it didn't generate any IFO or BUP files. I also tried with the CQ setting, and it produced an empty IFO.

But, I used IFOEdit to make the IFOs and it plays fine.. :/ I don't think I ever had this problem with .91
Oh, and the videos I'm trying to encode are very high quality HDTV (900x700 or something like that)

Another feature request, is there a way so that I can delay the audio just a little bit? I have a video that's slightly out of sync..

[cc979]

just been testing favc.92 tried quenc in speed preset and it runs two of quenc - i have a single core athlon64

is it a bug or a feature?

it did not do it in quality mode

its handy tool btw, cheers

[cc979]

my mistake, just noticed that speed mode defaults to 2 cores, and balanced and quality defaults to 1 core

[Mr_Odwin]

hi, still waiting for subs support :P lol j/k there's no rush.

Another feature I'd like to see is batch encoding support. I think HCEnc doesn't work very well when two of them are running in the same time. It often leads to weird things such as no video in my dvds. So, I sometimes I need to make many dvds so I want each to trigger the next after the current on is done...

Ok that's weird, the last 2 encodes ended up with no BUP file? [HCEnc highest quality and AC3 448kbps]
Ok I did a low quality HCEnc encode and it works fine. I'm going to try to reproduce the problem.

I did it again on balance and highest quality and it didn't generate any IFO or BUP files. I also tried with the CQ setting, and it produced an empty IFO.

But, I used IFOEdit to make the IFOs and it plays fine.. :/ I don't think I ever had this problem with .91
Oh, and the videos I'm trying to encode are very high quality HDTV (900x700 or something like that)

Another feature request, is there a way so that I can delay the audio just a little bit? I have a video that's slightly out of sync..

HC doesn't like to have two instances running if it is in two-pass mode. Two instances using constant quant should be fine though. If there are still authoring problems you could try looking at the log file that muxman leaves behind in the working folder.

If you want to delay your audio go to the advanced scripting tab and in the bottom box use the avisynth delayaudio(*seconds go here*) command. Eg.

delayaudio(0.05)

or

delayaudio(-0.4)

[twinkysaurus]

Just starting to use FAVC, and I'm getting "overflow" errors with an XviD movie with AC3 in it.

Using: AviSynth 2.5.7, .NET Frameworks 2, & FAVC 0.92

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4611/favcv092erroroq7.png

[Jiao]

Is it possible to set the bitrate to 9000?

[Mr_Odwin]

Just starting to use FAVC, and I'm getting "overflow" errors with an XviD movie with AC3 in it.

Using: AviSynth 2.5.7, .NET Frameworks 2, & FAVC 0.92

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/4611/favcv092erroroq7.png

I need more details I'm afraid. What are your regional settings? When does the problem occur? Before video analysis or after?

Is it possible to set the bitrate to 9000?

Not at the moment - but it's probably a good idea for an option in the future. (Actually, for now, you could kill the conversion batch file and then go into the working files with a text editor and change all maximum bitrate settings yourself. Just restart the batch file and it'll all run but with the new settings)

[twinkysaurus]

I'm running on Default settings, but my DVD format is set to NTSC, and I've chosed HC as the encoder. Currently running on a low-end computer, if that matters.

The problem occurs after video analysis.

[cc979]

been using your tool its very handy, but is possible to use directshow input for audio

eg. i have a dolby encoded mp3 - its does decode into 5.1 in ffdshow audio - but it does work with favc it only detects it as 2 channel source

or maybe include a dolby decoder in favc

cheers

[Mr_Odwin]

If you mean that you have multichannel ac3 audio then there is an audio option to retain it - unless there is a good reason not to it should be "Retain if Present".
If it's something else then I'll look into it more.

[cc979]

If you mean that you have multichannel ac3 audio then there is an audio option to retain it - unless there is a good reason not to it should be "Retain if Present".
If it's something else then I'll look into it more.

no its a 2channel dolby encoded/dolby surround mp3

only i could do it was to extract the mp3 with virtualdubmod then i used behappy with directshow source using ffdshow set do decode dolby and make a new ac3 with aften, then replace the mp3 in the avi with the ac3 then use favc - so having a doldy decode or directshow audio source in your tool would be a lot quicker

cheers

[mrlithium]

Thanks, it works well, it'd be nice if the program gave an option for the working folder, for partition/drive space reasons.
Thats the one thing I thought really should be in here and made me take the time to make a post so you know that its important.

[Mr_Odwin]

Thanks, it works well, it'd be nice if the program gave an option for the working folder, for partition/drive space reasons.
Thats the one thing I thought really should be in here and made me take the time to make a post so you know that its important.

A custom working folder location is in the next release. The code has been written. I'm currently having some issues with subtitle support but I'm working on it. Having some problems with time availability too. :p

[davidk21770]

1st -- nice job :thanks:

Now...
When I make a DVD with multiple video files, I really find the way that the files are put on the DVD by muxman to be very clumsy to move through once you've finished the 1st video. Is there an "easy" edit of your scripts (MuxScript.mxp?) to make the files concatenated into a single video on the disk? Possibly with a chapter at the beginning of each individual video. (At least until you get menus up and working :devil: ).

[Mr_Odwin]

An easy option would be to for you to use muxman, with the files that are in the working folder after FAVC has finished. Just discard the dvd folder it produces and make your own.
But ... navigation should be fairly easy. Your dvd player should have on option to jump to a track/title. My dvd player gives this option when I press the 'display' button. A previous dvd player used a 'go to' button.

[davidk21770]

An easy option would be to for you to use muxman, with the files that are in the working folder after FAVC has finished. Just discard the dvd folder it produces and make your own.
But ... navigation should be fairly easy. Your dvd player should have on option to jump to a track/title. My dvd player gives this option when I press the 'display' button. A previous dvd player used a 'go to' button.D'oh. Never thought of jump to "title" being jump to track. This works for me, but unfortunately, not for my wife <sigh>.

As to muxman -- it's a little daunting in what you need to know about the raw details of a DVD for even a simple build. What I ended up doing with the last one for my wife was after favc finished, I used VideoRedo as a VOB->MPG converter and then another program to do the actual DVD build. Is there a muxman for novices anywhere?

[mrlithium]

Hi, i just did a conversion of 4 xvid full length movies into 1 4.37gb DVD, all the steps up until the final Mux worked as expected. the DVD came out to be 4.41GB not 4.37 so it didnt exactly fit...this led me to re-run the part of the script that encodes the audio in Aften for the 4th movie only, except i changed the bitrate from 224kbps to 160kbps to save enough space, and then re-ran the muxman section of the script and it reprocessed all the tracks and it fit...
But... the program produced a 0 byte long Video_TS.IFO file and therefore the disc wouldnt play.
I had to start a new Video_TS.IFO manually with PGCedit and and import the old VTS01_1.IFO files, which were fine for track 1, 2, and 3 but when I got to the 4th file It said "invalid PGCs in the domain of VTS 4: maximum number of valid PGCs: 63, Number of PGC's detected: 17494". strange, so I check the output that muxman displayed for track 4 and it responded with "Reference to non-existant scene "Segment_4_scn30" from PGC "VTS04_pgc1".". So I re-created an IFO file from the 4th track's VOB files with IFOedit and loaded that up into PGCedit and it accepted that, and it said it only had 29 cells. (29 chapters) as it should because the Chapter Times file for the 4th video only ever had 29 entries plus the movie was under 2:30:00 it was like 2:24:59 or something. In muxscript.mxp it has 30 entries for the 4th file and since the 4th VTS IFO file had an error saying scene 30 not found the ifo was incomplete [it was only 5kb at first before i recreated it]and it didnt produce any VIDEO_TS.IFO file(or VIDEO_TS.BUP) . i saved all my working folder if you want to ask me any questions. i'm comfortable enough doing things manually your tool just makes it so much easier, i can walk away for 5 hours and process automatically the steps of encoding, ripping and re-encoding the audio, muxing, authoring on as many tracks at once that i want. :thanks:
i guess the problem coulda been that I re-encoded the audio on the 4th file (but i just used the same script as you) or it could be the disc was NTSC. track 1,2,3 were NTSC but track 4 was PAL. and btw, the Working Folder 0 was only 4.14gb but then when the mux finished, the output folder turned out as 4.41gb is that normal for such a large increase?

[Thor263]

Thanks for developing this application - it's awesome. I do have a question though - how does FAVC decide the aspect ratio when encoding (4:3 or 16:9)? I'm asking because I was putting 4 similar AVIs together and it encoded 3 of them as 4:3 and one of them as 16:9.

[davidk21770]

I was having problems with audio synchronization until I tried directshowsource (as suggested herein). I now have perfect synchronization.

But, that setting seems to be the only one that I've used so far that doesn't stick -- ie., I have to choose it every time. (Just a suggestion for a future version :)).

[Mr_Odwin]

D'oh. Never thought of jump to "title" being jump to track. This works for me, but unfortunately, not for my wife <sigh>.

As to muxman -- it's a little daunting in what you need to know about the raw details of a DVD for even a simple build. What I ended up doing with the last one for my wife was after favc finished, I used VideoRedo as a VOB->MPG converter and then another program to do the actual DVD build. Is there a muxman for novices anywhere?

TMPGEnc DVD Author may be what you are looking for. It's not free though. Or maybe DVDStyler?


Hi, i just did a conversion of 4 xvid full length movies into 1 4.37gb DVD, all the steps up until the final Mux worked as expected. the DVD came out to be 4.41GB not 4.37 so it didnt exactly fit...this led me to re-run the part of the script that encodes the audio in Aften for the 4th movie only, except i changed the bitrate from 224kbps to 160kbps to save enough space, and then re-ran the muxman section of the script and it reprocessed all the tracks and it fit...
But... the program produced a 0 byte long Video_TS.IFO file and therefore the disc wouldnt play.
I had to start a new Video_TS.IFO manually with PGCedit and and import the old VTS01_1.IFO files, which were fine for track 1, 2, and 3 but when I got to the 4th file It said "invalid PGCs in the domain of VTS 4: maximum number of valid PGCs: 63, Number of PGC's detected: 17494". strange, so I check the output that muxman displayed for track 4 and it responded with "Reference to non-existant scene "Segment_4_scn30" from PGC "VTS04_pgc1".". So I re-created an IFO file from the 4th track's VOB files with IFOedit and loaded that up into PGCedit and it accepted that, and it said it only had 29 cells. (29 chapters) as it should because the Chapter Times file for the 4th video only ever had 29 entries plus the movie was under 2:30:00 it was like 2:24:59 or something. In muxscript.mxp it has 30 entries for the 4th file and since the 4th VTS IFO file had an error saying scene 30 not found the ifo was incomplete [it was only 5kb at first before i recreated it]and it didnt produce any VIDEO_TS.IFO file(or VIDEO_TS.BUP) . i saved all my working folder if you want to ask me any questions. i'm comfortable enough doing things manually your tool just makes it so much easier, i can walk away for 5 hours and process automatically the steps of encoding, ripping and re-encoding the audio, muxing, authoring on as many tracks at once that i want. :thanks:
i guess the problem coulda been that I re-encoded the audio on the 4th file (but i just used the same script as you) or it could be the disc was NTSC. track 1,2,3 were NTSC but track 4 was PAL. and btw, the Working Folder 0 was only 4.14gb but then when the mux finished, the output folder turned out as 4.41gb is that normal for such a large increase?

The problem may be a bug with my code, or with Batchmux's code. It's hard to say - I'll look into it more though.

Thanks for developing this application - it's awesome. I do have a question though - how does FAVC decide the aspect ratio when encoding (4:3 or 16:9)? I'm asking because I was putting 4 similar AVIs together and it encoded 3 of them as 4:3 and one of them as 16:9.

FAVC uses the aspect ratio provided by MediaInfo to determine 4:3 or 16:9 - anything over 1.74 is encoded as 16:9 (maybe with black bars). If there is a problem with a particular avi it is a problem with MediaInfo unfortunately.


I was having problems with audio synchronization until I tried directshowsource (as suggested herein). I now have perfect synchronization.

But, that setting seems to be the only one that I've used so far that doesn't stick -- ie., I have to choose it every time. (Just a suggestion for a future version :)).

Advanced settings don't stick as there is potential for some unwanted script settings sticking around - I'll probably add an option to overcome that.

[davidk21770]

As to muxman -- it's a little daunting in what you need to know about the raw details of a DVD for even a simple build. What I ended up doing with the last one for my wife was after favc finished, I used VideoRedo as a VOB->MPG converter and then another program to do the actual DVD build. Is there a muxman for novices anywhere?
TMPGEnc DVD Author may be what you are looking for. It's not free though. Or maybe DVDStyler?Thanks! I have a registered copy of TMPGenc DVD Author. I know that everyone raves about it, but IMO, it's MPEG conversion has more artifacts than others -- especially compared to what I get using the tools that you put together. I'll hunt around for DVDStyler.

[Mr_Odwin]

I've uploaded version 0.93 and updated the links in the first post. The biggest change is that subtitles are now supported. The srt file format is acceptable as input and the produced subs can be either soft or hard. Note that I have little use for subs, and therefore not much experience playing with them, so bug testing would be appreciated.

Other changes:
MediaInfo, Imgburn, HC & Muxman updated to latest versions
Presets account for single cores
Custom Working Folder location

[ricardo.santos]

Hi.
first i would like Mr Odwin for introducing sub capability in FAVC, i tested it a while back in its early stages it had some problems but as soon as i saw subtitle support i took it for a ride.

you said you didnt have much sub experience but let me tell you they look perfect, some prefer it with less/morre edges but they look perfect, audio/video/sub everything is in sync even when doing ntsc/pal conversion

video quality is good, simple and intuitive layout, on my first try everything went smooth, om my 2nd try quenc produced an error message but after clicking ok it carried on as normal, dvd was undersized by 180mg but nothing to worry about.

i just have a small request, the option for the user to "define" vertical subtitle position, the sub appear a bit high on screen (personal taste), but with DVDsubedit i could fix the position in 1 min.

i give it a 5 star rating even without menu support and subtitle position support.

Good Work Mr Odwin

[Mr_Odwin]

If you go into the FAVC folder, then into the subtitlecreator folder and open subtitle creator there is a profiles menu. The FAVC entries should be obvious. You can manage the profiles (including location on the screen) to your taste and then FAVC will use the altered ones in conversions. Please note that the order and location of the profiles is important. (i.e. FAVC PAL 4:3 should remain as profile 1.)

[jolson]

Hi,

I've been using DVD2SVCD for a while to resize/convert an AVI with AC3 audio + .srt subtitle to a DVD. All works well, apart from no support for italic/bold subtitles.

I understand this tool can take several AVI's, but if you start with only one AVI - are there anyway any advantages with FAC over using DVD2SVCD? Any disadvantages?

[Mr_Odwin]

Hi,

I've been using DVD2SVCD for a while to resize/convert an AVI with AC3 audio + .srt subtitle to a DVD. All works well, apart from no support for italic/bold subtitles.

I understand this tool can take several AVI's, but if you start with only one AVI - are there anyway any advantages with FAVC over using DVD2SVCD? Any disadvantages?

It's hard for me to say what the advantages are as I'm not an DVD2SVCD user. Maybe that speaks for itself - it's an alternative and if you like one you may not need to use the other. A possible disadvantage is that it requires the .NET Framework.
I can tell you what will happen in a typical FAVC 'single title' DVD. I'll assume that the avi has a framerate of 23.976 fps and that the destination is NTSC.

i) The Video is encoded with HC or QuEnc. (You can automate the splitting of the video into segments to enable a kind of dual-core support)
ii) Subtitles are converted from srt to sup via SubtitleCreator. (Italics and bold are supported by SubtitleCreator, as far as I'm aware.)
iii)The audio is encoded (ac3 via aften (or quenc) or mp2 via twolame (or quenc)).
iv) DGPulldown is used to perform pulldown on the video.
v) BatchMux is used to author the DVD - BatchMux uses Muxman.

There are a lot more options available but that's the crux of it.

I realise that a lot of work still goes into DVD2SVCD via users on this forum but perhaps an advantage of FAVC is that it is still being actively developed by me.

[DoctorRad]

When I try to encode with v0.93, I'm getting the following error almost immediately:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.

************** Exception Text **************
System.AccessViolationException: Attempted to read or write protected memory. This is often an indication that other memory is corrupt.
at FAVCForm1.MediaInfo_Close(Int32 Handle)
at FAVCForm1.Button1_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventArgs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
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Any idea what's going on? I'm using a P3 laptop running Win2k for this, any known compatibility problems?

Many thanks,

Dr. Matt...

[Mr_Odwin]

I'm sorry, I don't know what is going on there. There are no compatibility issues that I'm aware of.

[danielk68]

hi!
i have took a look at this nice app, and tried to manage
the subtitles issue, as you say via subtitle creator.

but i have found 2 problems
1. when i choose in the profile to change to font, it only allows
me to change to font but the script only has the western option.
my subtitles are in hebrew, and i need that this option be there.
2. i couldn't see anywhere where i can change the font color.

are these 2 issues are subtitle creator "bugs", or is there
anything that i can do?

thx in advanced
Daniel

(the colors option in at the top right of the form, doesn't apply
to the profile.

[Mr_Odwin]

The colors that are used for subtitles by FAVC are saved in two files - FAVCPalette.ifo and FAVCPalette.mxp, both in the SubtitleCreator folder. These files were created by exporting palettes from Subtitle Creator and they can be replaced by you with custom ones by using Subtitle Creator (File>Export Palette, and the colours option in at the top right of the form). Note that both files must contain the same palette and both files must not be renamed.
The script option is a font issue - find a font that supports what you need. A quick search through the fonts that I have there revealed that I had some Arabic ones. I assume that'll work. Try one of these fonts:
http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/hebfonts.htm

If that doesn't work then try asking in the subtitle forum, as I'm out of ideas.