DVD2AVI Sourceforge Project

[The Link]

@ Nic

Sorry! Happened accidentally and when I realized the binaries I couldn´t resist! Will start a conversion now and report back...

The Link

[lighty]

OK maybe I'm stupid but I've browsed through all the pages of this thread and haven't found link to the beta of Nic's version of DVD2AVI. I mean do I miss something or what? :confused:

[Nic]

People weren't supposed to get it, but they did, it was only on my site for beta testers, but they looked at the root of the dvd2avi directory & found it. Thanks to swede that cant happen anymore (& ive deleted the file anyway), You'll just have to wait till the release. I hope youll like it :)

Cheers,
-Nic

[The Link]

My result: audio-processing works, video not!

My system: P3 667, 256 MB SDRAM, Win2k SP2

Generally I have to say that DVD2AVI is a problematic tool for me because it sometimes makes my PC restart at any point. But it´s not reproduceable. That´s why my first attempt in the morning failed (computer rebooted and I had to go to work).

My second attempt:

1. I already have a DVD ripped on my HD so didnt use this function of your prog.

2. I loaded one of the vobs

3.I selected audio transcode (128 abr mp3), auto-clip and resized to 640x... then selected PAL 16:9

4. save avi 2pass -->configured Xvid

The mp3 is correct but I didn´t get a working avi. I tried different configurations of xvid but the result was always the same. It seems to me that DVD2AVI only does the first pass because the slider doesn´t go through for a second time (remains at the end after the first pass). I can´t do further testing now because I´ll not be at home this weekend. I hope I didn´t do some stupid mistake and my report helps you.

Regards

The Link

edit:
seemingly it´s all my fault! I just looked into x:\progams\DVD2AVI_NIC\system and found 1pass.avi, 1pas_1.avi ... It couldn´t do the 2nd pass because theres not enough space on this partition. I thought that only the selected output-folder will be used for writing files. So this report is rubbish!! :devil:

[Nic]

Maybe/maybe not, the firstpass avi file will be junked into the DVD2AVI/System directory. The 2pass avi will be created whereever you selected....

Please try again & tell me how it goes, also give detailed results of what you did/what happened if you can :)

Cheers,
-Nic

ps
The slider moves when creating the needed files for conversion (like the audio) then a progress dialog appears (the dialog will appear twice for 2pass)

[lighty]

Nic

Uffffff- I am not a patient person when it comes to waiting for new software release. :(
Damn! Hurry up, hurry up!! :sly:

[The Link]

...then a progress dialog appears (the dialog will appear twice for 2pass) From what you told I think diskspace couldn´t have been the problem. That dialog you mentioned apeared twice but only 2 seconds for each pass so formally it was OK but not technically. As I already mentioned I can´t do further testing until sunday evening. I hope that there are other people who will do so! ;)

Regards

The Link

[Nic]

Make sure you have avisynth.dll installed & in your System directory & try installing Huffyuv as well. As that helps on some systems.

Then let me know :)

Cheers,
-Nic

[The Link]

Make sure you have avisynth.dll installed & in your System directory ... If the installer did this it must be there because I didn´t delete anything. Avisynth is also installed by Gordianknot. Could there be the problem? I´ll be able to give closer information on sunday evening! :)
...& try installing Huffyuv as well. As that helps on some systems. Huffyuv is installed on my system. Do I need a special version?
Don´t get grey hair because of my testing! My windows-installation is pretty overaged and many manual registry cleanups have been made so it could be that a new win2k installation (which will be done next time) will solve all the problems! More representative testing should be done by other people!

Regards

The Link

[A_Pleite]

I somehow believe there aren´t loads of people with this tool.
I'd like to (beta-)test it, could you send the tool to me, please?

10x

A_Pleite

[The Link]

I'd like to (beta-)test it, could you send the tool to me, please? It´s on my computer and I´m not at home this weekend so there´s nothing I could send to you and I think Nic doesn´t want me to do so (I just got it accidentally)! You have to ask Nic for it.

Btw.: I didn´t know at 100% if you referred to me or Nic! If you meant Nic forget above!

[Kyo]

Well i come back after a power supply repair, f***** supply :devil:, better late than never ;)
and...

Movie: Snatch
no audio processig,
two pass,
and everything is ok.
the speed increase is really good, i got near 32 fps with bicubic resize.

Clip: Anime FLCL dvd2
Decomb, no audio, resize=soft, 1 pass and all work ok!
Speed is really nice ~22fps

MovieClip: SwordFish
audio=ogg internal transcode, drc=normal, Q=0.4 gain=2pass
resize=simpleresize

Error when hit the save(1pass) button:
...something(Spanish crap)..."residue_free_info in lib vorbis.dll"
then:
the instruction "0x10007695".. can´t not "read"...crap crap crap ;)
and finally:
dvd2avi die :(

and the same but mp3 instead... no errors! (ogg bug?)

Now with the filters...
SpatialSoftenMMX: Error in avishynt, no video
Temporal Soften2: No problems, ~29 fps(Simple Resize)!
Temporal Smoother: No problems, ~22fps(Bicubic Resize)

video_codec_used_all_above: Xvid last build, koepi

suggestions
-External load for .ogg will be welcomed
-in the clip&resize window the "ok" or "acept" button too

questions:
-When i load external .ac3 can i recompress it with the besweet frontend?
-Do u understand my crap english?
-You know how many watts eat an athlon xp? (j/k) :D

all above are suggestion, not demands of course :)

Really a nice work guys, good work Nic too, go on!

[Nic]

:D Cool im glad it worked great for you kyo :)I havent tested Ogg in a while, so it might well crash at present (I changed some of the DLLs recently & that NSIS installer that you downloaded, I'd only made the script for that day (it was .zip before)) So there could be a bug there...Ill test it.

At present you cant load an external .ac3 into DVD2AVI :(
(But it shouldnt really be necessary (??))

I understand your english fine :)

& Atlons suck power & run hot :)

Keep on testing, :)
-Nic

ps
I might add more betatesters soon, but not just yet. Im working on too many things on it (just bug fixing really)

pps
Anyone notice that DivX5.02 says it needs at least a 24bit or 32bit input. Yet it accepts YUY2 just fine??? (which is 16bit). But you have to tell DivX5.02 that YUY2 is 24bit to begin with??? Strange...

[Teegedeck]

I just wanted to let you know that the problem with 'The Mummy' has disappeared. :)

Still having troubles with BeSweet though. :( I wonder what I'm doing wrong, here...

[DSPguru]

Originally posted by Teegedeck
Still having troubles with BeSweet though. :( I wonder what I'm doing wrong, here... please post your logfile.

[Nic]

Ogg output is broken on the latest beta that is floating around (although it shouldn't be!) thats just a DLL issue (very easy to fix, just install OggDS.exe (tobias' ogg filters) & then remove the vorbis.dll in DVD2AVI's system directory.

@Dg: sorry Dg the beta doesn't produce logfiles (!) But noone was supposed to have it you see

-Nic

ps
remind me what happens with you & besweet Teege! (I thought I'd lost you after you didn't reply to my last PM)

[DSPguru]

@Nicky
imo, logfile should ALWAYS be produced.
also, little request : please add -profile( dvd2avi vX.XX ) as a suffix to the BeSweet commandline.

[Nic]

No sweat, logfiles are always created (& appended :) ) when using DVD2AVI, ill add that profile switch as well. Unfortunatly, the version that got release was not making logfiles (but as you know I didn't mean that version to get seen :) )

& I have a question for you about the DLLs BeSweet relies on for Ogg creation, although I pretty much know the answer, but ill give you a PM soon :)

Cheers,
-Nic

[The Link]

I just want to report that everything works now! :)
What previously went wrong: I checked the interlaced-checkbox in XVID because some scenes of my test-clip are interlaced. Now I unchecked it and everything works as it should! Greate proggy! I´m looking forward the first real public release.

Regards

The Link

[Teegedeck]

Hi Nic,

humm - I thought I did answer your last PM, but perhaps I missed the 'send'-button, was in a rush. ;)

I really hope you didn't think of me as unfriendly.

As for the beta, I can't help with much information, I'm afraid. Indeed, no log-files with that beta, it seems. Last time I tried to transcode (track 1) DVD2AVI just went out - alas, I won't be in reach of my PC for the rest of the weak, only this Mac again...

Oh, if you have time could you perhaps make the preview-window enlargeble for cropping? Making requests even before the official release, I should be ashamed of myself.

[gizmau]

@vlad59

finally i had time to test your dvd2avi and mpeg2dec2.dll.
dvd2avi works for me, no problems so far.
when using mpeg2dec2.dll cce crashes after _every_ pass on my athlon xp 2000+, no matter which idct i am using.
so it is quite useless to me. the 'old' mpeg2dec.dll works fine instead.

[vlad59]

@Gizmau

Now that you have time to test my program, I don't have any to debug it :( . The world is really unfair.

So you mean that mpeg2dec.dll work well during the first pass but crash when starting the second pass :confused: :confused: ????

That's strange. I perhaps have cleaned up to much code when I removed Dividee filters. I won't be able to check that till the last week of june, sorry. Did you get some speed increase ?

Thanks a lot for reporting this.

[gizmau]

@vlad59

as i just found out, your dvd2avi/mpeg2dec2 seems not to be the reason for the crash:

i upgaded from athlon1333C/kt133a to athlonxp2000+/kt266a and reinstalled xp. the installed your dvd2avi/mpeg2dec2, avisynth beta7, cce2.50, smartripper 2.41.

dvd2avi-project, avisynth/mpeg2dec2, cce as usual.

cce (patched of corse) crashed after completing the .vaf and then again after the first of 3 passes. very strange.
later the crash only happened after the .vaf.

i tried different dvd2avi from 1.76, 1.77, 1.82 (ogo) and yours - no change.
changed idct in .d2v - no change.
tested avisynth 1.0 beta 5, 6, and 7 - no change.
tested cce2.50 unpatched and different patch - no change.
tried link2 and cce2.62 - no change.
testet stability with prime95 - no problems.
neither my ram nor my cpu gets to hot or runs outside its spezifications. 46°C under full load should be more than cool enough, i think.

yes, i deleted registry settings for cce, vfapi, avisynth, .d2v.

the only thing which seems to be changed really is the support of sse, which my old athlonC didnt offer. i dont know what to do next - maybe reinstalling xp - again...

the speed increases were marginal but present, going up from 0,880 to 0,900. but i have to say, that the speed wasnt the main goal as i am quite worried about the crashes and didnt look at it.

[UPDATE]
i solved my problems by uninstalling/deleting all involved programs, then cleaned the registry by hand, removing everything connected to avisynth, cce, vfapi, dvd2avi. then deleted the directories. reboot.
reinstalled avisynth, dvd2avi, vfapi, cce.
now it works again :)