AVStoDVD Support Thread

[manolito]

Small request for the next version:

For high bitdepth sources the current ffms2 versions need the parameter colorspace="YV12". Without this parameter it quits with the error message that it cannot find a suitable output format.

Since A2D always needs YV12 output it won't hurt to specify this parameter no matter what the soure bitdepth is.
The last ffms2 version which works without the colorspace parameter is ffms2_r1140+101-avs+vsp.7z. Download here:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1783312#post1783312


Cheers
manolito

[Emulgator]

Many thanks to all for the continuous work !
System here: Win7U64 SP1, Avisynth is used in the Repository form
(no vanilla install at the usual place, rather switchable between 6 versions in separate folder by .bat file (Groucho2004 system)

I am just trying A2D 2.8.8 and it won't find any Avisynth installation, warns that it would be missing.

While my external AvsMeter 2.9.0 finds and reports all Avisynth versions I switch to.

Maybe somebody can enlighten me.

[Groucho2004]

Many thanks to all for the continuous work !
System here: Win7U64 SP1, Avisynth is used in the Repository form
(no vanilla install at the usual place, rather switchable between 6 versions in separate folder by .bat file (Groucho2004 system)

I am just trying A2D 2.8.8 and it won't find any Avisynth installation, warns that it would be missing.

While my external AvsMeter 2.9.0 finds and reports all Avisynth versions I switch to.

Maybe somebody can enlighten me.The problem is the Avisynth detection routine in AVStoDVD. It's very error prone and should be replaced. Since MrC is already using AVSMeter to detect clip properties it would be easy to also use it to detect the Avisynth version reliably -> "avsmeter avsinfo -log" and then parse the log file.

[manolito]

I am just trying A2D 2.8.8 and it won't find any Avisynth installation, warns that it would be missing.

AFAIK this warning is purely cosmetic and you can ignore it - of course only if AVS 2.60 or 2.61 Alpha or a current 32-bit AVS+ version is correctly installed. With AVS+ I also get this warning that at least AVS v. 2.60 is required (AVS+ returns 0.1.0 as the version number), but it never caused a problem for me. BTW I do not use Groucho's AVS switcher batch file, I copy the relevant files manually from the repository to the relevant folders. Both official installers for either classic AVS as well as for AVS+ work with AVStoDVD.

PLease have a look at this post and MrC's answer:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1775057#post1775057

[Groucho2004]

PLease have a look at this post and MrC's answer:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1775057#post1775057

Instead there is a show stop when AviSynth.dll is not found from the path taken from "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AviSynth" registy key.
This is nonsense. The entries under that key don't include the path where avisynth.dll is located (System32/SysWoW64). These entries only hold the install- and plugin path:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AviSynth]
@="D:\\Program Files\\AviSynth"
"plugindir2_5"="D:\\Program Files\\AviSynth\\plugins"
"initialplugindir"="D:\\Program Files\\AviSynth\\plugins"

[manolito]

This is nonsense. The entries under that key don't include the path where avisynth.dll is located (System32/SysWoW64).

Yes, you are right, I believe that this was an error from MrC.

AVStoDVD needs a 32-bit AviSynth.dll either in System32 (for a 32-bit Windows) or in SysWOW64 (for a 64-bit Windows), and I think it does check for this.

Whatever, if AviSynth is installed correctly then it will work in AVStoDVD, even if it throws a warning about an incorrect version in case you are using AVS+. After all AVStoDVD does not interface with AVS directly, it just creates an AVS script which becomes the input for the selected encoder. It does not even care for the AviSynth\Plugins folder, it loads all necessary plugins explicitly from its own Lib folder.

[Groucho2004]

Whatever, if AviSynth is installed correctly then it will work in AVStoDVD, even if it throws a warning about an incorrect version in case you are using AVS+.
Sure. However, my point is - It could be so simple to use a reliable way to detect Avisynth (via AVSMeter) instead of confusing users who don't know that they can ignore the warning. It's just seems bizarre to me to keep using this horribly flawed (well, at least from a developers point of view) detection method.

[manolito]

Well, you know how old AVStoDVD is... ;)

Newer AviSynth forks were non-existent then, and up to now only classic AVS 2.60 is officially supported. Users who want to try other AVS versions are on their own - or need to rely on information they can get at the usual places.

MrC has not posted here or at VideoHelp for almost 3 months now, his real life (work and family) seems to leave not much time for maintaining AVStoDVD these days. That's perfectly alright with me. The software is very mature as it is, and creating DVDs is not too sexy today so the user base is diminishing. Keeping the software up to date in the sense that it continues supporting current source formats is probably all anyone could ask for, and so far this seems to be the case.

[thescrapyard]

Well, you know how old AVStoDVD is... ;)

Newer AviSynth forks were non-existent then, and up to now only classic AVS 2.60 is officially supported. Users who want to try other AVS versions are on their own - or need to rely on information they can get at the usual places.

MrC has not posted here or at VideoHelp for almost 3 months now, his real life (work and family) seems to leave not much time for maintaining AVStoDVD these days. That's perfectly alright with me. The software is very mature as it is, and creating DVDs is not too sexy today so the user base is diminishing. Keeping the software up to date in the sense that it continues supporting current source formats is probably all anyone could ask for, and so far this seems to be the case.

He has said that real life and work leave him very little time for AVStoDVD these days so any updates have to be made that won't break or change anything that is already working fine, hence just minor updates as and when


I use the latest avisynth+, using the official installer, and it works perfectly with AVstoDVD. It just reports that encoding routines 'may' not work as the avisynth base isn't found. It still works though

https://github.com/pinterf/AviSynthPlus/releases


I also update AVSMeter when a new release comes out and also FFMPEG is updated to nightlies every now and then and both work perfectly. The nightly of FFMPEG (32bit static ONLY) seems to be faster for me. Just a case of overwriting the original or make a backup first just in case it does break something in AVStoDVD

[Emulgator]

Many thanks, that clears it up.
So I did safely ignore that warning and encoding did indeed start.

[dr_ml422]

All night now and I'm getting that " can not find Title 1 " error. Clean install, opens up in MPC classic etc..., tried w/ and w/out the .srt file and nothing. Everything was well until that file. It's a regular .,mp4 w/aac and etc... Here's the log file.

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DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: Burn DVD
DVD Label: 6.THE_WOLVERINE_2013~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D:\
DVD Burning Speed: 4x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: YES
Available Output Disc Space: 134 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.74.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: Enhanced Video Renderer
Xvid: Enhanced Video Renderer
DivX 4/5/6: Enhanced Video Renderer
Other MPG4: Enhanced Video Renderer
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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It says No FFDshow? I just finished installing the Klite Full Codec pack which I think includes ffdshow if I'm not mistaken.

another one just in case.

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DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: Burn DVD
DVD Label: 6.THEWOLVERINE EXTENDED 2013~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.73.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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[manolito]

A few remarks about your log files:

Why did you cut out the most relevant parts? Please post the full log file so we can see the error messages.

Codec Packs like K-Lite are evil. AVStoDVD supports LAV Filters and ffdshow as DirectShow Filters. But just one or the other, not both. And then you overlooked the fact that starting with Win7 Microsoft decided that users are not smart enough to decide which DS filters to use, so they created a "Preferred Filters" registry entry (not editable by users without first grabbing the rights), and no matter which different filters a user installs, they won't get used.

The safest way for AVStoDVD is to go to "Codecs -> Preferred Directshow Codecs Setup" and set ALL codecs to LAV Filters. If your LAV Filters were installed by a codec pack you might have the additional problem that the codec pack might have altered the LAV configuration. It looks like for your second log file you did use LAV Filters exclusively, so maybe a codec pack excluded some formats from the LAV configuration.

To rule out all DirectShow related problems you can specify "FFmpegSource" for video and audio under "Preferences -> AviSynth". This will use ffms2 as your source filter bypassing DirectShow completely.

To fully understand your issues please post the full AVStoDVD log file, and a MediaInfo report about your source file would also be very useful.

[dr_ml422]

I downloaded Klite Full afterwards not before. It uses LAV now and not ffdshow. I made sure all the directshow filters were set to LAV both 32 bit and 64 bit. Should uninstall Klite Full along with MPC HC? This was my first log of that file. I have a more recent one as well that says .Net framework 2 not found on my computer? Something's not right. Worked just fine then all of a sudden all these issues. Here goes:

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DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: Burn DVD
DVD Label: 6THEWO~1 EXTENDED 2013
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.73.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: DVD Folder
DVD Label: 6THEWO~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.73.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: DVD Folder
DVD Label: 6THEWO~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.73.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: Burn DVD
DVD Label: 6THEWO~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.73.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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DVD Video Standard: NTSC
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
DVD Output Setup: Burn DVD
DVD Label: 6THEWO~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.73.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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DVD Size: 4450/4450 MB (100%)
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DVD Label: 6THEWO~1
DVD Menu: Static Menu
Output Folder: C:\Users\Noloc42\Videos
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Show Progress Status window

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Lanczos4Resize/Spline16Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 0
FPS Hard Conversion: 0
PAL SpeedUp: 0
NTSC SlowDown: 0
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2500
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 1
AC3 Audio Encoder: 0
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 192
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 1
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: D: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NSB0 LF00
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 1
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 1
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Operating System: Windows 10 (10.0.17763) 64 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (3)
Available Output Disc Space: 144 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.0)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.74.1)
ffdshow is installed: NO

CODECS REPORT

H.264/AVC: LAV Video Decoder
Xvid: LAV Video Decoder
DivX 4/5/6: LAV Video Decoder
Other MPG4: LAV Video Decoder
DV: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG1: LAV Video Decoder
MPEG2: LAV Video Decoder
AAC: LAV Audio Decoder
MP3: LAV Audio Decoder
MP2: LAV Audio Decoder
AC3: LAV Audio Decoder
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<3/27/2019 7:12:42 AM>
AVStoDVD Project ended successfully.
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[manolito]

All your logs look incomplete. Right after the codecs report comes the message "Project ended successfully", and the time stamp of this message shows only less than 10 seconds after the project start.

Here is my log of a complete short conversion:

<29.03.2019 11:12:04>
START PROCESS
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<29.03.2019 11:12:04>
PROJECT SETTINGS

DVD Video Standard: PAL
DVD Titles number: 1
DVD Size: 266/4450 MB (6%)
DVD Output Setup: MPEG2-Datei
DVD Label: DVD
DVD Menu: No Menu
Output Folder: I:
Delete Temp Assets Files: Yes
Delete Temp Working Files: Yes
Edit Command Parameters: No
Post Process Task: Fortschrittsfenster anzeigen (Voreinstellung)

PREFERENCES

MultiThread: 1
AVS Video Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS Audio Source Filter: A2DSource
AVS UpSize/DownSize Filter: Spline36Resize/Spline36Resize
Frame Adjust Strategy: 1
FPS Hard Conversion: 2
PAL SpeedUp: 1
NTSC SlowDown: 1
Video Resolution: 0
Video Encoder: 0
Video BitRate Min: 2000
Video BitRate Max: 8500
Keep DVD Compliant Video: 0
AC3 Audio Encoder: 2
Force FFmpeg for Long Audio: 1
DVD Audio Format: 0
DVD Audio BitRate: 224
Keep DVD Compliant Audio: 0
Normalize Audio: 0
Auto Delay Audio: 1
DVD Audio Language (Primary): DE - German
DVD Audio Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Language (Primary): DE - German
DVD Subs Language (Secondary): EN - English
DVD Subs Font: Tahoma 16pt (240,240,240)
Chapters Interval: 5
Use Source Chapters: 1
DVD Burning Drive: H: BENQ DVD DD DW1620 B7W9
DVD Burning Speed: 8x
Auto Erase DVD RW: 0
Unload ActiveMovie Library: 0
Adjust DirectShow Filters at runtime: 1
Save General Settings: 0

SYSTEM INFO

Processor Name:
Operating System: Windows XP - Service Pack 3 (5.1.2600) 32 bit
User has Admin Rights: YES
Running with Elevated Privileges: NO (-1)
Available Output Disc Space: 43 GB
AviSynth is installed: YES (release 2.6.1)
LAV Filters is installed: YES (release 0.69.0)
ffdshow is installed: NO
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<29.03.2019 11:12:04>
TITLE 1 SOURCE FILES
Video: I:\Test.flv
Info: AVC - 400 kbps - 544x408 - DAR 4:3 - 25 fps - Progressive - 7:01 minutes - 10527 frames
Audio 1: I:\Test.flv
Info: AAC LC - 94 kbps - CBR - 2 ch - 44100 Hz - 16 bit - 7:01 minutes (57 ms delay)
[MediaInfoLib - v18.05]
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<29.03.2019 11:12:04>
AVISYNTH SCRIPT
Import("E:\Programme\AVStoDVD\Lib\A2DSource.avsi")

Video = A2DVideoSource("I:\Test.flv", CacheFolder="I:", FrameRate=25)
Audio = A2DAudioSource("I:\Test.flv", CacheFolder="I:")

Video = Video.ConvertToYV12()
Video = Video.Spline36Resize(720,576)

Audio = Audio.SSRC(48000)
Audio = Audio.DelayAudio(0.057)

AudioDub(Video, Audio)
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<29.03.2019 11:12:04>
DIRECTSHOW AUDIO MIXER OPERATIONS:
No LAV Filters mixer ON/OFF adjustment required at runtime
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<29.03.2019 11:12:04>
START VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Video Encoding Profile: FFmpeg CBR 1-pass
Target Video FileSize: 250,9 MB
Encoding Parameters: -i "I:\DVD_Test_1.avs" -threads 1 -aspect 4:3 -c:v mpeg2video -b:v 5000k -minrate 5000k -maxrate 5000k -bufsize 2000k -dc 9 -y "I:\DVD_Test.m2v"
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<29.03.2019 11:27:12>
END VIDEO ENCODING OPERATIONS
Video Source Filter: A2DSource - DSS2 mod (LAV Filters on)
Created File: I:\DVD_Test.m2v (213,7 MB)
Ouput Video Info: MPEG-2 Video - 4247 kbps - 720x576 - DAR 4:3 - 25 fps - Progressive - 7:02 minutes - 10550 frames
Avg Video Encoding Speed: 12,4 fps
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<29.03.2019 11:27:12>
START AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
FFmpeg Parameters: -i "I:\DVD_Test_1.avs" -threads 1 -y -vn -c:a ac3 -ab 224k "I:\DVD_Test_1.ac3"
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<29.03.2019 11:30:28>
END AUDIO ENCODING OPERATIONS (Track 1)
Audio Source Filter: A2DSource - DirectShowSource
Created File: I:\DVD_Test_1.ac3 (11,3 MB)
Output Audio Info: AC3 - 224 kbps - CBR - 2 ch - 48000 Hz - 16 bit - 7:02 minutes (0 ms delay)
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<29.03.2019 11:30:28>
START MUXING OPERATIONS
Mplex Parameters: -f 8 -L 48000:2:16 -o "I:\DVD_Test.mpg" "I:\DVD_Test.m2v" "I:\DVD_Test_1.ac3"
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<29.03.2019 11:31:08>
END MUXING OPERATIONS
Created File: I:\DVD_Test.mpg (230,2 MB)
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<29.03.2019 11:31:08>
AVStoDVD Project ended successfully.
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<29.03.2019 11:31:08>
Log file created by AVStoDVD Release 2.8.8 Hotfix build 190115
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According to your logs AVStoDVD does not even show title information or the created AVS script. Something about your system configuration must be terribly wrong.

I do know that A2D runs under Win10, MrC does test the software under Win10. So I can just guess what is wrong here. Could be the Codec Pack, could be an antivirus software which blocks something important, could be that you tried to update some helper software with newer but incompatible versions. Whatever, if you do not have an image backup made before these problems appeared then the best advice I have is a fresh reinstall of Windows and all your software.

Should uninstall Klite Full along with MPC HC?

One of the problems about Codec Packs is that you just cannot uninstall them completely. In most cases they leave stuff behind, and oftentimes they have reconfigured other stuff which persists even after uninstalling.


About .Net framework you should read the A2D manual under the FAQ section. NET Framework 2.0 is only necessary for SubtitleCreator. For users who do not need subtitles .NET Framework is not required for using AVStoDVD.

From the A2D manual:
SubtitleCreator requires .NET Framework 2 to run. You can download .NET 2 from Microsoft website. You can also download .NET 3.5 which includes .NET 2 and .NET 3. Unfortunately .NET 4.x packages do not include previous releases libraries, so you have to install either .NET 2 or .NET 3.5.

If you have Windows 10, you can activate .NET 3.5 by following this guide: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install-insiderplat_pc/how-to-instal-net-framework-35-on-windows-10/450b3ba6-4d19-45ae-840e-78519f36d7a4

[dr_ml422]

Those are the logs that came up. The issue is something, as AVStoDVD is not the only encoding program installed and working. ConvertXToDVD, ConvertXtoVideo despite it not supporting h.264, DVDFAB, VidCoder, .... I read and installed the .net framework 3.5 just for AVStoDVD as no other needed it to insert subtitles. Matter of fact I'm finishing whatever was done and not done with ConvertXToDVD.

A suggestion would be to concentrate on the newer updated versions of Windows and have the software completely up to date. Let users meet you at the present level. Many don't want to acknowledge the new and prefer to hold on to the past and it causes issues.

Matter of fact even Microsoft decided to concentrate on newer, present level hardware etc... and not support older depecrated hardware, OD, etc... Even yourself got tired of that useless QUenc.

That said with that file and 9 others similar, AVStoDVD couldn't acknowledge the dual Audio. I could care less about the Hindu, it came from land of the files iykwim. Lol...

I had to get rid of 2 perfectly well burners because of Windows 10. Didn't know that they weren't supported until I did research.

Easy does it. I know this is hard work. Especially as a gift from yourself and all others. We'll figure it out. I will definitely have to build me a newer more updated PC, as Windows 10 expects. XP was a God back then, only 1 CD. I still have a disc. 2019 is here.

The internal or even external player won't play unless ffdshow is installed. I'm not going to install it as LAV is doing the necessary work.

[manolito]

AVStoDVD is written in Visual Basic 6. Very old, only partly supported in Win10, but it sure does work. Only 32-bit helper software is supported, if a user tries to outsmart the author and replace some 32-bit helper software with 64-bit versions then he/she should not complain if it does not work. The same goes for other tools like MediaInfo where the latest versions are not supported.

I do not use Win10 (for me it is evil spyware), technically it has absolutely nothing to offer over Win7. Of course there are (mostly younger) folks who feel that newer is always better, but those folks should not use software like AVStoDVD.

From your log files I can see that your system configuration has huge problems, of course AVStoDVD can work together with other video converters like ConvertXToDVD, ConvertXtoVideo, DVDFAB, VidCoder, but not if you destroyed some basic configuration settings.

I'm out of here, I think you will be better off using other video conversion software than AVStoDVD.

[dr_ml422]

manolito you don't have to go anywhere. You're you. Only thing is everyone one else and everything else is not. That's all that was needed was to establish the fact that the software really isn't up to date. Please try not to berate new members or their systems, ways, views, etc... If my system is not configured correctly nothing would work, especially Video software. If you want to do something positive then just for the sake of the software bring it up to date. I can't change your view on life, though I can only suggest that you will never, ever beat any establishment, you can only work with it and take what you can and leave the rest. I seriously doubt MS or Apple, or Ubuntu, or anything else running in this present day is going to stop for you or anyone else. Matter of fact the whole USA is behind the times. Most other places have been implementing x64 computing for a while now and as default. It's a great program. Maybe too many individual parts to ever work right all the time even if updated. The probability that something will err out is very high when there's too much not working in sync or at least close to it. It's in your hands. The April 2nd update is here and I doubt it's stopping because of the few. I myself didn't learn to smarten up until recently. I kept trying to get married when the first sin ever recorded for those that follow, was the deception of a woman. So why should I expect anything different now in 2019? Something to think about. Stop being lazy. Grab the bull by the horns and get to work. I wish I could compensate for the hard work no matter you're position. A little something always comes in handy. If one day my fortune changes I'll blow up the donate button and Amazon Gift card. One day is not today. I'm heading to either Amazon, Microcenter, or both to full proof a new build soon. Windows 10 requires updated hardware so I will update it. Simple. Never have I understood why some come to the party and at least don't try to dance.
I've learned that I will never change who I am, though I do my best to change my response to everything. All will work out for the best.

[Groucho2004]

I kept trying to get married when the first sin ever recorded for those that follow, was the deception of a woman.Maybe you'd be happier with a man? Any recorded sins with that gender?


Never have I understood why some come to the party and at least don't try to dance.They don't want to hurt anyone.

[dr_ml422]

If you don't comprehend what I'm saying then please refrain. Usually those that speak about men are the ones that get with them. This is a forum for knowledge. Not to get off on your plastic ego when no one is in front of you.

Otn. You have to have everything downloaded for this to work properly. Including Java runtime. Now it's working like never.

manolito is a big boy mr. Groucho. He doesn't need to be cuddled by anyone. Especially you. Stop behaving as an emotional 2 year old coming to someone's rescue. Remember please if there's enough space between your ears what happens to volunteers and heroes. You want to be useful? Shut up and fix w/e is still wrong with any freeware. It's free for a reason.
I will definitely hit the donate button for whomever the link to AVStoDVD goes. It's worth it. Again make sure everything is installed, and if the preview window doesn't open the file run the AviSynth tool from the codec option. Also just close it and open it up again. If it goes black your good.
I've had more women than you or anyone you know has ever had! Even if I go right now and you stay I'd have more. If you're one of these puppies that wobble their heads up and down every time your w/e significant other says something, then please refrain from a real man's world. Have a good night. Beware of open subtitles.org, they're messing with the subs and hardcoding them with a sign up message. Screwed me up after a 2 hour encode. Common sense isn't common anymore. Why on earth provide a free service then complain about it. If you want to charge then charge from the beginning.

[thescrapyard]

Don't use codecs packs, they can and usually do cause more headache than they claim to fix. I tried them a few years back and ended up doing a full system reinstall because of all the drivers they updated or replaced with their own 'optimized' versions and made a right mess

LAVFilters should be good enough for pretty much everything. I use only PotPlayer and its good enough MLC should be even easier. I personally stay away from VLC Player after trying to use a few different times but other love it

I went back to Windows 7 as I got fed up of Windows 10 telling me half my software wasn't doing things the Microsoft way and refusing to play nicely with them

There are 'some' things that CAN be replaced with 64-bit versions in AVStoDVD, BUT make sure its working first THEN replace files. If it breaks then YOU have made the mistake

DO NOT replace FFMPEG with 64bit versions it WILL NOT work, I've tried and it won't. 32bit and 64bit are actually not that much different in speed, more about how much memory then can access

If you think AVStoDVD is outdated, then try looking at DVD Rebuilder. Thats even older and hasn't been updated in years BUT its very very good at what it does and the output quality is better than anything. That also uses HCEnc so the quality is on par


AVStoDVD works great with Avisynth and also now Avisynth+, which is why I use it, some don't work correctly and has difficulties with complex scripts (MeGUI personally is a pain)


My suggestion is to total remove AVStoDVD from your system, and klite codecs pack (if you can remove it ALL). Reinstall AVStoDVD (noinstall is my persoanl choice), install LAVFilters ONLY and try again (Make sure to check the codecs as Microsoft has a habit of refusing to change to anything but theirs ... which suck). If it still fails then you KNOW AVStoDVD is at fault

Dual audio DOES work, BUT some video releases from 'sources' fails to play convert, as I personally, just simply a crap source

[Groucho2004]

Usually those that speak about men are the ones that get with them.
...
I've had more women than you or anyone you know has ever had! Even if I go right now and you stay I'd have more. If you're one of these puppies that wobble their heads up and down every time your w/e significant other says something, then please refrain from a real man's world.
You don't have to pretend to be something you're not. Denial is toxic. Embrace what you are!

[manolito]

You have to have everything downloaded for this to work properly. Including Java runtime. Now it's working like never.

AVStoDVD comes with a very good and comprehensive documentation. These days unfortunately a lot of users think that reading manuals is a waste of time... :devil:

From the doc:
Software requirements
· Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8/10
· Microsoft DirectX 9.0 or higher
· AviSynth 2.6.0 or higher (AviSynth 2.6.0 is included in the installer)
· A good media splitter (LAV Filters 0.73.1 is included in the installer)
· A good 32bit DirectShow codecs/filters suite (LAV Filters is included in the installer, ffdshow is a valid alternative, but do not install both of them)
· Microsoft Windows Common Controls 6.0 ActiveX Library (mscomctl.ocx, included in the Installer, see the NOTE below)
· Microsoft .NET Framework 2 (required to encode and author text-based subtitles)
· Java Runtime Environment (required to encode and author bitmap-based subtitles)
· ImgBurn 2.5.0.0 or higher (not mandatory, but required to build DVD ISO Images and to burn DVDs)

For updating the A2D helper software also have a look at this post:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1814958#post1814958

Cheers
manolito

[dr_ml422]

Everything seems to be fine now. I downloaded and installed everything including Java Script. Only thing now is a darker output? Was this taken care of previously in an update? I see mention of it in a post, but just an individual adjustment with Lumin Gain or something like that.

Hope anyone who likes it is enjoying "Game Of Thrones". It really is one of the best series all time imho.

How is DVDStyler fairing nowadays? Should I go with the 64 bit build or stay with the 32 bit? Not too many apps I've used in 64 bit have really panned out. Always something going wrong. Looks great!

I'm looking into the AVStoDVD Helper software update now. Thanks.

Be very cautious when using OpenSubtitle as they now are almost demanding support?! When using MPC's auto subtitle option it goes to opensubtitle and it downloads and puts in the subtitle. Only thing it comes with a warning message embedded in all the way through the movie. Or it'll just say it at the end. It totally messed up at least 2 of my movies from AVStoDVD and I had to redo them over from scratch.

Do you highly recommend that flawlessly working FFMS2 C plugin to update the older one? Thanks.

[manolito]

Only thing now is a darker output?

This should not happen. The most likely reason is that your source uses a different color scheme than your target. Generally you can say that HD content uses Rec709 and SD content is Rec601. But this is not always the case, and AVStoDVD makes no general assumption about the source color format. Only if MediaInfo explicitly reports Rec709 the ColorMatrix filter will be automatically used to convert the color to Rec601.

So if you find a discrepancy between the source and the target, you need to experiment with the ColorMatrix filter in your AVS script. If Colormatrix is present, try to comment it out and see what happens. If it is not there, try to add it right after the source filter.

How is DVDStyler fairing nowadays? Should I go with the 64 bit build or stay with the 32 bit? Not too many apps I've used in 64 bit have really panned out.

Compared to AVStoDVD you will get much more elaborate menu creation abilities. For transcoding it only uses FFmpeg (A2D uses FFmpeg only for very high video bitrates, otherwise it uses HCenc). Most people say that HCenc creates slightly better quality encodes than FFmpeg, but when using the right parameters FFmpeg these days certainly delivers very high quality. Since my FFmpeg-VBR plugin has been transparently integrated into DVDStyler the quality may even be higher in some cases than HCenc, at least for low bitrate encodes. You need to test this yourself.

If the 64-bit version of DVDStyler gives you a speed boost mainly depends on how much memory FFmpeg will address when doing an MPEG2 encode. Since the output will be SD and not HD the memory consumption is probably quite limited, so the speed gain will be small or even nonexistent. Personally I only use the 32-bit version of DVDStyler.

Do you highly recommend that flawlessly working FFMS2 C plugin to update the older one?

See this post:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1868878#post1868878

If you never use high bitdepth sources then you won't be affected, no problem to continue using the version which comes with AVStoDVD.


Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

Guys, just to tell you that AVStoDVD is still alive (for the dinosaurs like me that stubbornly use it). A new release will be available soon. Mainly bugfixes (e.g. https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1868878&postcount=3151 or https://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1869507&postcount=3153) and support to HDMV presentation graphics BluRay subs.

Stay tuned.

;)

Bye

P.S. Now is the right time to go out with requests, suggestions and complaints. Not too fanciful, we come from the Jurassic.

[manolito]

Guys, just to tell you that AVStoDVD is still alive (for the dinosaurs like me that stubbornly use it).

This is really good news... :D:D

Just when I started to think that this software is no longer maintained. My usual threshold is 6 months. If a software has not been touched by its author for this time then it is normally safe to assume that there will be no further development. Almost 5 months in this case...

I cannot think of too many feature requests, the software is almost perfect in its current state. The bug fixes you already mentioned (of course do not forget to integrate the latest hotfix from 15.01.2019) will be very welcome.

No idea if supporting AVS+ better by adding multithreading automatically would be a good idea. It is not without problems depending on the plugins which are used, so it mght be better to leave it to the users to add the appropriate params to the AVS script. The same goes for the LSMASH source filter. In some cases it gives better results than FFMS2, but the interface is not compatible with FFMS2, and advanced users can easily add it themselves by editing the AVS script.

Alright, these are my 2 cents...

Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

My bad... AVS+ w/ SSRC (https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1811053#post1811053)...

In your knowledge, are there any other classic AVS functions that do not "explicitly" works with AVS+?

:scared:

Bye

[manolito]

Thanks for digging out this 2 year old stuff. It was amazing for me to see how I got carried away quite a bit in my disgust about the AVS+ devs deliberately breaking backward compatibility to classic AVS. But my points are still valid.

And so far (to the best of my knowledge) this is the only occasion where AVS+ is not compatible with classic AVS.

Luckily this has only a minor impact for AVStoDVD. If the selected source filter can output 32-bit float audio then there is no problem if the script contains SSRC. For LAV audio this means that the user should not disable 32-bit float audio in the audio filter setup. For all audio source formats I use LAV audio will output 32-bit float as long as the user has not disabled it.

FFMS2 also outputs 32-bit float audio by default, there is no problem with AVS+.


But integrating AVS+ support into AVStoDVD still can cause problems. Just adding a "Prefetch()" command at the end of the AVS script won't be enough. There are many older AVS plugins which need special treatment when multithreading is enabled.

I had numerous problems with random crashes until almosely posted this:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1865279#post1865279

There are a couple of older filters which need to be run in MT_SERIALIZED mode, sometimes requiring an additional "RequestLinear" command. Colormatrix is one of the problematic filters. After a lot of experimentation I managed to get AVS+ running absolutely stable on my machine, but the speed gain from multithreading is far from spectacular. All the additional AVS+ features like support for high bit depth and fancy color spaces are irrelevant for AVStoDVD since the DVD format only supports 8-bit with 4-2-0 color space (YV12).

So I really do not know if AVS+ support is essential for AVStoDVD. My FF_VBR and HCenc_Mod plugins do support it already, but they require a little bit of effort from the users.


Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

Yeah, I got thru the posts your disappontment... it was mine as well.

In case of using LAV Filters or FFMS2 there are no problems, but if using MS filters (like MP3 Decoder DMO, which is not that bad), the output is not float, so AVS+ throws out an error w/ SSRC. Anyway, when AVS+ is detected, I will add a ConvertAudioToFloat function to SSRC.

Thanks for the other hints about AVS+. Nevertheless I'm not willing to add full compliance to AVS+, for now. Simply I do not have the time to do that.

2.8.9 Alpha is almost ready.

;)

Bye

[manolito]

Nevertheless I'm not willing to add full compliance to AVS+, for now. Simply I do not have the time to do that.

This is fine with me. Maybe I will add a small guide how to use AVS+ with my FFmpeg_VBR and HCenc_Mod plugins to my plugin distribution...


Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

AVStoDVD 2.8.9 Alpha 190519 is available (https://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/files/avstodvd_alpha_beta/AVStoDVD%202.8.9%20Alpha%20190519/).

Change log:

- Added support to PGS BluRay subtitles
- Added handling and display of MediaInfo BitDepth video tag
- Added support to 8 channels audio source (Downmix.avsi script file updated)
- Improved Muxing routine: better errors handling and switch to FFmpeg (instead of Mplex) when no audio source is present
- Improved usage of FFMS2: now YV12 colorspace is always specified (A2DSource external AviSynth function updated as well)
- Improved AviSynth program info retrieving routine (now using AVSMeter)
- LAV Filters updated to release 0.74.1

Feedbacks and suggestions are welcome, mainly on 8 to 6 audio channels downmix routine, which is very basic.

;)

Bye

[manolito]

Thanks a lot for this new version, put it on my test bench already, here's what I think...

As usual I cannot comment on the new subtitle support feature. I don't do BluRay, and I don't ever use subtitles.

The same goes for the 8-channel audio downmix feature. I only do stereo (maybe mono sometimes) and 6-ch audio sources, I never came across an 8-ch audio source. I would suggest to ask Tebasuna about the new downmix.avsi.

The new muxing routine for sources without any audio tracks works fine. The only thing I found is that for such cases the AVS script is not deleted, even if the options to delete helper files are ticked. No big deal. BTW you could have continued using mplex even for video-only sources by omitting the -L option of mplex.

Always specifying the YV12 colorspace option for ffms2 works perfectly.

Adding the ConvertAudioToFloat function to SSRC does not work for PAL speedup or NTSC slowdown. For a command like this:
AssumeFPS("pal_film", sync_audio=true).SSRC(48000)
the ConvertAudioToFloat call does not get added. BTW for the sake of consistency you should use ConvertAudioToFloat() with the brackets.

And now really nitpicking... :D
The new AviSynth detection routine using AVSMeter works nicely, but it sure slows down the AVStoDVD startup. Not too bad on my Core i5 Win 7 laptop, but very much on my ancient desktop machine. (please ignore this...)


Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

Thanks manolito, you are my usual savior :)

To mitigate the slow start, I can add a message to wait for the ext sw properties to be read.

;)

Bye

[Groucho2004]

The new AviSynth detection routine using AVSMeter works nicely, but it sure slows down the AVStoDVD startup.AVSMeter checks all auto-load plugins for compatibility/dependencies/bitness. If you have lots of plugins and a slow CPU, this will slow down the detection process.

AVStoDVD should probably check the "[Plugin errors/warnings]" section of the log file (if present, see example below) and throw an error message if necessary.

[Plugin errors/warnings]
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Cannot load file 'E:/Apps/VideoTools/AVSPlugins/AutoLoad/LSMASHSource.dll'. Platform returned code 127:
The specified procedure could not be found.

Note: You may need a newer OS version in order to use this plugin
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Alternatively, I may add a switch for basic Avisynth info without the plugin parsing.

[manolito]

Maybe I will add a small guide how to use AVS+ with my FFmpeg_VBR and HCenc_Mod plugins to my plugin distribution...

Done... :)

Download link is at the bottom of this post:
https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1814958#post1814958


Cheers
manolito

[manolito]

To mitigate the slow start, I can add a message to wait for the ext sw properties to be read.


No need for this any more...

I had a PM exchange with Groucho2004, and he agreed to compile a modded version of AVSMeter 2.6.5 especially for AVStoDVD. This modded version does not check the AVS autoload plugins at all making it way faster than the original version. On my Win7 computer with AVS+ there is almost no startup delay at all, and on my ancient WinXP machine the delay was reduced from more than 15 seconds to less than 3 seconds.

Here is the link:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1ekmfrhlkf4te3/AVSMeter_265_mod01.7z?dl=1

Please include this version with the next AVStoDVD versions, and many thanks to Groucho 2004... :D:D


Cheers
manolito

[MrC]

Great! Special release for A2D! Wow! Thanks manolito and Groucho2004. I will check it out ASAP.

;)

Bye

[dr_ml422]

Thank you very much manolito for all your help and your input! everything seems to be working fine with AVSTODVD now, especially after I installed Java. I think that it probably was the source a bit that was a bit dark and so when putting it through AVS to DVD it just came out just a little bit darker but it was dark to begin with. The movie was "Unforgiven" and that movie is dark to begin with anyway. Yes I stayed with the 32-bit applications myself because as I said many of the 64-bit applications just don't take well for whatever reason. I don't think they pay too much mind to it seeing that here in the states we're way behind in a lot of things especially with 64-bit computing. There's not too much of a speed gain that you will get with 64-bit and video work. The only observable gains that you will ever get with video work and encoding is having at least a quad-core and up CPU and of course the appropriate Ram to go with it.

if there's anything that needs to be looked at would be the preview window which as I noticed all you have to do if it doesn't show up the first time is just close it and open it up again and then you will get the picture going. other than that everything has been working very very well with Windows 10 64-bit home premium and the last build before the next 1809 update.

Manolito I'm going to take a look at DVD Styler as it's been getting a lot a lot of positive reviews online if you haven't noticed it yet. Seems they've been keeping up with it and keeping it present with any bugs and fixes etc etc.

Yes you're correct about the ffmpeg encoder and how to use it correctly. I'm not that skilled knowing how to be as advanced user with those kind of things, the only thing I've seen is that VSO's convert x to DVD and anything else they use is based on the ffmpeg encoder and they seem to be doing very very well with that app. They also have some kind of optimization going on as well that I don't know about which will give you almost always a two-point 6 GB more less DVD with excellent quality.

My Specs if anyone is going to upgrade their PC.

ASRock B450M mobo
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU
32gb Crucial Ballistic DDR4 Ram
Crucial 500gb NVme SSD
POWERSPEC Midtower

I'm getting 18 mins. or less with DVD-RB Pro.
1200fps with DVDFab Converter and their default settings for MKV etc...
AVStoDVD also about 18mins.

There might be a hole in the Cinavia protection when ripping to mp4 etc... I'm not 100% sure but it seems like it just kicks in when copying to DVD.
If you have a Blu-ray drive some are copying ultra hd straight to the drive also. They got hip to it with one of the LG drives.
This is the time to rack up with the DVDs as they're not paying attention to them anymore like they used to. so I went back and got some old downloads from the old Goodies which we all know without naming them which I just name one DVD shrink and the other software that came before image burn and the other one that's associated with those two and I'm getting some very very quality clean Rips!

[manolito]

if there's anything that needs to be looked at would be the preview window which as I noticed all you have to do if it doesn't show up the first time is just close it and open it up again and then you will get the picture going.
Are you aware that you can specify to use a different external player for the preview? Go to "Preferences -> Paths" and check out if other players work better for you...

[MrC]

Just uploaded latest 2.8.9 Alpha (https://sourceforge.net/projects/avstodvd/files/avstodvd_alpha_beta/AVStoDVD%202.8.9%20Alpha%20190616/).

Cumulative 2.8.9 change log:

- Some bugs fixed
- Added support to PGS BluRay subtitles
- Added handling and display of MediaInfo BitDepth video tag
- Added support to 8 channels audio source (Downmix.avsi script file updated)
- Improved Muxing routine: better errors handling and switch to FFmpeg (instead of Mplex) when no audio source is present
- Improved usage of FFMS2: now YV12 colorspace is always specified (A2DSource external AviSynth function updated as well)
- Improved AviSynth program info retrieving routine (now using AVSMeter)
- LAV Filters updated to release 0.74.1
- AVSMeter updated to 2.6.5.1 (2.6.5 modded release to improve reading speed)

;)

Bye

[manolito]

Yes, I am totally happy with this new version... :thanks:

All the small issues I found with the previous Alpha are fixed, as far as I am concerned this is a release candidate.

Thanks again
manolito

[MrC]

Thanks manolito for the feedback. Just to update the Help section and the 2.8.9 final will be released.

;)

Bye

[Mike-uk]

Hi, Great program and nice to see your still working on it :)

a few Qs

ive tried to search the internet for my answers but not getting what im after

my source files are 1080p clear clean and sharp as youd expect from modern 1080p source :)

so ive set all the normal setting in avstodvd to max

but there is the avisynth settings

video and audio filter, and upsize and downsize
would changing any of thouse to a different one make the resulting dvd better ?? im after producing the best quality dvd i can

also source files are 23.9 fps im converting to pal so is pal speedup still the best method for reducing panning jerking on dvd playback ?

thanks

Mike

[MrC]

Hi Mike-uk,

first of all thanks for the kind words.

Quality wise, you can start by leaving the default options and judge with your eyes the result. If HCenc VBR 2pass is not auto selected, you can force it in Edit Title > Video > Video Encoder. Then you can play with HCenc Advanced Options.

There are no magic rules to obtain the best result: the "best" depends on the type of video input and your subjective evaluation of the output.

I agree that PAL Speedup is the optimal choice for NTSC-film to PAL conversions.

There is also the possibility to use the ff_vbr plugin by manolito, which brings FFmpeg to its max quality level. I would leave manolito to jump in and to explain how it works.

;)

Bye

[Mike-uk]

ok thanks for the reply, i will try some of those options

[manolito]

Sorry for the late reply, I am just back from my annual motorcycle trip... :cool:
Austrian and Swiss mountains this time, very nice driving, a little bit too hot for my taste.


The AviSynth source filters do not really have an influence on quality, it's more like some work better on specific source formats than others. The default "A2DSource" is not a source filter by itself, instead it tries several source filters until it finds one which does not issue an error message. It tries the filters in this order: AVISource, DSS2Mod, FFMpegSource, DirectShowSource. Mostly you will end up with DSS2Mod which works very well with most sources.

The different resizers are really a matter of personal taste. Some resizers are sharper than others, often with the downside that they introduce ringing artifacts. My all time favorite is Spline36Resize for upscaling and downscaling, it is very neutral without visible artifacts. BlackmanResize is also a very high quality resizer.

For NTSC-film to PAL conversions the PAL-Speedup method is the most widely used method. It does not introduce judder, but for audio with musical content some folks will notice the audio speedup due to the higher pitch. If you want to speed up audio, but keep the original pitch you can do that by editing the AVS script to use the AviSynth TimeStretch function. But this has a tendency to create audible artifacts, you may want to use external commercial timestretch software which delivers better quality.

A while ago I found an excellent script at VideoHelp which avoids all these disadvantages. Gavino was involved in creating this script, and this always means that it is state of the art...

Progressive 23.976 NTSC to Progressive 25 PAL.avs:
# Alternative method avoiding speedup or pulldown.
# No audio speed correction required.
# Insert after the resizer.

# -------------------------------------------------------------

Last = Video
f1=ChangeFPS(24)
f2=Trim(0,-1).AssumeFPS(24) + Trim(1,0).ChangeFPS(24)
Film=Merge(f1,f2)
p1=ChangeFPS(Film,25)
p2=Trim(Film,0,-1).AssumeFPS(25) + Trim(Film,1,0).ChangeFPS(25)
Pal=Merge(p1,p2)
Last = PAL.AssumeFPS(25)
Video = Last

#-------------------------------------------------------------

To use this method you select Pal-Speedup in AVStoDVD. Then paste the above script into the AVS script which was created by AVStoDVD just after the resizer command. Finally you need to delete the whole "AssumeFPS" call (but keep the SSRC or ResampleAudio command).


If you have more questions don't be shy to ask...


Good luck
manolito

[Mike-uk]

Thanks manolito

[Mike-uk]

hmm ok so i edited the avisynth script in avstodvd but it goes red ??, also hcenc says it dont understand the script ??

[manolito]

Whenever the AVS script in AVStoDVD is edited, it goes red to signal the user that he no longer uses the automatically generated script. This is perfectly normal.

To understand the HCenc error please post your edited script and also the exact HCenc error message...

[Mike-uk]

ah sorry my bad :P , i wasnt deleting assume fps from audio, all seems ok now