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delly01
15th March 2002, 01:11
Hello,

I have just tried DVD2SVCD 1.0.7 b4 on the R2-version of Planet of the apes. DVD2SVCD is set to use the german audiostream as the first stream on the SVCD.

The CD has the following audiostreams:
1. English AC3
2. Deutsch SDDS
3. Deutsch AC3
4. English AC3 2ch (directors comments)
5. English AC3 2ch

DVD2SVCD automatically chose the second track and it started ripping just fine; however, it was unable to process the SDDS-stream.

I have manually switched stream 3 to Audio stream 1, and the transcoding of the audiodata is just running at this moment, it seems to work just fine (like every other transcode that I have tried with this fine program).

However, I think that the program should skip streams that it can not decode. Or is the decoding of SDDS generally possible and has just failed because of some oddities in the DVDs coding?

Again, thank you for this fine program. I was at first more geared towards the monolithic DVDx, but DVD2SVCD offers far more options and produces binaries with a better compatibility than DVDx/Nero.

Bye,

Detlev
markrb
15th March 2002, 02:01
DVD2SVCD does not support SDDS streams. It only supports AC3 streams.
It reads the IFO and then you can select the audio stream to use.
It simply outputs what it reads with no masks.
It is simple enough to not select it.
Also if you happen to use an IFO file that had SDDS at the proper position for you other files that you use you could not slect the correct audio stream. This is often used if you loose the original IFO file.

Mark
delly01
15th March 2002, 07:38
Originally posted by markrb
Also if you happen to use an IFO file that had SDDS at the proper position for you other files that you use you could not slect the correct audio stream.
Mark [/B]

I'm sorry, but this sentence does not make any sense to me. I could select the other audio stream. However, DVD2SVCD does already contain a very good mechanism for the automatic selection of the appropriate stream, and I do not believe that it would be a problem to include a matching for the supported streamtypes into this algorhithm.

Bye,

Detlev