Feature request: Be able to use the Iauthor muxer with "PS format" checked

[needle]

I assume that
1) For some standalone players the CVD subtitles muxed with I-author muxer works fine, and
2) VCDXBuild is better than Iauthor in order to make the authoring and the images of the SVCDs.

If the previous points are correct, it seems a good idea to use the IAuthor muxer to muxing the CVD subtitles, and then use the muxed file to make the image with VCDXbuild. As it has been stated several times in this forum, this method works fine if the "ps format" option is activated in the Iauthor muxer.

I consider that the implementation of this method in a future version of DVD2SVCD can be useful for some users.

BTW: I am wondering if "Intra DC decision" in the CCE Advanced Settings should be "Intra DC precision"


Best regards,

needle

[ipf123]

Needle,

I have searched this forum but couldn't find any info on how to create the SVCD image using VCDXBuild on the PS file created by I-Auther. Isn't it true that VCDXBuild requires a xml file to create the image?

[dvd2svcd]

PS in I-Authors Muxer makes a standard MPEG2 file which can be used in VCDIMager or a VCDXBuild XML file.

[needle]

@ipf123

Thanks for your interest in my feature request.

In order to apply my method in DVD2SVCD you have to make the images with VCDXbuild (with the option "Don't delete any files" checked in the Misc tab). Then you mux the CCE .mpv file, with the .mp2 audio files and the .txt subtitle files using Iauthor muxer with "PS file" checked. Then you edit the xml file obtained by DVD2SVCD replacing
the name of the file in the line that seems as:

<sequence-item src="D:\Movie\bbMPEG_Muxed_File-subbed00.mpg" id="sequence-00">

by the name of the PS file generated by Iauthor muxer. Then executing VCDXBuild with a commandline similar to:

"C:\Archivos de programa\DVD2SVCD\VCDImager\VCDXBuild.exe" --cue-file="D:\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD1.cue" --bin-file="D:\Movie\CD_Image_File_CD1.bin" "D:\Movie\VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml"
you obtain the cue and bin files.

The described procedure is for the case that the film only requires a single CD. Otherwise, there exist at least two solutions:
First one, is to split the vobs by a entry chapter position in such a way that each part requires only one CD, and then process each part as described before.

Second option, requires to demux each one of the splited mpeg files obtained by DVD2SVCD, and then use Iauthor muxer for each part, and modify the xml files accordingly.

Sorry for my poor english.

Best regards

[ipf123]

The "ps" file created by I-Author has an extension of ps, do I need to rename it to .mpg?

What I have been doing is create the mps file first and let I-Author create the cif image then convert it to cue file.

[needle]

No, it is not necessary to rename the .ps file created by I-Author to .mpg

Best regards