JoeB
22nd May 2002, 02:28
Before everyone jumps and chews my head off, I want you folks to know that I looked all over the board, ran many many tests, and always the same thing comes up. So here is a COMPLETE explaination of what happens, so all of you can test it.. and maybe confirm it. At the end of this, I write my work-around that now seems to work.
VIDEO SOURCE:
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- NTSC DVD video source - Star Trek TNG series DVD 1 of Season 1.
DVD RIP PROCEDURE:
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- My DVD drive is a pain in the a$$, so I actually installed DVD2SVCD (same version) on another machine, and use it to RIP only the video chapter via "Use Internal Routine".
- Each DVD has 4 episodes, I find 1 episode per SVCD (~46 minutes) As such, when I rip, I rip 1 title at a time, and convert it 1 at a time seperatly.
- Once the IFO & VOB files are ripped for a certain title, their are FTP'ed over the local LAN to my main machine for the processing.
DVD -> SVCD convert procedure:
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- The file is loaded is DVD2SVCD (the IFO file)
- the correct title is chose
- GO -> Start conversion is done
- Please see attached dvd2svcd_log.txt for the log file that comes out.
PROBLEM:
========
the good:
- SVCD plays perfectly fine in my Pioneer DV-444/343 as well as WinDVD and PowerDVD
- Fast forward/rewind/next chapter/previous chapter/chapter number work perfectly fine
The bad:
- The chapters are not the correct chapters!!!
- When I compare the chapters between the SVCD and the DVD, the SVCD is always missing 1 chapter and the times are wrong.
application used / settings:
- VCDXBuild with PBC Use selection enabled
HOW TO CORRECT:
===============
- Load the IFO file in ChapterXtractor
- Select the correct title
- Tell it to show only with %f, FPS rate = 29970
- Start up TSCV
- Under MENU add the bbmpeg_muxed_file00.mpg file
- double click on it and the chapters tab opens
- Click on plugins and then ChapterXtractor Chapter import
- copy/Paste the %f data from ChapterXtractor. Make sure the plugin
knows FPS is NTSC and tell it to import into TSCV
- click on XML tab in TSCV
- Select new "entry id" times and paste them info VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml
- Notice how the titles are structured, and add the missing title
and section to the rest.
- Open dvd2svcd_log.txt, copy the VCDXBuild line and paste it into a new DOS prompt.
- A new BIN/CUE file is created with the correct times and it works now just like the DVD!
SO?? Anyone else noticed this??
P.S. I'm using DVD2SVCD 1.0.9 build 2 on both systems
JoeB
VIDEO SOURCE:
=============
- NTSC DVD video source - Star Trek TNG series DVD 1 of Season 1.
DVD RIP PROCEDURE:
==================
- My DVD drive is a pain in the a$$, so I actually installed DVD2SVCD (same version) on another machine, and use it to RIP only the video chapter via "Use Internal Routine".
- Each DVD has 4 episodes, I find 1 episode per SVCD (~46 minutes) As such, when I rip, I rip 1 title at a time, and convert it 1 at a time seperatly.
- Once the IFO & VOB files are ripped for a certain title, their are FTP'ed over the local LAN to my main machine for the processing.
DVD -> SVCD convert procedure:
==============================
- The file is loaded is DVD2SVCD (the IFO file)
- the correct title is chose
- GO -> Start conversion is done
- Please see attached dvd2svcd_log.txt for the log file that comes out.
PROBLEM:
========
the good:
- SVCD plays perfectly fine in my Pioneer DV-444/343 as well as WinDVD and PowerDVD
- Fast forward/rewind/next chapter/previous chapter/chapter number work perfectly fine
The bad:
- The chapters are not the correct chapters!!!
- When I compare the chapters between the SVCD and the DVD, the SVCD is always missing 1 chapter and the times are wrong.
application used / settings:
- VCDXBuild with PBC Use selection enabled
HOW TO CORRECT:
===============
- Load the IFO file in ChapterXtractor
- Select the correct title
- Tell it to show only with %f, FPS rate = 29970
- Start up TSCV
- Under MENU add the bbmpeg_muxed_file00.mpg file
- double click on it and the chapters tab opens
- Click on plugins and then ChapterXtractor Chapter import
- copy/Paste the %f data from ChapterXtractor. Make sure the plugin
knows FPS is NTSC and tell it to import into TSCV
- click on XML tab in TSCV
- Select new "entry id" times and paste them info VCDXBuild_Script_1.xml
- Notice how the titles are structured, and add the missing title
and section to the rest.
- Open dvd2svcd_log.txt, copy the VCDXBuild line and paste it into a new DOS prompt.
- A new BIN/CUE file is created with the correct times and it works now just like the DVD!
SO?? Anyone else noticed this??
P.S. I'm using DVD2SVCD 1.0.9 build 2 on both systems
JoeB