SVCD (selfmade) playback with WinDVD creates AviSynth error ?

[JazzMC]

Hello !

I also posted this in the AviSynth forum, but maybe it doesnt even belong there . I dunno . It's so weird ...

I got an interesting one .
Bad for me , but I hope someone can come up with something .

I have gotten some SVCD's from a friend .

I also have WinDVD 4 , which can deal with the stuff .
When I play it from CD .

Now I have this problem :

I usually see my movies from HD , so as not to make life harder
for my drives . I know , it is (at least in parts) , overptrotective
behaviour, but that's me .

When I extract all the folders with content to HD , and it doesnt
matter where I put them , I thought I could play the SVCD's from
HD as well as I can play DVD's from HD .

But no . When I try that, there comes this little error message
in the WinDVD video window :

'' Avisynth : caught an access violation at 0x0a2011c8,
attempting to read from 0xb80adc01 ''

When I only play back the mpeg file, it goes OK, but I cannot
select the languages on the SVCD , it only plays the first one .

What has AviSynth to do with WinDVD and SVCD playback ?
How did any connection to it get into that program ?
I don't get it .

Believe me , I have tried everything I can think of short
of deleting every AviSynth registry item by hand .

Can anyone help me ?

Regards,

Jan .

[Cidici]

it's really strange, but i think that copying all the file to the hd from a svcd is not a good idea.
have u tried to make a cd image on the disc and then mount it with daemon-tools ? it's the best way to play a svcd from the hard disk

[JazzMC]

Hello !

Could you maybe enlarge a bit on that CD image thing with
Daemon Tools ? How much work that is, where I can get the program(s) , if there are guides on that somewhere ...
That would be great !

I know this possibility exists , but have never done it myself .

The thing is : if I have a movie on SVCD , and there are 3 CD's , it would be a bit awkward to see the movie thus : loading the first CD onto a virtual image , seeing it , deleting it (thus stopping playback) , and making the same procedure with the other 2 .

Or is it possible to make 3 virtual images of all 3 CD's and thus being able to see the film almost in one piece (just with some seconds of stop while changing the drive in WinDVD) ?

Regards,

Jan .

[JazzMC]

Let me add something .

As I said, I did almost everything but delete every thing
on the PC (in directories and the registry) that said ' avisynth ' .

Now ... if I really did that , what effects would it have ?
Onto which programs or resources on the PC is avisynth bound to ?
What would change if it isnt there anymore ? Playback quality ?
Playback speed ? Filters used ?

I always thought that Avisynth was an optional filter for people
who want to encode MPEG content (1 or 2) to .avi files .
And not that any player uses it for playback .
That's why I still don't understand how the avisynth ever GOT INTO
WinDVD ...

And another thing .
I had not noticed this before .
When I play an SVCD from my CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drives, all is
OK , but if the disc is finished playing , the same error message
appears as if I would have opened the disc from HD .
It gets stranger and stranger ...

I have, not long ago, maybe 3 or 4 days, installed a codec
pack (DivX Total Pack 1.1) that turned out to be bad stuff, so I deinstalled it .
Some of the stuff (like the Morgan Stream Swicher) did not deinstall
right , so I had to delete it from the registry myself .
As far as I know , Avisynth was not part of that package ...
But if it was ... are there any known registry settings that
bind Avisynth to certain programs ?

Jan .

[Cidici]

Originally posted by JazzMC
Hello !

Could you maybe enlarge a bit on that CD image thing with
Daemon Tools ? How much work that is, where I can get the program(s) , if there are guides on that somewhere ...
That would be great !

Or is it possible to make 3 virtual images of all 3 CD's and thus being able to see the film almost in one piece (just with some seconds of stop while changing the drive in WinDVD) ?

Regards,

Jan .

www.daemon-tools.com is the place for the software.
u can emulate up to 4 virtual cds with it.
u can create the image with disc juggler, cdrwin, blindread or another software (it supports cue/bin, bwi, iso etc..check on the daemon tools page)

[Labersack]

You can use IsoBuster to extract just the MPEG-file from your SVCD to harddisk. After this you can play this with e.g. WinDVD in 'filemode'.
Just copying the files from SVCD to HD won't work in most cases.
If you want to play the Movie in one piece you can use TMPGEnc to merge the MPEGs to one huge file.

[JazzMC]

er ...

I can play the file (the avseq01mpeg, from the SVCD , meaning with additional info ; I know that that is not just the MPEG-2 file but a little more) file OK .
That was not the problem .

The problem is that I cannot select the language I want to hear .

If I use that IsoBuster method, can I then do that ?

And in the case that you have your nick from the language that is your home tongue :

wäre es möglich, mir vielleicht noch ein bisschen mehr zu erklären ?
Per email oder so ... ich würde das Ganze wirklich gerne zum Funktionieren bringen , und anscheinend kann das Avisynch problem sowieso nicht gelöst werden , vielleicht liegt es ja auch nicht da dran .

Regards,

Jan .

[Labersack]

Please don't write german. I can understand it, but it's not very polite because many other users can't. If you can't put your problem in english words, you can send me a PM, but it would be better to discuss this here in public, so others can also take part in the discussion.
If your software-player can change the audio-language from SVCD, than there is an easy solution for your problem. Make an Image from your CD and dont copy the files with explorer. Use your burning prg to do this. WinCDR for example make 1 .bin and 1 .cue from your CD. Use DaemonTools to mount this image to a virtual drive and play this virtual disc with your software-player.

[JazzMC]

Hello !

I am fully well capable of fritting mie kwestshiuns in Inglish .

I respect the other users that probably may not be able to read German , but I just wanted to take the chance of making email contact with you if you were an expert in this stuff AND German .

But never mind .

I got Deamon Tools , and I know how to use it .
The thing is : that takes rather long , and if I have to do that for a movie with 3 CD's, I easily spend 20 minutes just with preparation .

I am grateful for having a workable option, now, though .

But what still remains a mystery is the Avisynth issue .

How can that filter get into the WinDVD routines ?
If somebody know how that is possible, then he/she could probably also tell me how to undo that again .
I do not want to make a whole new installation of my system just because I cannot change the language when I copy an SVCD to my HD ...

Regards,

Jan .

[Labersack]

Sorry if my last post sounds to rude. You can of course email to me, but that's not the spirit of this board, because if we solve problems on our own, no other can get any use of it.
I don't understand why it costs more time to make the cue/bin than to copy the MPEG-stream, this should be nearly the same time.
But you can leave your bin/cue on your HDD after DVD2SVCD is finished, so you can mount them directly to DeamonTools without the need to copy them.
With your avisynth porblem I'm clueless, sorry.

[Jason28]

I have never heard of anything like this. When you try to open the file with WinDVD does WinDVD open at all or do you just get the error? Have you tried to reinstall WinDVD? What if you remove Avisynth from your comp?

[JazzMC]

Hello !

I don't have a deinstaller for AviSynth .

I would have to delete all files and registry items by hand ,
and I don't know if I can do that without destroying my OS .

Reinstalling WinDVD ... I'll try that . It seems very obvious, now .

Anyway ... that error only comes up when I copy a SVCD to HD (all of it) , and the player tries to open the HD drive E:\ f.e. to see that SVCD . It also happens when I open only the .mpeg file of a SVCD .

It has also happened, but doesnt always, when a normal SVCD plaiyng via a normal CD drive is finished (it doesnt show the Please Change Disc symbol but that error) .

Maybe you can think of anything that may help .

Jan .

[JazzMC]

No , reinstalling WinDVD didn't help .

AviSynth is still somehow in the playback routine .

I Don't Get It !

How can it ever GET into there ?

The only thing that I could think of, and this is really far-fetched is : GordianKnot uses the thing for making avi files out of mpeg2 files . Maybe, somehow, this registry setting (it has to be one , else the reinstall would have solved the problem) affects mpeg2 playbck content for WinDVD , but only when the stuff is on HD .

I dunno ...

I can play vob files from HD with WinDVD .
It seems as if it was only the SVCD stuff .
Even if it is cleaned of the extra stuff (that is put into the mpeg2 stream when it is made to the SVCD .mpg stream) .

Jan .

[Jason28]

As far as I know you shouldnt have any dealings with Avisynth and WinDVD. I think that only thing that you are going to be able to do is reinstall windows. :(