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BxWrapper
7th September 2002, 06:24
I am interested to see other comments regarding the "Auto DVD Backup" by Johnny owl (www.johnnyowl.com). In my opinion, it is an exellent automation tools, much better than GKnot probably in some aspects.

This tool could give you an autorun CD complete with player (BSPlayer) and you can add subtitle and sound as many you like as matter of cliking the check box. It uses Ogg for sound that gives more bit rate for movie. The bit rate is automatically calculated for the movie. This tool gives you enough tweak setting for advance user but not too many, however. Therefore, it should be easy for regular user.

Once you configure it, it will give you a .BAT file to do those nasty jobs. You can freely edit this batch file if you familiar with all CLI comments. For multiple movies, you can create a new .BAT file by yourself and calls other individual batch files or you can copy and paste all batch files into a single batch file.

The only draw back is that this GUI lack of advance filtering and flexible cropping function compare to GKnot. But it is mpeg2avi inferiority compared to Avisynth, however. Not the tool. There should be a workaround for advance user, if you wish.

I think this tool is deserved a try. And sorry if this has been discussed before (Yes.. I have used that little button and could find any word for this subject).

EDIT:

This is the direct link to the file: http://www.johnnyowl.com/adb/adb13.zip

Forgot to mention, chapters extraction is integrated too.

palesi
12th September 2002, 18:01
Johnny Owl has just released ADB Splitter, a tool to split a work made with ADB in two halves. It is useful for 2 CD backups.

Check out the ADB homepage.

BxWrapper
13th September 2002, 11:23
Palesi,

Great ! Thanks for the info.

You know what? I just made "The Right Stuff" movie few days ago. It was a three hours movie. Couldn't go for 1 CD. Therefore, I had to split it mannually for ogg, avi and the *.ini file. The chapter frame reference for 2nd CD has to be offset manually as well. It was a pain.
Hope the tool does it all automatically. Will check it out when time comes.

palesi
18th September 2002, 14:31
ADB Splitter had a problem with work folders having spaces between words. Audio would not get encoded. Now it has been fixed.

Re-download it at http://www.johnnyowl.com/adb
The new executable file version is 1.0.0.1

Amerzone
24th September 2002, 21:51
I'd like to use this tool/gui, I see it includes the soft I'm using for my own encodings. It even has the Tsunami Parameter Kalkulator to get the correct resize/crop values for m2a... Therefore, it needs PowerDVD for automatic estimation of these values. Now I do this manually with WinDVD4 and I'm using the XGui tool for the rest.

Is there some way to bypass the automatic PK + PowerDVD step? I used to be a fan of Cyberlink, but if I have both WinDVD and PowerDVD installed (WinME), I can't play mpeg2 with WiMP, ZP, BSPlay, etc. :mad: At the same time, the InterVideo ac3 filters sound louder to me, that's why I prefer them over those of Cyberlink...

BxWrapper
29th September 2002, 17:49
@Amerzon

PowerDVD is optional tool to help you resizing the movie automatically. You do not have to use it because you can resize it manually.

First you need to select the aspect ratio from the aspect ratio drop down menu and you will notice the selected setting will be appeared on Parameters. You can do preview and adjust the setting manually to fit your taste (BTW, this is m2a editor). Once you happy, click custom and enter the final value for resize and cropping and you just proceed as normal for other tabs / options.

raymondh
30th September 2002, 17:53
I am using GKnot but would like to try this system to compare. It took me awhile to get GKnot installed and working so I want to make sure I don't mess it up. Has anyone that is using GKnot installed this software? If so, has it caused any problems?

Thanks,

Ray

Amerzone
30th September 2002, 18:37
Thanx to BxWrapper for his answer, meanwhile I figured out this also by myself. I have another "silly" question though: you can't load a vob-list file manually in this gui, or I miss something here? From what I see, you can only rip with SR, but you don't have the option to use an already prepared vob-list...

Amerzone
30th September 2002, 18:44
Originally posted by raymondh
I am using GKnot but would like to try this system to compare. It took me awhile to get GKnot installed and working so I want to make sure I don't mess it up. Has anyone that is using GKnot installed this software? If so, has it caused any problems?
Don't worry, there is no conflict between GKnot and mpeg2avi (m2a, for short). m2a is a command-line encoder originally developed by PX3 and later continued by OGO and Rodriguez (latest version 0.1.6). It seems it is abandoned nowadays, but it is still one of the fastest encoders. One of its main drawbacks, though: it is not working with PAL interlaced sources properly (cannot de-interlace).

raymondh
30th September 2002, 23:19
Will ADB mux the AC3 file to the AVI? I don't want to downmix.

Ray