AutoFitCD and D2SCCD Plugin

[r6d2]

Hi RB,

Before anything, thanks for a bunch of useful tools.

I don't know if this topic has appeared already (the search engine does not let you look for too short words as "%d"), but I think it would be great if D2SCCD would allow you to say something like "Please insert disk %d/%n", where n is the number of CDs the movie will fit in...

Just an idea.

Best regards,

[Milehigh]

Hi, r6d2,

Check this out:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=40374&highlight=insert+disk+number

Milehigh

[RB]

@r6d2: unfortunately, that will be not easy to do. Maybe I'll look into it in the future. Sorry.

@Milehigh: that's the old, closed thread. Why are you referring to it?

[r6d2]

Originally posted by Milehigh
Hi, r6d2,

Check this out:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?threadid=40374&highlight=insert+disk+number

Milehigh

Hi Milehigh,

You pointed me to the old thread, I read it throughly and could not find anything similar to my question. Sorry, would you mind being more specific?

(Maybe I did not express myself clearly enough, it is the "%n" part which is my "nice to have").

Regards,

[r6d2]

Originally posted by RB
@r6d2: unfortunately, that will be not easy to do. Maybe I'll look into it in the future. Sorry.

@Milehigh: that's the old, closed thread. Why are you referring to it?
@RB,

Thanks for a prompt response. Well, I thought it could be done. When D2SCCD runs bbMPeg already did its cutting and you could use the CD count from it (I mean, at least counting the bbMPEG_Muxed_File* files).

Thanks anyway for pleasing us with your good work.

Regards,

[doom9_diver]

Hi all together

I got another question: I wanted to encode an avi to SVCD. Everything went all right, but at a certain point the picture got black with an red message saying "AVI Source: failed to decompress frame 41479 (error 100)". I got several proggies to check the avi and i ran it through VDub with no result. The check-programs say that there is no error at all. Using WinMP everything is all right. I noticed that at frame 41479 the picture fades to black and a second later back (so its a "cut" between the next sceen). Could this be the problem?

Thanks a lot

diver

[vascosaavedra]

Your avi has bad frames.
You need to correct them before you convert your avi to svcd.
Take a look at http://screw.wz.cz/avidef/AVIDeFreezer%20Tutorial.htm

[doom9_diver]

Thanks vascosaavedra

I´ll give it a try. Does this method freeze the picture f of this frame or does it really correct it?



diver

[puddy]

I'm caputring CVD video 352x480 with Huffy codec. I'm bringing it
into DVD2SVCD and want to use your plugin to "black-out" the
overscan area without doing any resizing.

The video is already the size I need. I don't want to add a black overscan area and then resize the whole thing down to 352x480 again. I just want to black-out the overscan area.

Basically, I want the end result to look exactly the same as the original except that in the overscan area there will be no wasted, unviewable video, it will just be black. This will save some bitrate but yet preserve the quality of the original video (no resizing would be done at all).

Maybe I just need an avisynth guru to type out 2 lines of code that would do what I need instead of using the plugin?

Keep in mind, this is NTSC interlaced TV captures and I want to keep them interlaced. I grab two kids cartoon tv shows, edit them and end up with about 45 mins of video. With the overscan taken off and optimized with all the great other tools automatically built into DVD2SVCD, I get great results. I burn using Nero's SVCD template and turn off SVCD compatibility.

But up to this point my results just have a black overscan area added with the original video resized down so that when I watch the SVCD I'm actually able to see the old overscan area video on the screen. That is kind of neat, but unnecessary and just recudes the quality of the video because it has been resized just slightly (makes it even more blurry).

Ideas?

Thanks so much everyone!

Puddy

[r6d2]

Originally posted by puddy
I'm caputring CVD video 352x480 with Huffy codec. I'm bringing it
into DVD2SVCD and want to use your plugin to "black-out" the
overscan area without doing any resizing.

The video is already the size I need. I don't want to add a black overscan area and then resize the whole thing down to 352x480 again. I just want to black-out the overscan area.

I don't know if I get exactly what you need, so I will give you 2 answers.

Case A: All 352x480 has useful video you want to keep.

In this case, two points: (1) If the video is the size you need, and you want to retain it all, you will not be able to display it all without resizing, since only about 430 lines are visible on the screen, maybe less. And you have 480 lines in the source. (2) Even if you would manage to find a resolution which would keep all your video, sorta (16+352+16)x(24+480+24) it probably would not keep the aspect ratio.

So, my advice is to resize to 480x480, have FitCD add the overscan (3 if you want to make sure you get it "all" on the screen, 2 to lose a little), and voila.

Select "no cropping" in cropping mode, it will retain all your film pixel 352x480.

If you use a good resizer, you should not loose quality. In this case, since you are increasing, Bicubic or Lanczos would do.

Case B: You just want to keep the visible video, the same as the original TV broadcast.

I guess you can do this with FitCD, but I don't know how. In these cases I use Use Gerti67's script SemiAutoCropandResize, available here:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=55641

See recommended parameters for CVD in the readme. It will blank all you cannot see, keeping the rest the same.

It is worth to note that Avisynth resizers do nothing if source and target dimensions are the same, so don't worry about the resize line in the script. It won't affect quality.

[puddy]

Originally posted by r6d2

1. If the video is the size you need, and you want to retain it all, you will not be able to display it all without resizing, since only about 430 lines are visible on the screen, maybe less. And you have 480 lines in the source.

Thanks for your reply. But I don't think you understand what I want to do. I do not want to retain it all. There is no need to retain it all since I can't see the overscan area.

If I were just watching the show on TV I wouldn't see this overscan video, why would I want to see it when I watch it on my SVCD? I am going to watch the SCVD on a regualar TV, not on a computer monitor.

I just want to black-out the overscan area. I do not want to change the size or retain the original video that was in the overscan area.

Does that make it more clear?

Thank you again for your time in helping my out, I really apprecaite it. :)

NOTE: While I was typing this, r6d2 edited his message and actually managed to figure out what I was trying to say on his own. Thank you. Looks like your "Case B" is the one I need.

Puddy

[RB]

I needed to updated the AutoFitCD plugin to properly support DVD2SVCD 1.2.1 build 1 and newer. Please download new version from link in my signature and reinstall the plugin if you are using DVD2SVCD 1.2.1 build 1 or newer.

[r6d2]

Hi guys,

Does any of you know how the "Compression" indicator is calculated in FitCD? The FitCD readme states that numbers about 36 are top quality and that values above 42 must be avoided. But which is the logic of this?

So far I've found that if you move the target resolution and multiply the target bps/block by the compression index obtained (denominator part), you get a constant value which only depends on the cropping of the source.

Thanks in advance. (Hope not too much off-topic).

[andref4]

Hi RB,

I´ve found a bug in autofitcd 1.5 with pal related material! when I press the next frame button more than one time and than the autofit button, the output source becam ntsc XXXx480 resolution. But see your PM BOX! I wrote youn a message in german because my english is´nt the best.

I´ve encoded 3 avi pal movies an all became shitty 720x480 resolution with 25fps. :mad:
With autofitcd 1.4x andf lower version there is no bug and all is fine. but the older version´s donßt work with dvd2svcd 121b2.

[r6d2]

Originally posted by r6d2
Does any of you know how the "Compression" indicator is calculated in FitCD?
Please don't bother. I figured it out.

I have always thought that it would be great if FitCD had a compression indicator based not only on geometry and time, but also on the compressibility of the material.

Now I know where shh gets his 36 magic number, so I can build on top of that ;)

Best regards,

[andref4]

Originally posted by andref4
Hi RB,

I´ve found a bug in autofitcd 1.5 with pal related material! when I press the next frame button more than one time and than the autofit button, the output source becam ntsc XXXx480 resolution. But see your PM BOX! I wrote youn a message in german because my english is´nt the best.

I´ve encoded 3 avi pal movies an all became shitty 720x480 resolution with 25fps. :mad:
With autofitcd 1.4x andf lower version there is no bug and all is fine. but the older version´s donßt work with dvd2svcd 121b2.

RB,

is there any solution to fix this???

[RB]

Thanks for the report. I'm investigating this and will post a new version ASAP if necessary.

[RB]

I'm unable to replicate this. Anyone else is having this problem?

[Pierre C]

Hello,
Upon hitting Autofitcd in the preview window of avi2svcd, I get the message "Error 193 running Fitcd". I've reinstalled dvd2svcd and autofitcd but without change.
dvd2svcd is 1.2.1 build 3. Both fitcd and autofitcd are the latest.
What's wrong?
Thank you,
/Pierre

[RB]

It means that the FitCD.exe it's trying to run is not a valid Win32 application. On the Frameserver tab, select "AutoFitCD Detect Borders" and find the line starting with "FitCDExePath=". Make sure it points to FitCD.exe.

[Pierre C]

Thanks RB. The path was right.
However, now I've noticed the following things:
- Autofit cd setup doesn't add the 2 sections [AVISYNTH_AutoFitCD
Detect Borders] and [AVISYNTH_FitCD] in the dvd2svcd.ini file but in the avisynth.ini file. Dvd2svcd.ini is edited with this line: Avisynth Setup=AutoFitCD Detect Borders
- The dvd2svcdinipath in the frameserver tab points by default at avisynth.ini. Note that the avisynth.ini (as edited by autofitcd) says: !DVD2SVCDIniPath=C:\Program\DVD utilities\DVD2SVCD\avisynth.ini
- I tried editing the ini files manually, putting the sections back from avisynth.ini into dvd2svcd.ini, with an edited DVD2SVCDIniPath. When I start DVD2SVCD again, the avisynth.ini is again edited as before (only the [AVISYNTH_AutoFitCD Detect Borders] section this time), still pointing at avisynth.ini
- If I erase this section from avisynth.ini, the autofitcd option disappears from the frameservertab. If I keep the section but with an edited path, the option is still there and the dvd2svcdinipath is right.
In any case, the error 193 is still there.

I don't know if all these informations are useful or pertinent. I'm pretty much a beginner, please bare with me :) However, something doesn't seem right. What do you think?
Hope it's the right thread for all this, I don't want clog it with this kind of stuff if it's not the place.

/Pierre

[RB]

Please do not mess with the INI files and sections. It's OK the way it is, although "!DVD2SVCDIniPath=C:\Program\DVD utilities\DVD2SVCD\avisynth.ini" may look confusing to you. It is allright.

So waht does it say for FitCDExePath? Does it point to a valid FitCD.exe file? What OS are you running? Have you installed FitCD at all (get it from http://shh.dvdboard.de/ )?

[Pierre C]

Hi RB,
Okay, I reinstalled again so the ini files are back they were. It's just that several posts earlier in the thread mentionned the dvd2svcd.ini and the readme says that the 2 sections are added to dvd2svcd.ini
Anyway, I use XP home. Fitcd is installed.
The path reads "!FitCDExePath=C:\Program\DVD utilities\FitCD\FitCD.exe" which is the correct path. Note that the .exe file doesn't appear by default when I click the "..." button to check the path. I have to set "all files" for it to appear.
Thank you again for your help.
/Pierre

[RB]

Can you start FitCD.exe manually? Are you by any chance running DVD2SVCD in some Win9x compatibility mode?

[Pierre C]

FitCD runs normally. Used it manually yesterday and the result was perfect. No compatibility mode for DVD2SVCD.
/Pierre

[RB]

Sorry, I'm out of ideas. The error 193 should occur only if FitCDExePath points to, well, not an EXE. What version of AVISynth are you running?

[Pierre C]

I tried both I think. I'm in 2.5 right now but I'll change back to 2.08 to make sure.
Otherwise, I'll just keep on manually :)
Thanks for your help.
/Pierre

[stef_newbee]

trouble using autofitcd
First of all, sorry for my poor english.

I'm using dvd2svcd 1.1.3 and autofitcd 1.5.

I select autofitcd detect borders, and then go to the previex window. Borders are properly selected, so I click the "Autofitcd >>" button.

Then Fitcd is loaded and the parameters of avisynth setup change to "Fitcd" , and the preview windows displays an error: "you need to select the autofitcd detect borders setup first"

What's wrong?
Thank you for your answers.

[ss]

I love autofit CD and D2SCCD plugins but it seems to me that D2SCCD does not work with TMPGEnc. I have tried making XVCD(704x480) and XSVCD(704x480). Instead of inserting chnage CD custom text, it inserts DVD2SVCD hand symbol.

Does anybody know if it is supposed to work with TMPGEnc and also with VCD option.

Thanks in advance.

[r6d2]

Originally posted by ss
Instead of inserting chnage CD custom text, it inserts DVD2SVCD hand symbol.

Does anybody know if it is supposed to work with TMPGEnc and also with VCD option.
I haven't tested it, but AFAIK it should. Are you sure you replaced the VCDXBuild executable with the D2SCCD exe on the CD Image Tab?

Does it work when you do SVCDs? Maybe it is a VCD limitation?

[ss]

I didn't know that I had to replace the exe file in the CD image tab. In the instructions it just says to run the file and select the DVD2SVCD.

Anyway I will try changing the EXE files and see if it works.

[r6d2]

From the readme:

---Configuration---

[ ] Integrate with DVD2SVCD

This needs to be checked for D2SCCD to be called by
DVD2SVCD during the CD image creation process so D2SCCD
can do its work. If you put D2SCCD in the wrong directory
(i.e. not a directory inside the DVD2SVCD folder), this
option will be unavailable.

Checking this option will actually change the 'VCDXBuild'
path on DVD2SVCD's CD Image tab to point at D2SCCD.
D2SCCD does it's work and then in turn calls VCDXBuild to
generate images. As you may guess, this also means that
D2SCCD is only useful if you mark the 'VCDXBuild' radio
button in DVD2SVCD - CD Image tab.
General advice: try reading at least the readmes to the end. :rolleyes:

[ss]

It does not work with TMPGEnc. I just encoded XVCD and still it has DVD2SVCD default change CD picture.

I changed vcdxbuild.exe to D2sccd.exe manually and had the VCDxbuild ticked in CD image tab.

It would be nice if it could work with TMPGEnc.

[ss]

Did some more tests to see why it does not work. It seems to me that if DVD2SVCD is not installed in program files folder then DVD2CCD would not work but if it is installed in program fles folder it works. Not sure why that limitation exists. I also use DVD2KVCD plugin along with autofit CD and DVD2CCD.

[r6d2]

It has worked for me with TMPGEnc. Maybe it is a MPEG-1 limitation? What are you using?

[ss]

I am making KXVCD, yes I am using Mpeg1. I haven't tried Mpeg2 yet. Did your work without having it under program files folder.

[r6d2]

Originally posted by ss
Did your work without having it under program files folder.
Yes.

[jeffnguyen23]

.

[m3taPT]

Originally posted by RB
(get it from http://shh.dvdboard.de/ )?

This URL stopped working a while ago.

Alternative in http://shh.sysh.de/fitcd.html

[_wrathchild_]

Originally posted by Pierre C
Hello,
Upon hitting Autofitcd in the preview window of avi2svcd, I get the message "Error 193 running Fitcd". I've reinstalled dvd2svcd and autofitcd but without change.
dvd2svcd is 1.2.1 build 3. Both fitcd and autofitcd are the latest.
What's wrong?
Thank you,
/Pierre

(Maybe a little late reply but it might help some people out)

I've had the same problem.
Then searched for this error on Google and found some tech forum topic in which someone said: "I also had problems with MySQL 3.x after installing Windows XP Service Pack 2. MySQL would not start as a service on Windows XP. I got the following error: "Error 193: %1 is not a valid Win32 application.". There is a perfect solution at MySQL's Lists Archive page. For some reason, if the path to the MySQL server executable contains spaces, then the registry entry pertaining to this path has to be edited so that it has quotes around it. The strange thing is that I never got this error prior to installing Service Pack 2!"

After I read that I moved FitCD from G:\DVD Software\FitCD_v112 to C:\FitCD , changed the FitCD path in AutoFitCD_25.ini and it worked again.

[Happygolucky]

I had to do a complete system reinstall due to a crashed hard drive. I have the latest DVD2SVCD installed, latest AVISynth, and FitCD and AutoFitCD. Everything is installed in default directories, with AutofitCD installed under the DVD2SVCD folder and FitCD is located in the AutofitCD folder (that's how I had it before). I've checked all the ini files and the paths to everything seem fine.

However, when I have frameserver set to AutofitCD Detect Borders and go to Preview, things look OK until I click the AutofitCD button. It looks like the FitCD portion (resolution is 1280x1024 so FitCD is not a seperate window, though I've run in that mode too and there is no difference in problem) is different than it used to be, plus the movie preview only contains an AVISynth error because the line "DirectShowSource("")" is, as you can see, empty.

DirectShowSource: Could not open as video or audio

Video returned: "DirectShowSource: couldn't open file: An object or name was not found."

(C:\Program Files\DVD2SVCD\TEMP\preview.avs,line 4)

For some reason the line is not getting populated with the filename so nothing is being displayed. The FitCD window is also jumbled around and isn't the same as it was previously. It looks like FitCD itself has been changed and it is a newer version than I had previously, and I can not locate the version I used that had no problem.

Anyone else seeing this? Any ideas on what I can do to fix it?

[onesoul]

You must use fitcd v1.1.2

Get it here (http://pwp.netcabo.pt/onesoul/fitcd_v112.zip)

cheers

[jorel]

excuse me.

why not the last FitCD v1.2.4 form August, 3rd 2004 ?

http://shh.sysh.de

[manolito]

Because it does not work, and RB seems to have no intention to update AutoFitCD (see first post in this thread).

Cheers
manolito

[Happygolucky]

Originally posted by onesoul
You must use fitcd v1.1.2

Get it here (http://pwp.netcabo.pt/onesoul/fitcd_v112.zip)

cheers Thank you!!! That works perfectly.

[gdenehy]

Hi,
I want to always add Undot and Deen to my scripts, but I have to manually add them everytime because AutofitCD erases them during its working. Is there a part in the 'Detect Borders' script that I can add these things to so that it goes into the FitCD script automatically?

Greg

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

I see that the last post here was in 2005 ... so ... I am not expecting an answer, but I will try ...

Q1: The URL to download AutoFitCD 1.5 is not working?

Q2: Is AutoFitCD 1.5 same as FitCD 1.28?

Thanks,
G!:confused:

[Nick]

Yeah. The link is dead. Thanks for the notification. I have mailed the author of the plugin and hopefully we can get that one solved.

As for your second question - AutoFitCD is a plugin to automate the use of FitCD with DVD2SVCD. So if that is what you're trying to do, you need both the AutoFitCD file and FitCD.

Unfortuately AutoFitCD has not been updated for a couple of years and the FitCD version it works with is 1.1.2 - an old version which takes a heck of a lot of finding nowadays.

[gonwk]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for your reply ...

I am actually not very well versed in different programs ... but I am learnign slowly and always willing to experiment more.

I was wondering with the way things are going right now, AVI (XviD, DivX) and so forth ... I wonder if anyone bothers with VCD or SVCD anymore ... or may be they are still useful !?!?!

I was just curious about these programs and I wanted to play around with them and may be I would find some use for them somewhere in my new toy stuff.

I think I came across AutoFitCD ... while I was looking for some "Freeware' to fix my store bought foreign movie ... which I believe it must have been recorded off of satellite and the Audio and Video are out os sync ... and this problem is not constant throughout the movie ... it is slow some places by a little and more somewhere else and then A-OK some other places ... to make a long story short ... I found a program called "DelayCut" by jsoto ... that helped me in one of my steps to fix my video ...

I plan to make a Tutorial of some sort and post it on few of the forums that I asked the Q and noone could help me ... may be someone else be able to use my method which I just made up from reading pages and pages of other people's pointers ... this way there one central location to this fix.

Thanks again,
G!

[jolson]

I plan to make a Tutorial of some sort and post it on few of the forums that I asked the Q and noone could help me ... may be someone else be able to use my method which I just made up from reading pages and pages of other people's pointers ... this way there one central location to this fix.
OK, you'd had half a year now for completing the tutorial... ;)