mmebane
27th February 2003, 20:14
First of all, I've been searching these forums during my "waiting period", and haven't found anything. So either help me, or point me to something I missed. Please don't flame me to a crisp. :D
OK, here's my setup:
Athlon XP 2100+
512 MB DDR
Windows XP Pro
Latest builds of:
DVD Decrypter
VirtualDubMod
Koepi's XviD
I'm pretty comfortable with XviD encoding in general, having encoded several game movies I've captured using Fraps. Well, I decided to move up a notch and try ripping something from a DVD and encoding it. My test piece is the Two Towers preview off of the Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition set (Disc 2, Title 2, Chapter 1, I believe). Ripping with DVD Decrypter was pretty straightforward, and the resulting VOB played fine in BSPlayer.
I open up the VOB in VirtualDubMod. Set aspect ratio to 'free' and use the original resolution. Rip audio to AC3. OK, seems to load fine. Then I try a two-pass XviD encode. The only settings I've changed from the defaults is quants (I've tried both H.263 and New Modulated HQ) and GMC/QPel/Chroma ME, both on and off. I've also tried Fast Recompress and Full Processing.
My problem is that no matter what, my encodes _always_ stop ~20 seconds into the movie, and then start up again a little later.
I don't think it's VDubMod's VOB parsing routines, because I tried opening the VOB through VFAPI, and it did the same thing. I also tried using AVI Synth, but it was encoding at, like, 10 seconds per frame. :P
Any ideas?
EDIT: OK, just read the bug reporting thread. It also does this when I try encoding a clip from the LotR:FotR National Geographic disc.
For decoderonly tried Nic's, I have only tried playing it in BSPlayer. :scared: I'll try Windows Media Player & MPClassic, and using Koepi's decoder this evening.
OK, here's my setup:
Athlon XP 2100+
512 MB DDR
Windows XP Pro
Latest builds of:
DVD Decrypter
VirtualDubMod
Koepi's XviD
I'm pretty comfortable with XviD encoding in general, having encoded several game movies I've captured using Fraps. Well, I decided to move up a notch and try ripping something from a DVD and encoding it. My test piece is the Two Towers preview off of the Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition set (Disc 2, Title 2, Chapter 1, I believe). Ripping with DVD Decrypter was pretty straightforward, and the resulting VOB played fine in BSPlayer.
I open up the VOB in VirtualDubMod. Set aspect ratio to 'free' and use the original resolution. Rip audio to AC3. OK, seems to load fine. Then I try a two-pass XviD encode. The only settings I've changed from the defaults is quants (I've tried both H.263 and New Modulated HQ) and GMC/QPel/Chroma ME, both on and off. I've also tried Fast Recompress and Full Processing.
My problem is that no matter what, my encodes _always_ stop ~20 seconds into the movie, and then start up again a little later.
I don't think it's VDubMod's VOB parsing routines, because I tried opening the VOB through VFAPI, and it did the same thing. I also tried using AVI Synth, but it was encoding at, like, 10 seconds per frame. :P
Any ideas?
EDIT: OK, just read the bug reporting thread. It also does this when I try encoding a clip from the LotR:FotR National Geographic disc.
For decoderonly tried Nic's, I have only tried playing it in BSPlayer. :scared: I'll try Windows Media Player & MPClassic, and using Koepi's decoder this evening.