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zacka
15th June 2003, 15:57
I've earlier used ver. 0.27 of GK to backup my DVDs. It's been workin allright. After uninstalling 0.27 and installing 0.28 instead with the codec-pack and the latest updates (0.28.4) I've experienced an annoying problem. After encoding, the movie has an incredible low soundlevel. I've followed the guide correctly, and compared many of the settings to what in 0.27. I cannot find the problemsource.

My solution after many-many encodings with low soundlevel could be to reinstall 0.27 since it works, but I really want to get the 0.28 working since I've heard that 0.28 is much more faster.

Yes, I am a so called "newbie" so I don't really know much about how everything works in this program and about backup of DVDs in general, so I really hope someone more experienced can help me. Is it also possible to import a setting-profile (*.gks-file) from anyone of you that might help me? I might have missed something I really can't figure out... :(
ammck55
15th June 2003, 17:01
Welcome to the forum!

Here's a link (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=43761&highlight=low+volume/url) to a thread from the Gordian Knot forum in which this problem was discussed. If this doesn't fix your specific problem, run a search over there and see what you come up with. Good luck!

ammck55
zacka
15th June 2003, 17:07
Thanks for fast reply. You don't know how long I've try to solve this....

I'll let you guys know if anything of that solves it ;)
zacka
23rd June 2003, 15:01
I've now tried several of the solutions described from the link ammck55 referred to without any help. I've played the file from the dvd2avi project in Win Media Player, and the soundlevel is still very low. Is it any settings in DVDDecrypter or DVD2AVI I've forgotten to configure ? Any ideas anyone ?

(My english is still not very good, I hope I've described it good enough.)
killingspree
23rd June 2003, 15:28
:logfile:
zacka
23rd June 2003, 15:33
This is the logfile after ripping in DVDDecrypter :


0x20 - Subtitle - English / Normal Captions / LBA: 18102 / PTS: 00:00:44.967 / Delay: 44680ms
0x21 - Subtitle - English / Normal Closed Captions / LBA: 18104 / PTS: 00:00:44.967 / Delay: 44680ms
0x22 - Subtitle - Svenska / Normal Captions / LBA: 18468 / PTS: 00:00:45.967 / Delay: 45680ms
0x23 - Subtitle - Norsk / Normal Captions / LBA: 18470 / PTS: 00:00:45.967 / Delay: 45680ms
0x24 - Subtitle - Dansk / Normal Captions / LBA: 18472 / PTS: 00:00:45.967 / Delay: 45680ms
0x25 - Subtitle - Suomi / Normal Captions / LBA: 18474 / PTS: 00:00:45.967 / Delay: 45680ms
0x26 - Subtitle - Islenska (Icelandic) / Normal Captions / LBA: 18524 / PTS: 00:00:46.167 / Delay: 45880ms
0x27 - Subtitle - Nederlands / Normal Captions / LBA: 19978 / PTS: 00:00:50.087 / Delay: 49800ms
0x28 - Subtitle - Czech(Ceske) / Normal Captions / LBA: 3687 / PTS: 00:00:11.647 / Delay: 11360ms
0x29 - Subtitle - Magyar / Normal Captions / LBA: 13322 / PTS: 00:00:32.767 / Delay: 32480ms
0x2A - Subtitle - Russian / Normal Captions / LBA: 18556 / PTS: 00:00:46.287 / Delay: 46000ms
0x2B - Subtitle - Estonian / Normal Captions / LBA: 13190 / PTS: 00:00:32.527 / Delay: 32240ms
0x80 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / English / LBA: 10 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: 0ms
0x81 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / Czech(Ceske) / LBA: 11 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: 0ms
0x82 - Audio - AC3 / 6ch / 48kHz / DRC / Magyar / LBA: 12 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: 0ms
0xE0 - Video - MPEG-2 / 720x576 (PAL) / 16:9 / Letterboxed / LBA: 1 / PTS: 00:00:00.287 / Delay: 0ms
killingspree
23rd June 2003, 16:32
sorry, i was talking about the gknot logfile, that one doesn't really help :)
zacka
23rd June 2003, 17:58
There you go ;)



12.06.2003 07:43:58: Job "zacka" started.

o DivX5-Single, Quality 20 : D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Credits.avs
o DivX5-First Pass: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs
o DivX5 - Pass 2: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs
o Append Credits and Mux Audio.
o Delete Intermediate Files.
o Splitting final movie.
End of Job 1 (zacka).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Gordian Knot -
Encoding Job Data:

Type: EncD5_All_CreditsSep
Number: 1
Name: zacka
Platform: WinXP (5.1.2600).2

Files (
VirtualDubModExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\VirtualDubMod.exe
NandubExe: C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\nandub\Nandub.exe
AviFinal: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avi
AviMovie: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Movie.avi
AviCredits: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Credits.avi
MovieFS: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs
CreditsFS: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Credits.avs
Log : D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.log
Stats: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.stats
Ecf : D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.ecf

Options:
Quality/DRF: 20
CreditsStart: 122178
UseEcf: 1
CreditsIVTC: 0
CreditsAppend: 1
DeleteInterm.: 1
EnforceBitrate: 0
AntiShit: 0
Split final file at CD size:700

Calculator:
VideoSize: 408871 kbyte.
Audio1Size: 297918 kbyte.
Audio2Size: 0 kbyte.
Overhead: 10010 kbyte.
AviSize: 716800 kbyte (700 mbyte).
FilesSize: 0 kbyte.
TotalSize: 716800 kbyte (700 mbyte).
Interleaving: vbrmp3
Bitrate 527 k(=1000)Bits/s
Frames: 158888
FPS: 25.000
Duration: 145:56
Quality: 0.121 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck3 0.000 bits/(pixel*frame).
CompCheck5 0.444 bits/(pixel*frame).
Resolution: 640 x 272

Audio 1:
mode: Just Mux Source File.
sourceFile: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\dvd2avi\8 Mile AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3
wavFile: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\dvd2avi\8 Mile AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms.wav
mp3File: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\dvd2avi\8 Mile AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms.mp3
azid:
lame:
delay: 0
interval: 1
preload: 500
mux: 1
recalc: 1
deleteWav: 1

Audio 2:
none.

07:43:58: Audio 1, determined: 297918 kb
07:43:58: Audio 1, calc: 297918 kb
07:43:58: New Bitrate for Movie = 527 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX5 Single Pass"
// $input "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Credits.avs"
// $output "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Credits.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile_Credits.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile_Credits.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

07:43:58: Started DivX5-Single, Quality 20: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Credits.avs
07:56:01: Finished DivX5-Single, Quality 20: Duration: 12 minutes, 2 seconds.
07:56:01: Assumed: Main Movie has 122178 Frames.
07:56:01: Assumed: Credits Part has 36710 Frames.
07:56:01: Credits Size = 34164 Kb
07:56:01: New Bitrate for Movie = 628 k(=1000)Bits/s

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX5-First Pass"
// $input "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs"
// $output "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

07:56:01: Started DivX5-First Pass: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs
08:56:32: Finished DivX5-First Pass: Duration: 1 hour, 0 minutes, 31 seconds.
08:56:32: Trying to open Log-file.
08:56:32: Success: Log-file open.
08:56:32: Encoded: 122178 Frames.
08:56:32: Speed: 33.644 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX5-Second Pass"
// $input "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs"
// $output "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Movie.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile.avs",0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(1);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression(0x78766964,0,10000,0);
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile_Movie.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

08:56:32: Started DivX5 - Pass: 2: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avs
09:51:32: Finished DivX5 - Pass: 2: Duration: 54 minutes, 59 seconds.
09:51:32: Speed: 37.025 Frames per Second.

Adding this script to C:\PROGRA~1\GORDIA~1\VirtualDubMod\LastJob.vcf :

// $job "DivX5 Append"
// $input "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Movie.avi"
// $output "D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avi"
// $state 0
// $start_time 0 0
// $end_time 0 0
// $script

VirtualDub.Open("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile_Movie.avi",0,0);
VirtualDub.Append("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile_Credits.avi");
VirtualDub.RemoveInputStreams();
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetSource("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\dvd2avi\\8 Mile AC3 T01 3_2ch 384Kbps DELAY 0ms.ac3",0x00000203,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetInterleave(1,500,1,0,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetClipMode(1,1);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetConversion(0,0,0,0,0);
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetVolume();
VirtualDub.stream[0].SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.SetDepth(24,24);
VirtualDub.video.SetMode(0);
VirtualDub.video.SetFrameRate(0,1);
VirtualDub.video.SetIVTC(0,0,-1,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetRange(0,0);
VirtualDub.video.SetCompression();
VirtualDub.video.filters.Clear();
VirtualDub.subset.Delete();
VirtualDub.SaveAVI("D:\\DVDz\\8 Mile\\encode\\8 Mile.avi");
VirtualDub.Close();

// $endjob
//
//--------------------------------------------------
// $done

09:51:32: Started Appending Credits and Muxing Audio.: D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile_Movie.avi
09:54:45: Finished Appending Credits and Muxing Audio.: Duration: 3 minutes, 13 seconds.
09:54:45: Deleting Intermediate Files.
09:54:46: Total File Size is: 696 Mb
09:54:46: No splitting required

09:54:46: Done.
09:54:46: Movie = D:\DVDz\8 Mile\encode\8 Mile.avi
Total Encoding Time: 2 hours, 10 minutes, 47 seconds.
12.06.2003 09:54:46: Job "zacka" finished.
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killingspree
23rd June 2003, 18:28
well, i'd say it has nothing to do with your audio, but rather with the ac3 filter. if you haven't installed ac3filter (http://www.doom9.org/Soft21/Filters/ac3filter_0_68b.exe) with gknot, do it now, otherwise you might check if it is activated and in use! In the filter properties (accessible either trough the start menu or through bsplayer if it is used to play an ac3 file) you can increase the playback volume significantly most of the time!

hope this helps
steVe