VSfilter and ac3source

[TEB]

Hi this a newb question.
Im transcoding a DVD - > mpeg2 but i need subs perm. encoded.
I cant seem to find the syntax for vsfilter.dll. There are no readme on the sourceforge place and the homepage is down..
Can it read .sub files directly from dvddecryptor? if not what do i do?
How can i input the .ac3 files from the dvd the best possible way in avisynth? Use ac3source? or the new audio support in 2.53? (ive got windvd installed=ac3 decode)

i hope any can help

best regards teb

edit: i think i found it:

v = Mpeg2Source("e:\movie.d2v")
a = DirectShowSource("e:\Temp\Test2\test.ac3")
AudioDub(v,a)

#If they are in idx/sub format then you can just do
#LoadPlugin("path\to\vsfilter.dll")
#VobSub("path\to\subtitle")

[Wilbert]

1) You have to convert the subtitles to ssa and import it with Textsub (from the same vobsub plugin).

2) Don't use AC3source, it downmixes incorrectly.

3) If you want to downmix the ac3, have a look at http://www.avisynth.org/index.php?page=DirectShowSource (Of course, you can also use Besweet for this.)

[TEB]

ok thx..
ac3 works

but how can i convert .sub to .ssa? And i thought vsfilter supported .subs directly ??

My workflow is Dvddecryptor -> .sub -> vobsub(x:\subtiles.sub)
doesnt work it says..

[Yuuhi]

Originally posted by TEB
My workflow is Dvddecryptor -> .sub -> vobsub(x:\subtiles.sub)
doesnt work it says..

I didn't remember all the format supported by VSFilter but use the textsub(sub_path) command to add the subs in your script

[Wilbert]

You need to install vobsub 2.23 (or whatever the latest version is). With one of the components of vobsub you can convert sub to ssa.

[TEB]

The problem is that i added vobsub 2.23 first and i copied the 2.30 vsfilter.dll directly into the avisynth plugin dir, referred to it in the script and so on...
Doesnt like the .sub files that dvddecryptor produces..

[Wilbert]

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=64645

[Prettz]

I might be wrong but I think he wants to use the subs from a DVD and not text-based subs. If that's the case, then what you want to do is use VobSub's configure utility to create a VobSub-compatible .sub and .idx file from the DVD's files, then add this to your script:

LoadPlugin("C:\Program Files\Avisynth 2.5\plugins\vsfilter.dll")
VobSub("C:\Metropolis\subs\vts_01_0.sub")

If this isn't what he meant then excuse me :)

[TEB]

yupp what i meant!
problem is that i cant get vobsub to read any of the stuff dvddecrypter outputs so that i again can convert it to something vsfilter eats...

Anyone that can give me a description on how to do it? workflow?

best teb

[Caspar]

http://www.doom9.org/dvobsub.htm

[Leak]

Originally posted by TEB
Anyone that can give me a description on how to do it? workflow?


Well, I just tell DVD decrypter to demux the audio and video but leave the subtitles in the VOB (via Direct Stream copy), then I rip them from what little remains of the VOB using VobSub's configure dialog (okay, I actually scripted all this, but it works the same way).

np: Stewart Walker - Slowness (Stabiles)

[TEB]

thx, yea i found out i could do this today also... i skipped subripper alltogether and used the configure thingy in vobsub.. it sorta worked for some titles... but but as i was testing later on today,vobsu wouldnt find our language even if it was on the dvd... if found norwegian in the ifo parsing but after u click ok, it was gone, and avisynth never displayed any subs on the screen... so i gave up :)....

best teb

[Prettz]

Originally posted by TEB
thx, yea i found out i could do this today also... i skipped subripper alltogether and used the configure thingy in vobsub.. it sorta worked for some titles... but but as i was testing later on today,vobsu wouldnt find our language even if it was on the dvd... if found norwegian in the ifo parsing but after u click ok, it was gone, and avisynth never displayed any subs on the screen... so i gave up :)....

best teb
Going the subripper route is completely and totally different from using VobSub with a .sub file. Subripper uses OCR to turn the subtitles into a text script, while VobSub simply pastes the subtitle pictures over your video.