ReJig 0.5 Released

[Superduck]

When trying to encode Band of Brothers disc 6 it only encodes the main title and not all the other small ones. This size is also only 3.1 GB instead of 4.3. This was just the one-click I tried. Do I have to use the IFO mode to get this right or is it a known bug?

[dvdnew]

I want to create a DVD with 2 audio tracks. I import the first track, select English and audio delay of -1605, then I import the second track, select Spanish and audio delay of -1389. I clic in first track it change the language to English but the audio delay stay at -1389, so I changed that back to -1605, clic in second audio, it shows as Spanish but the delay now show -1605.

The audio delay must be the same to create a DVD with 2 audio tracks with ReJig0.5e, or is just a bug that will get fixed in the next release?

Thanks.

[dragongodz]

Rombaldi - Nic is really busy at work at the moment and want to test a few things before releasing the next version. dont worry it shouldnt be long. :)

dvdnew - yes this sounds like a bug. you could of course correct the ac3 streams to both have 0 delay and then that shouldnt be a problem.

Superduck - what exactly did you do ? some more detail would probably help.

sorry i cant be of more help guys but i have mostly just done tweaks etc to the engines and suggestions for other stuff.

[Superduck]

Well I started Rejig 0.5E and then there was this menu. Ok, I then selected the rip dvd I'm not really sure what it's called. It's the one in the top left corner. Then I select that it should try to fit it to 4.3 and it starts ripping, doing first the video, then audio, then mixing it and lastly creating a dvd iso for me. But the file size is only 3.1G and the main chapter was the only thing ripped.

[djan]

Originally posted by Superduck
Well I started Rejig 0.5E and then there was this menu. Ok, I then selected the rip dvd I'm not really sure what it's called. It's the one in the top left corner. Then I select that it should try to fit it to 4.3 and it starts ripping, doing first the video, then audio, then mixing it and lastly creating a dvd iso for me. But the file size is only 3.1G and the main chapter was the only thing ripped.

ReJig is Movie Only !

[E-Male]

and "movie only" means no use for series or any other kind of DVDs with more then one "main"-part

[djan]

Also with IFO Mode ?

[E-Male]

ifo mode is just ripping, demuxing and transcoding
not authoring

[dvdnew]

Originally posted by dragongodz
dvdnew - yes this sounds like a bug. you could of course correct the ac3 streams to both have 0 delay and then that shouldnt be a problem.
I'm new with this, any tool that can help me correct the ac3 stream?

Thanks.

[E-Male]

my good old friend Google told me to try this:
http://home.t-online.de/home/520072193568-0001/

[dragongodz]

Rejig in the file mode has this for demuxing. that is it can correct the delay in the ac3 when you demux it from the mpeg/vob. this would have to be 1 large mpeg/vob and not split of course. i dont know how adding all the split ones would go, that may work but i have not tried it.

its based on a program called ac3 delay corrector(from memory) which is also a seperate program. a bit of searching and it shouldnt be hard to find. :)

[dragongodz]

hahaha E-Male we were typing at the same time. :)

lets all please not forget that Rejig is just at version 0.5 so dont expect it to do everything yet. :D

[robot1]

Ac3 delay corrector:

http://farmi007.bei.t-online.de

[robot1]

Sorry... I was late!

[E-Male]

at least we all agree :)

[djan]

Originally posted by E-Male
ifo mode is just ripping, demuxing and transcoding
not authoring

Ok, but you can choose the VTS to Encode, so it's not a problem for multi main movies.

And Ifo Mode doesn't make auto Authoring ?

[E-Male]

it has an option to also author (which i never used)
but i think what you want is to put multiple episodes on one dvdr, and rejig alone won't do that for you (anybody correct me if i'm wrong)

[djan]

Oh yes, it's right because you have to encode each vts separately but you can then re-author them and put them in the same vts.

[dvdnew]

Originally posted by robot1
Ac3 delay corrector:

http://farmi007.bei.t-online.de Thanks, it works great, now I can get around the Audio Delay bug in ReJig 0.5e.

ReJig team: How about to include an option to only create a single VOB? This way I can import the VOB into other tool to create the menu and the final DVD. I think ReJig creates a single VOB then break that in 1GB VOBs and create IFOs and BUPs, so this option will not be hard to implement.

Thanks for this great tool.

[Mango Madness]

i wonder if you could steal some dvd decrytor code to add burning support so that this program could do it all. Just my evil plans.

[Nic]

@dvdnew: Yup that sounds like a bug, ill fix that soon. Ammon82 has already asked me have a feature that just creates the Vob, so it can be used with other apps, so ill add that too.

@Mango: I can't use DVDDecrypter code, but I could make a .ISO and use DVDDecrypter to burn (But I think for the minute, thats dangerous as the bugs might mean you burn Movies with problems automatically without checking...)

Vapor very kindly bought and sent two NTSC DVDs to me, so ill be testing them tonight, and then release a new version soon (which will also contain Makira's latest engine...)

-Nic

[Makira]

Originally posted by Nic
[...] and then release a new version soon (which will also contain Makira's latest engine...)

I'll post a bug fix very soon, that was found a few hours ago, so if you can wait till then..

[TCmullet]

Yes, I'm sure many of us are eager for 0.5f, but MUCH better to wait a little longer and have the engine as bug-free as possible. I hope this feeling is universal. :)

[djan]

The engine of Makira is just the new one no ? So why not the release a new version keeping the old one and then release another one when the one of Makira is ready.

[TCmullet]

Here's why: Don't release software with known serious bugs. Fix bugs, then release. There are always enough unknown bugs to cause many releases later anyway. This should apply to all software. If Makira says there's a bug, then Nic ought to hold off for a bit. I'd rather wait a tiny bit longer than proceed to damage my valuable projects by committing to use a KNOWN broken engine.

[Makira]

It's not just a small bug affecting the quality, it's a hard bug making the whole thing crash completly. The kind of bug you don't want to release unless you happen to like having to answer incessant support requests (...grmbls...)

It is currently fixed, just testing a little more and it'll be posted in the next 24 hours (either this evening or tomorrow's afternoon, depending how much sleepy I'll be).

[Nic]

Thanks for keeping us informed Makira :) . I've been mainly working on the code for 0.6 which will do the transcoding in the vob and then write out to vob, skipping all the muxing and submuxing, etc etc. (hence the delays...)

-Nic

[RB]

That's great news, Nic! Does this mean ReJig 0.6 could be used to shrink DVD menu VOBs (VTS_XX_0.VOB) on the fly?

[Nic]

@RB: My knowledge of Menu Vobs is almost nothing. But my assumption is they have a 0xe0 stream like any other VOB and that can recompressed in the same way. I hope it will work. We'll have to see. got to get my PES writing correct (and the SCR values) first ;)

-Nic

ps
The delay has been really, ive had to write my own DeCSS class, my own demuxing, etc etc all again from scratch for speed.

[djan]

Keep Running Nic, you're the best. :)

[JvD]

Oh man, been away for some weeks now, havent even been close to doom9 :eek: soooo I hade a lot to catch up concerning ReJig. I am reaaally impressed. At the moment (after testing the existing builds) I am eager to try that new version with Makiras new engine. Also RBs question put Rejig in a new light, will this be possible? EXCITING! Great work Nic!

[Makira]

updated:
http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/M2VRequantiser_150104.tgz

[dvdnew]

Originally posted by Nic
@dvdnew: Yup that sounds like a bug, ill fix that soon. Ammon82 has already asked me have a feature that just creates the Vob, so it can be used with other apps, so ill add that too.

-Nic Thank you, this is a great tool.

[djan]

Just waiting Nic now for a new version :)

[Nic]

(Just to let you know, (because I've been so quiet), I have a commandline app now that goes from VOB->VOB with no demuxing and uses the "Old Engine" to do compression...Very Quick ;) ). So once I've got some bugs out of 0.5, 0.6 shouldn't be too far away (and ReJig will finally be able to compete slightly on the movie only backups...

...Then I can begin on full dvd backup for 0.7, but that's getting ahead of myself)

-Nic

[ffroms]

Whoa!! This sounds so good. Now I only wish to send my self in future to test new ReJig 1.0 :D . I think we going to have DVDShrink substitute and even better.

FFS

[duartix]

Jolly great work Nic. :)

I just hope the community doesn't forget you or Shrink as soon as the dual layer recorders hit the market.

I surely, won't!

[djan]

Originally posted by ffroms
I think we going to have DVDShrink substitute and even better.
FFS
Sure, it's already better concerning the quality. This prog is amazing !!!

[TEB]

Hi, Nic/Makira i sorta asked this before a long time ago, but ill try again.. is it possible to make the program confine to a spesific max bandwith? Like transrate the videostream down from eg. VBR 2-9mbit down to 2-4mbit: like force the peaks to never go over a given max bitrate?

keep up the fantastic work guys!!

teb

[Makira]

everything's possible, but some things takes more time than others. Anyway, why would you want to do that ?


btw nic, I've just found another bad bug in the last engine I posted, I'll post an update as soon as I've tested everything is ok. It's just a one word change.

[Rombaldi]

@Makira

I posed this some time back, but after seeing your answer on it it's possible to strip the color I'll re-ask it.

Is it possible to adjust the black level during a transcoding? Add/Subtract 'x' amount? Reason I ask is that I have a pot full of MPEG2 streams that were recorded on a Panasonic DMR-E20 recorder that (on the E20's... changed later) had the black level set to the Japan standard and for US video are 7.5 IRE too high. The E20 (and others) will compensate for it on playback, but most decks won't, giving a washed out appearance unless you back down the brightness. The prospect of re-rncoding (and in most cases, going a generation down) all that dosen't thrill me.

[TEB]

Well i need it for a Broadband project where our max. bandwith is around 5mbit netto.. The peaks can never go over that for a long time period since its over UDP.

[Nic]

Thanks for the info Makira, please post the update when you can :)

(Coding for the new DVDBackup mode is going well, it is fast, but looks like im going to have to write my own IFO parsing...grrrr)

-Nic

ps
Ahhh, Worked out how you do IFO parsing, now just got to implement it ;)

[Makira]

@nic: http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/M2VRequantiser_200104.tgz
@teb: I see. iirc, videolan is using the requantiser for the same purpose, so maybe they implemented something like this, I haven't checked what they did with m2vrequant.
@rombaldi: stripping color is easy for 99% of the blocks, for the other 1%, it would mean some tedious work.. about changing brightness, it should be fairly easy, I'll even test it right now!

[Rombaldi]

@Makira

If you can pull that off, several thousand Panasonic owners will be at your feet! I've got enough files to test with so LMK!!!

@Nic

sure you don't want to make the engine a DLL for quick changes :D :D

[Makira]

@rombaldi: well, it's done! btw I accept donations! (see my homepage (http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/), which needs updating, for a paypal link) :D

here's the code: http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/M2VRequantiser_200104_cb.tgz

for normal usage it is better to turn it off, since changing brightness forces you to recompress every slice, even though sometime you'd be better off copying the original.

Anyway it works :)

[Amnon82]

Yup that sounds like a bug, ill fix that soon. Ammon82 has already asked me have a feature that just creates the Vob, so it can be used with other apps, so ill add that too.

THX nic! I can't wait for the next version!

... K it was a little long time I looked into Your thread nic. I translated QCCE into german, but this is another story.

I'm looking forward. Creating a big nonsplitted VOB-file is usefull for DVDlab. So we can easier creating (motion-)menus for our DVD-Projects.

2cool wrote a guide about this, but it will only work with a big VOBfile. (Guide is not released I think :-) Thanks to 2cool for sending it to me :D )

It is good to know that the DVDAuthor is now faster. Thats cool. I don't know why I only use ReJig for muxing my DVDs. I think it is the best freeware DVDAuthor on the market.

Big THX to You Nic for it!

[Rombaldi]

Originally posted by Makira
@rombaldi: well, it's done! btw I accept donations! (see my homepage (http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/), which needs updating, for a paypal link) :D

here's the code: http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/M2VRequantiser_200104_cb.tgz

for normal usage it is better to turn it off, since changing brightness forces you to recompress every slice, even though sometime you'd be better off copying the original.

Anyway it works :)

@Makira

bloody hell! I've not the brilliance to do the compile, but I'll await this with open arms while one of the other resident genius make it available! Since the major use for this will be a straight brightness drop and not a recompress it should't look too shabby!

someone make a CL version of this so I can properly test it! Once the word spreads on this, you may well get more than a few from the Panasonic owners!

[Makira]

Originally posted by Rombaldi
bloody hell! I've not the brilliance to do the compile, but I'll await this with open arms while one of the other resident genius make it available! Since the major use for this will be a straight brightness drop and not a recompress it should't look too shabby!

http://www.info.polymtl.ca/~anmis/M2VRequantiser_200104_cb_win.tgz

You'll note something about not supposed to redistribute with the version of vc++ I have, well, that'll be fixed soon. I don't compile for windows often..

That also means I'll be able to post a windows exe when I request comments on updates.. It shouldn't be difficult keeping something that compiles on macos x, linux and windows, since it's mostly standard C.

The compiled executable only changes brightness, and will not recompress. Usage is:

m2vrequantiser.exe 0 0 size_of_input_m2v_in_bytes brigthness_delta input.m2v output.m2v

(the 2 zeros are ignored values)

<edit>
examples:
m2vrequantiser.exe 0 0 47638234 20 original.m2v brigher.m2v
m2vrequantiser.exe 0 0 47638234 -20 original.m2v darker.m2v
</edit>

[Amnon82]

Nic, I've a question about the DVDAuthor: Why have I in my multiplexed movies sometimes some picturehangs? I use Your DVDAuthor to multiplex MPV-files created by QCCE.DE (CCE) and the original AC3/DTS tracks.

The last movie I multiplexed was Pirates of the Caribian (POC). It has on the starts on some chapters litle picture hangs. I can see this more on ATI-Cards. On NVIDIA-Cards the hangs are not so long. I think the halftime as on ATI.

Then I multiplexed the same sources of POC with IFOEdit 0.96 and didn't got the picturehangs. What is going wrong?

I think it depends on the multiplexing of DVDAuthor. Don't get me wrong. Your DVDAuthor is better than IFOEdit in multiplexing cos of DTS.
You rewrite the DVDAuthor as written in Your Posts, so I think this will maybe fix this bug.

THX for going on with Your app. I hope the next version will come soon...