@DVD2SVCD - RE moving to VDUB audio extraction/conversion on AVI2X in the new version

[Venom_IL]

Hi !

Regarding the following line in your future readme:

I have switched to VirtualDUB to extract and convert audio from AVI's to WAV. The good thing is that you can use any kind of audio in the AVI (and VBR shouldn't be a problem anymore either) as long as you have the proper Audio Codec installed.

First of all a trivial question - when you say VDUB do you mean VDUBMOD ?

In any case, wouldn't that mean lower audio quality ?
If I understand correctly, besweet will never be used in AVI2X (???)

I could always use decompress.exe (from avi2vcd.zip obtained here (http://home.cogeco.ca/~avi2vcd/) ) on an AVI to get it to PCM uncompressed audio format with no problems whatsoever, even with MP3 VBR (which I could then feed to D2S of course)... *IF* I didn't care about audio quality, but part of D2S's beauty is that it uses the best tool for the job at every step, in this case - besweet

Would it be possible to use the "regular" method for all currently supported audio formats (AC3, MP3-non VBR etc.) and only use vdub (or decompress.exe actually, I think that would be easier) for other audio formats ?

Please forgive me if I did not understand correctly, in which case I'd be grateful for an explanation of said line.

Lastly, it would be great if you could improve mpg support ( a related discussion with a specific problematic file I have uploaded for your convenience is here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=48036&perpage=20&pagenumber=2) ) , only when and if you have the time/will/urge of course :)

Thanks a lot in advance ,

Ohad

[dvd2svcd]

The question is irrelevant since I removed it again ;) (Besides, I always use the original VirtualDUB, I don't care much for all the modified versions)

[Venom_IL]

Great ! :cool:

It's also a good thing because I've been hearing reports of people failing to directly extract WAVS from AVI's (don't know about demuxing though) - in any case like I said D2S's current routine works perfectly.

Again, Switching to VD extraction (only for non supported audio tracks) could be a great idea for future versions - using VDMOD would ensure support for ogg as well.

However, IMHO mpg support is more important, so when/if you choose to work on one of the two, my vote goes to mpg :D

[Venom_IL]

Oh, and I almost forgot !

check out this neat VCD ini (http://members.lycos.co.uk/yosi123/avi2vcd.ini) I made, beats the hell of the one that comes in the D2S Package ;)

seriously, if you like it, maybe you could put it in the next package istead of the current vcd.ini

Also, the following 3 values are not kept in the INI and it would be cool if you could add them to the future ini structure

In conversion tab - deinterlacing method
In TMPGenc advanced settings under encoder tab - Use ReadAVS.dll
In bbMPEG advanced settings under bbMPEG tab - Startup delays: Pack
In subtitle tab, external subtitle font, subtitle script - it always forgets i set "hebrew" :p


so what, I'm a fanatic

[dvd2svcd]

Originally posted by Venom_IL
Oh, and I almost forgot !

check out this neat VCD ini (http://members.lycos.co.uk/yosi123/avi2vcd.ini) I made, beats the hell of the one that comes in the D2S Package ;)

seriously, if you like it, maybe you could put it in the next package istead of the current vcd.ini

Also, the following 3 values are not kept in the INI and it would be cool if you could add them to the future ini structure

In conversion tab - deinterlacing method
In TMPGenc advanced settings under encoder tab - Use ReadAVS.dll
In bbMPEG advanced settings under bbMPEG tab - Startup delays: Pack
In subtitle tab, external subtitle font, subtitle script - it always forgets i set "hebrew" :p


so what, I'm a fanatic

I'll look into it.

[Venom_IL]

Great, thanks ! :)