Problems searching in Movies

[marquito]

Hi!

I followed the exact steps in the Big3 Guide to copy a "Episode-DVD" and everything worked pretty well. After I updated the IFOs in the last step, i watched it in PowerDVD and everythig works fine EXCEPT when I try to search in a Movie with the search Bar, after a certain Point the Video just stops and returns to the main Menue.

Also on the bottom of the Videos there are a few "scrambled" lines (on the Monitor ca. a finger-thick). How can I remove those?

Thanks!

[Matthew]

You can't seek because the transfer VTS_TMAPTI option is not checked in IFOUpdate. You'll get a problem on standalones as well if you try random access. The guide is a little broken in that regard (IMO).

WIth that option enabled, if the original IFO is not big enough to hold the table from the authored IFO, then you'll get an error. Unless you use a newer IFOUpdate version, e.g. 0.78, and enable the adjust VTS_TMAPTI and ADMAP sizes option.

As for the garbled stuff down the bottom, is it on the original DVD? I had something like that recently on the left border, it's not noticeable on the TV because of overscan (edges of picture not displayed). That can be cropped and replaced with black using avisynth's "crop" and "addborders" commands. If it's not on the original DVD, I have no idea...

[jel]

i believe that the new version of ifoupdate (0.78) avaliable here (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=58897&perpage=20&pagenumber=2) should solve your seeking problems.
as for the degradation in your video....not sure...could be a number of issues. what was your bitrate that you encoded to?

edit
*SNAP* but as usual, a more informed post by matthew ;)

[marquito]

Thanks, searching works now after using the new ifoUpdate!
I don't have a SA Player so I don't know if it works there too.

Regarding the scrambled lines: they are on the original DVD too! (somtimes the answer is so simple...).
Now I have to find out, how to remove the scrambled lines with AviSynth. Am I right, that I have to change the AVS-Files right before the CCE-Encoding step?

[Matthew]

Yeah you have to edit the avs, add 2 lines:

Should look something like this:

LoadPlugin("H:\gahah\MPEG2Dec3dg.dll")
MPEG2source("H:\gaha\gaha.d2v")
Crop(XXX,XXX,XXX,XXX)
AddBorders(XXX,XXX,XXX,XXX)
ConvertToYUY2(interlaced=false)

Check avisynth.org (and/or do a search here) for what you need to input in place of the Xs. You may also want to have your crop a multiple of 16 pixels (and replace with equivalent borders). See this thread.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=68217

You won't get a stretched picture or anything as a result. To take an extreme example if you cropped half the movie and replaced it with black, the remaining area of the movie would still appear in exactly the same dimensions as the original. You just miss out on what's happening in the cropped part. You are unlikely to miss a few pixels at the bottom - they probably won't even display on your TV.