Title, Change and Last CD Picture Error

[Rassilon]

Hi All,
until recently all I did to run DVD2SVCD was to insert the CD, hit the CD Icon and "Rip and Convert" and away it went. I would also view the dvd and save a title image directly from the DVD.

Now when I select a "Title Picture", "ChangeCD pic", or "LastCD Picture" I get the following error from TMPGenc.

File "E:\Video Conversions\DVD2SVCD\LastCDPicture.bmp.avs" can not open, or unsupported.

I am using the default images that came with DVD2SVCD.

[Nick]

This may be a bug. I'm looking into it.

The problem seems to revolve around the ConvertToRGB line at the end of the Avisynth scripts.
It you open the 3 ***.bmp.avs files you mention in Notepad, remove the last line and resave they will then convert. Unfortunately when you crash recover from Video Encoding, DVD2SVCD rewrites the scripts with the last line back in.

I have tried editing the 3 scripts then flagging them Read Only but then when DVD2SVCD tries and fails to overwrite it halts with an error message.

The files need to be named the same as the avs's but with a .mpv extension instead of the .avs, and with the filename all in lower case. You could try the conversion again, clicking OK to the TMPGEnc Error messages until the movie conversion starts, then when bbMPEG fails (as it is unable to find the converted pictures) shut down DVD2SVCD. Then try converting the pictures manually in TMPG and recovering DVD2SVCD from Muxing and Cutting.

Alternatively you might want to try skipping the pictures for now :)

[Nick]

OK it seems to stem around your TMPGEnc version.
[EDIT - missed the easy solution, thx jsoto for pointing it out :) ]
It seems DVD2SVCD, when converting the pictures to RGB24, actually converts the pictures ti RGB32. Some versions of TMPGEnc do not like converting these pictures in RGB32.

Try changing the Advanced settings in the Encoder tab. Change the colour conversion to YUY2 and try again.

[Rassilon]

Originally posted by Nick
Try changing the Advanced settings in the Encoder tab. Change the colour conversion to YUY2 and try again.

The same error message came up :(

[Nick]

Could you post one of the avs scripts please?
eg titlepicture.bmp.avs

[Rassilon]

LoadPlugin("d:\PROGRA~1\DVD2SVCD\AVISYN~1.5PL\AVISYN~1.DLL")
Blackness(2)
AssumeFPS(25)
ConvertToYUY2
BicubicResize(480,576)
AvisynthBMP_Loader("E:\DVD2SVCD\Encoded","ChangeCDPicture.bmp")
BicubicResize(480,576)
AddBorders(112,0,112,0)
BicubicResize(480,576)

[Nick]

OK, that's an odd one.
I copied that script, edited it only to change the paths for the LoadPlugin and BMPLoader commands to the correct directories on my steup.

It loads up fine in both my versions of TMPGEnc (I have the free Beta12a and a paid up 2.51)

Try it manually. Launch TMPGEnc, cancel the wizard if it starts.
Choose Load Project from the file menu and select the project file from your default output folder. Then click on the browse button next to Video Source and load up the avs file for one of the pictures.

If it works, convert your pictures manually, saving them with n mpv extension as ES Video-only streams. Then whilst the main movie is encoding in DVD2SVCD, copy the manually created mpv files to your movie folder so bbMPEG finds them later.

If the avs won't load up manually, open it in notepad and add the line
ConverttoRGB24()
at the bottom and try manual conversion again.

I have no idea why picture conversion should suddenly stop working if it worked before. Perhaps a reinstall of the DVD2SVCD bundle and TMPGEnc might be helpful. You never know.

[Rassilon]

Originally posted by Nick

If the avs won't load up manually, open it in notepad and add the line
ConverttoRGB24()
at the bottom and try manual conversion again.

I tried this and it worked :D

I have no idea why picture conversion should suddenly stop working if it worked before. Perhaps a reinstall of the DVD2SVCD bundle and TMPGEnc might be helpful. You never know.

But this didn't :confused:

I am running 2.58.44.152

I Re installed both DVD2SVCD and TMPGenc and it all works now again :thanks: